Managing stress: Resources

Section seven of the Personnel Today Management Resources one stop guide to managing stress provides a bibliography and suggested further reading. Other sections.

Sourced information

  • Selye, H (1956). The Stress of Life. New York: McGraw Hill.

  • NIOSH (1999) Stress... at work, DHHS NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) publication no. 99-101, www.cdc.gov/niosh .

  • Giga, SI, Faragher, B, & Cooper, CL (2002) 'A Participative Approach to Developing Comprehensive Stress Management Interventions' in Occupational Health Psychology: Empowerment, Participation & Health at Work (pp72-75) European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Conference Proceedings Series (1473-0200).

  • Jordan, J, 'Let the Survey take the strain', Safety and Health Practitioner (October 2002).

  • Quick, JC and Cooper CL (2003) Fast Facts - Stress and Strain. Health Press Limited, Oxford.

  • The Scale of Occupational Stress: The Bristol Stress and Health at Work Study, HSE Contract Research Report 265, HSE Books (2000).

  • 'The Experience of Work-related Stress Across Occupations', Millet, C. (2005) Journal of Managerial Psychology, 20 No. 2 (2005).

  • CIPD Absence Survey 2004. www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/hrpract/absence

  • HSE (2002) Health and Safety Statistics Highlights 2001/2002, Misc472, 12/02, C40. www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/overpic.htm

  • Anthony, J Rucci, Stephen P Kirn, and Richard T Quinn. 'The Employee-Customer Profit Chain at Sears'. Harvard Business Review, January/February 1998.

  • Tasho, W, Jordan, J, Robertson, I; Establishing the business case for investing in stress prevention activities and evaluating their impact on sickness absence levels. HSE.

  • Cartwright S, and Cooper CL (2002): ASSET And Organisational Risk Assessment Tool. www.robertsoncooper.com

  • Jordan, J, et al: Beacons of Excellence in Stress Prevention, Contract Research Report 133, HSE Books (2003).

  • Five Steps to Risk Assessment, HSE Books (1999).

  • Bond, FW and Bunce, D (2000) 'Mediators of change in emotion-focused and problem-focused worksite stress management interventions', Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 5(1): 156-163.

  • Sadri, G, and Cooper, CL (1990) An Evaluation of Stress Counselling at Work. BPS Conference Paper, Windermere.

    Further reading

  • Cartwright, S, Cooper, C (1997) Managing Workplace Stress. Sage Publications (US).

  • Cooper, C, Clarke, S (2003) Managing the Risk of Workplace Stress: Health and Safety Hazards. Routledge.

  • Cooper, C, Kompier, M (1999) Preventing Stress, Improving Productivity: European Case Studies in the Workplace. Routledge.

  • Cooper, L, Williams, S (2002) Managing Workplace Stress: A Best Practice Blueprint (CBI Fast Track). John Wiley and Sons.

  • Gatto, RP (1993) Controlling Stress in the Workplace. Pfeiffer Wiley.

  • Jamdar, S, Byford, J (2003) Workplace Stress: Law and Practice. Law Society Publications.

  • Rodahl, K (1993) Stress Monitoring in the Workplace. CRC Press.

    Online

  • Downloads are available from the HSE: www.hse.gov.uk/stress/standards/downloads.htm


    Personnel Today Management Resources one stop guide on managing stress

    Section one: Introduction

    Section two: Legislation

    Section three: The business case for a stress prevention strategy

    Section four: What to do about workplace stress

    Section five: Developing a strategy

    Section six: Case studies

    Section seven: Resources

    Section eight: Jargon buster