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1. Introduction
2. Some statistics
3. Growing concern with psychological well-being
4. Format
5. What is psychological well-being
6. Job characteristics, psychological well-being
7. Policy and guidance
8. HSE management standards
9. Job characteristics and health
10. Assessing job characteristics
11. Lots of evidence - but little good evidence
12. Longitudinal study: Fergusson, Daniels, Jones
13. Recognising the person in the process
14. Work in 1960s and 1970s
15. Are 1970s models still applicable?
16. Work is now more flexible
17. Understanding personal goals
18. Affect and thought
19. Relationship between information and emotions
20. Beliefs: major predictions
21. Effects of beliefs on anxiety
22. Coping and self-regulation
23. Resources embedded in the work environment
24. Implications
25. Conclusion
26. References

Topics Covered

• Impact of well-being and stress
• Describing well-being
• Classic approaches to job design, stress and well-being
• Policy and management implications of classic approaches to job design
• Limitations of approaches to measurement
• Importance of individual differences
• Changing and fluid nature of work
• Goals, stress and well-being
• Cognition, stress and well-being
• Using job resources for coping and self-regulation
• Implications of cognitive and agency based approaches to jobs, stress and well-being for policy and practice

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• Human Resource Management

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation

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Publication History

• Published on December 30, 2012