Bøger af Cary L. Cooper

This book looks at the ways living through the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened our understanding of the crises people experience in their relationships with work. Leading experts explore burnout as an occupational phenomenon that arises through mismatches between workplace and individuals on the day-to-day patterns in work life.

Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions stands out from the competition due to its focus on three key characteristics: studies from scholars in different countries, with different research questions, relying on different theoretical perspective. Such a broad and inclusive approach to mergers and acquisitions is not easily replicated in academic journals, with much narrower mandates and metrics. The chapters published in this volume provide cutting edge ideas by leading scholars and help to inform mergers and acquisitions research around the world.Volume 20 of this annual series explores a range of issues relevant to a post-Covid world and the ensuing recession. These include creative ways to bridge the gaps between buyers and sellers, mitigating cross border acquisition uncertainties, M & A investment decision-making, as well as how customers experience an acquisition and whether merging firms perceive their customers as assets to trade or as stakeholders to engage.This book is of interest to scholars in strategic management, organization theory, and organizational behaviour who are studying questions around mergers and acquisitions. Doctoral students in particular will benefit from access to the diversity of research that can trigger new research questions and expanded research agendas.

This book presents a sound theoretical and empirical basis for understanding the evolving and changing nature of stress in contemporary organizations.

A historical account of workplace stress and what the research in the field of occupational stress tells us about the changing nature of work and what individuals and organizations can do about it to create more liveable environments.

Based upon interviews with individuals in high pressure positions, from business leaders to a bomb disposal expert, this book provides practical insight about how to identify, tackle and overcome any kind of stress.

Coping With Work Stress: A Review and Critique highlights the most up-to-date research relating to effective coping strategies of individuals and organizations and provides a series of invaluable "best practice" techniques for dealing with the growing epidemic of stress and lack of overall well-being at work.

Summarizes available research, and considers a range of factors that impact on change within employee relationships. This book addresses the issues of change within employee relationships resulting from the impact of factors such as: international competitive pressures; technological change; and changing individual expectations and behaviours.

Shows that the contribution that psychology can make to our understanding of the merger phenomena - how it affects organizational performance, and how it affects the managers and employees involved. Intended as a guide to successful organizational marriage, this work places emphasis on the issue of cultural compatibility.

This book takes a risk management approach to stress evaluation in the workplace, offering practical guidelines for the audit, assessment and mitigation of workplace stressors and providing a comprehensive source of theoretical and practical

Most teachers now find that they experience stress at some point during their careers. The findings of this report, commissioned by the NASUWT, examine the problem of teacher stress and offers some hope and advice for those who experience it.

Contracts in employment are of two kinds: the formal, written contract and the equally important, informal and unwritten psychological contract - how people think they should be treated. This text explores issues relating to these contracts and serves as a handbook for practicing managers.

This book is the second edition of Well-being: Productivity and Happiness at Work that shows how to improve well-being in organizations.

What are the financial and psychological costs of risky behaviour in business to the individuals concerned and their organizations? This book provides a perspective on addictive behaviours such as gambling, drug taking and even addiction to work; criminal behaviours such as theft and corruption; and, behaviours such as aggression and violence.

This series compliments the standard texts of OB and the more comprehensive, historical review volumes, by offering concise, critical and stimulating accounts of the main issues and developments in topics of current and ongoing importance in OB.