Stress at Work in UK Law
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Stress at Work: Do Managers Really Count the Costs?
Organizations are being forced to contend with an increasingly diverse range of influential factors which have implications for their efficiency and effectiveness. Such factors are likely to create...
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Stress At Work: A Review and Theoretical Framework, II
In Part I of this paper we reported the main findings of a survey of the literature on occupational stress. We were particularly concerned to try to estimate the size of the problem of stress at wo...
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Line management competence: the key to preventing and reducing stress at work
Purpose: Work‐related stress is a major concern for employers, and the UK Health and Safety Executive has introduced Management Standards for employers to support them in managing stress in the wor...
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Stress at Work: The Beliefs and Experiences of Police Superintendents
Stress and stress-related illness are recognised as an occupational health hazard. There is an increasing number of police officers reporting mental illness as a result of stress at work. This repr...
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Help the HSE tackle stress at work.
...The Health and Safety Executive has launched a three-month consultation on proposals to reduce work-related stress. An explanation of the proposals is available on the HSE's website in video format and feedback can be delivered on-line. They are base......
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Tension seekers: the law requires employers to do what is reasonable when it comes to managing stress at work. This includes regular risk assessments, employee consultation and the implementation of agreed action plans. Ross Maynard explains the legal obligations and how best to meet them.
...When the Health and Safety at Work Act came into force back in 1974 the UK economy was dominated by heavy industry, so it's little wonder that this law is aimed primarily at manual workers and focuses entirely on the physical risks to health and safe......
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The Management of Stress
The topicality of ‘stress at work’ is largely due to a recognition of the harmful effects that the mental ill health of both management and workers can have on organizations. Attention in the USA h...... ... Technology Judi Marshall Demonstrator, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Introduction The topicality of 'stress at work' is largely due to a recognition of the harmful effects that the mental ill health of both man-agement and workers can have on organizations ... ...
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The Management of Stress in Organizations and the Personnel Initiative
The extent to which stress at work produces a degree of psychological impairment has become a central issue in the current debate on the quality of working life. Various analyses of alienation as a...... ... of Management Educational Methods, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Introduction The extent to which stress at work produces a degree of psy-chological impairment has become a central issue in the cur-rent debate on the quality of working life. Various analyses of ... ...
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Job Satisfaction Among Psychiatrists: An Urgent Area For Research
In most cases job satisfaction serves as a protective factor against burnout and the negative consequences of stress at work. Psychiatrists are reported to experience high prevalence of burnout yet...... ... factor against burnout and the negative consequences of stressat work. Psychiatrists are reported to experience high prevalence of burnout yet ... Key wordsBurnout, job satisfaction, psychiatrists, stressand stress) used in this paper need to be examined. Jobsatisfaction is defined as: ... ...
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Workplace Stress: An Organisational Approach
Following the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) proposal that the assessment and control cycle approach, already applied to physical health and safety risks, be adopted to manage stress at work, ...
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