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[...]... postgraduate student readership from psychology and medicine, and is of value to researchers interested in the main study areas of organizational health psychology We would like to express our sincere thanks to all contributors to this volume who very eagerly agreed to participate in this project and to cooperate during the period of its preparation Alexander-Stamatios G Antoniou Cary L Cooper PART I CONCEPTUALIZATION... Business Psychology Research Unit, UMIST, UK Toon W Taris, Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Lois E Tetrick, Professor and Director of Industrial Organizational Training, Department of Psychology, University of Houston, USA Töres Theorell, Professor, National Institute for Psychosocial Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden and Division for Psychosocial Factors... Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden and Division for Psychosocial Factors and Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden xii Contributors Roy L Payne, Professor, Institute of Work Psychology, Sheffield University, UK James Campbell Quick, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Department of Management, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Jonathan D Quick, World Health. .. a person manages to avoid the experience or to cope with the negative effects of stress Organizational health psychology has its share in contributing to the understanding of healthy behaviours within working environments and identifying parameters that can be the cause of health problems For example, stress in the workplace can contribute to individual and organizational skill effectiveness but it is... important factors which relate to workplace stress and affect the workers’ psychosomatic status as well as the organizations in terms of productivity and effectiveness Although organizational stress constitutes only one of the major topics in the field of organizational health psychology, the need to raise awareness of this problem is emphasized worldwide with the aim of adopting direct measures to protect... Contributors Adrian Furnham, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University College London, UK Bert Garssen, Helen Dowling Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands Héctor González-Ordi, Faculty of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Esther R Greenglass, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, York University, Canada Amanda Griffiths, Professor of Occupational Health Psychology, ... Thus there is a need to employ longitudinal research designs that can help to clarify the extent to which change management strategies and employees’ appraisals of the change event have any long-term implications for well-being It is also important to extend the range of outcome variables typically assessed in this type of organizational change research to include variables related to change implementation... Department of Periodontology, School of Dentistry, University of Athens, Greece Ashley Weinberg, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, School of Community, Health Sciences and Social Care, Salford University, UK Hugo Westerlund, National Institute for Psychosocial Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden and Division for Psychosocial Factors and Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden... appraisals to employee adjustment, efforts that both counter the belief that the situation is threatening and help to foster a sense of psychological readiness should serve to maintain employee well-being during the very common experience of organizational change In addition future research that explores the utility of stress-based models of employee adjustment to organizational change may help to clarify... Mental Health, Düsseldorf, Germany Diamanto Komboli, Associate Professor, Department of Periodontology, School of Dentistry, University of Athens, Greece Michiel A.J Kompier, Professor, Department of Work and Organisational Psychology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Contributors xi Janice Langan-Fox, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Australia Michael P Leiter, Centre for Organizational . w0 h0" alt="" RESEARCH COMPANION TO ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY NEW HORIZONS IN MANAGEMENT Series Editor: Cary L. Cooper, CBE, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster. from psychology and medi- cine, and is of value to researchers interested in the main study areas of organizational health psychology. We would like to express our sincere thanks to all contributors. Approach to Institutional Organization Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto Organizational Relationships in the Networking Age Edited by Willem Koot, Peter Leisink and Paul Verweel Research Companion to Organizational