Theories of Organizational Stress

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.

• 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

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