With the dramatic changes in the nature of work since the 1980s, the costs of stress in the workplace have risen in most of the developed and developing world, in terms of sickness absence, burnout and labour turnover. This text draws together the major theories of organizational stress.

Introduction ; 1. An Organizational Psychology Meta-Model of Occupational Stress ; 2. Person-Environment Fit Theory ; 3. A Multidimensional Theory of Burnout ; 4. Stress and the Sojourner ; 5. A Cybernetic Theory of Organizational Stress ; 6. Cybernetic Theory of Stress, Coping, and Well-Being ; 7. A Control Theory of the Job Stress Process ; 8. Stressors, Innovation, and Personal Initiative ; 9. Adverse Health Effects of Effort-Reward Imbalance at Work ; 10. Job Characteristics in a Theoretical and Practical Health Context ; 11. The Ethological Theory of Stress ; 12. The Theory of Preventive Stress Management in Organizations

`Good research needs to be theoretically driven as well as methodologically sophisticated, and this book can certainly help with the former requirement.' Adrian Furnham, THES 24/3/00. `Cooper has become exceptionally well connected, and he clearly knows all the world's leading researchers.' Adrian Furnham, THES 24/3/00.

Unique presentation in one volume of all the major theories of organizational stress Contributors are all leading international researchers and writers in the field Includes assessments of burnout, person-environment fit theory, cybernetic theory of stress, and the theory of preventative stress management

Cary L. Cooper is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behaviour (Wiley & Sons) and is also on the Editorial Board of many other journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, British Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Leadership and Organization Development Journal, and the Employee Rights and Responsibility Journal. He is a contributor to many national broadsheet newspapers and appears regularly on British radio and TV. Professor Cooper is Chair of the British Academy of Management Fellowship Committee; former Chair of Alcohol Concern's commission on a National Strategy for Training in Alcohol Work; and Chair of the Higher Education Funding Council's Research Assessment Exercise for all UK Business and Management Schools.

Unique presentation in one volume of all the major theories of organizational stress Contributors are all leading international researchers and writers in the field Includes assessments of burnout, person-environment fit theory, cybernetic theory of stress, and the theory of preventative stress management