1st Edition
Worker Voices and Psychological Health Pressures in the Modern Workplace
Table of contents
Section one: The evolution of jobs
Chapter one: A short, selective history of work and jobs
Section two: Psychological wellbeing and work
Chapter two: What is psychological wellbeing?
Chapter three: Work and its consequences
Chapter four: Leadership, wellbeing, sickness-absence, presenteeism and return to work
Chapter five: Interventions to improve mental health at work (changing workers or changing work)
Section three: Jobs and workers’ voices
Chapter six: Job categories for study
Chapter seven: Managers, directors and senior officials
Chapter eight: Professional occupations
Chapter nine: Associate professionals
Chapter ten: Administrative and secretarial
Chapter 11: Skilled trades and occupations
Chapter 12: Caring, leisure and other service occupations
Chapter 13: Sales and customer service
Chapter 14: Process, plant and machine operatives
Chapter 15: Elementary occupations
Chapter 16: Future jobs
Biography
Professor Ivan Robertson is Emeritus Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology at the University of Manchester and co-founder of Robertson Cooper Ltd. He has been responsible for over 40 books and has worked as a practitioner across all sectors of the economy and across the world.
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