VALERIE SUTHERLAND is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, currently working as an independent Consultant in Alberta, Canada. She was previously Director of the Centre for Business Psychology, Manchester School of Management, UMIST, UK. - CARY COOPER is BUPA Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Manchester School of Management, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and President of the British Academy of Management. His is author of over 80 books, a frequent contributor to the national and international press and is widely regarded as Europe's leading stress management expert.

• Change and the Need for Change Stress and the Law What is Stress? The Nature of Stress: Organizational Hot Spots Stress and New Technology Conducting a Stress Audit Options for the Management of Stress: An Organizational Approach

'Professor Cary Cooper...has done an excellent job of collating findings over the past five decades. Evidence of this is the good chapter describing legal cases in which staff have sued their employers for exposing them to stressful situations.' - Supply Management 'This is a book that I shall certainly be using more than once. It should be read and re-read by those managers and practitioners who determine policy and develop the organisational processes that will allow us to function in an acceptable working environment. It is an excellent book looking at stress management from the right perspective.' - Strategy 'This book not only examines what stress is, but underlines some of the ways it can be combatted and prevented. An insightful evaluation, which is of great use in today's stressful working environment, it will strike a cord with everyone.' - Business Age