Managers in Suits and Managers in Uniforms: Sources and Outcomes of Occupational Stress
| Author | Paul E. Spector,Cary L. Cooper,Branko Lobnikar,Milan Pagon |
| DOI | 10.1350/ijps.2011.13.3.245 |
| Published date | 01 September 2011 |
| Date | 01 September 2011 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Managers in suits and managers in
uniforms: sources and outcomes of
occupational stress
Milan Pagon‡, Paul E. Spector†, Cary L. Cooper§and Branko Lobnikar¶
‡(Corresponding author) College of Business Studies, Al Ghurair University, PO Box 37374,
Dubai, UAE. Tel: +971561454714; Fax: +971 (0)4 4200224; email: milan.pagon@gmail.com
†Department of Psychology, PCD4118G, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620,
USA
§Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster LA1 4YK, UK
¶Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Kotnikova 8, 1000
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Submitted 5 February 2011; accepted 3 May 2011
Keywords: police, private sector, managers, stress, locus of control, work-
related values, individual differences, Central Europe
Milan Pagon
is Professor of Management at the
College of Business Studies, Al Ghurair Uni-
versity, Dubai. He received his ScD in Organisa-
tional Sciences (Human Resource Management)
from the University of Maribor, Slovenia, and his
PhD in Business Administration (Management/
Organisational Behaviour) from the University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA. He is the author and
co-author of several book chapters and numer-
ous journal articles in different journals, including
Academy of Management Journal, Journal of
Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior
and Human Decision Processes, Personnel
Psychology, Stress and Health, Applied Psycho-
logy: An International Review, and International
Journal of Police Science and Management. His
research interests include leadership compet-
encies, stress, and cross-cultural comparisons in
organisational behaviour.
Paul E. Spector
is Distinguished University
Professor of Industrial/Organisational (I/O)
psychology and the I/O doctoral programme
director at the University of South Florida, USA.
He received his PhD in industrial/organisational
psychology from the University of South Florida.
His more than 100 journal articles have appeared
in many journals, including Academy of Manage-
ment Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology,
Journal of Management, Journal of Organiza-
tional Behavior, Journal of Occupational and
Organizational Psychology, Journal of Vocational
Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human
Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and
Psychological Bulletin. At present he is the Asso-
ciate Editor for Point/Counterpoint for Journal of
Organizational Behavior. In 1991, the Institute for
Scientific Information listed him as one of the 50
highest impact contemporary researchers (out of
over 102,000) in psychology worldwide. His most
active interests are counterproductive behaviour
and violence at work and cross-cultural job
stress.
Cary L. Cooper
is Distinguished Professor of
Organisational Psychology and Health at the
Lancaster University Management School, UK.
In addition to being a recipient of numerous
international distinctions and awards, he holds
honorary doctorates from Heriot-Watt, Wolver-
hampton, Aston and Middlesex universities. Cary
Cooper is the editor of the Blackwell Encyclo-
pedia of Management, the Founding Editor of
the Journal of Organizational Behavior, co-Editor
International Journal of Police Science & Management Volume 13 Number 3
International Journal of Police
Science and Management,
Vol. 13 No. 3, 2011, pp. 211–222.
DOI: 10.1350/ijps.2011.13.3.245
Page 211
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