The Tacit Mode or Organizational Stress

The Tacit Mode (SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought): Michael Polanyi's Postmodern Philosophy

Author: Jerry H Gill

The Tacit Mode exposes and explores the central insights in Michael Polanyi's major works. It focuses on his epistemological insights concerning tacit knowing, and explores their ramifications for philosophy, science, art, language, political theory, and religion. The notion of tacit knowledge reconstructs the modern concept of objectivity while avoiding the self-stultifying effects of "deconstructivist" postmodernism and puts Polanyi on the cutting edge of contemporary philosophy.

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Organizational Stress: A Review and Critique of Theory, Research, and Applications

Author: Philip J Dew

To the individual whose health or happiness has been ravaged by an inability to cope with the effects of job-related stress, the costs involved are clear. But what price do organizations and nations pay for a poor fit between people and their work environments? Only recently has stress been seen as a contributory factor to the productivity and health costs of companies and countries but as studies of stress-related illnesses and deaths show, stress imposes a high cost on individual health and well-being as well as organizational productivity.

This book examines stress in organizational contexts. The authors review the sources and outcomes of job-related stress, the methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress, along with the strategies that might be used by individuals and organizations to confront stress and its associated problems. One chapter is devoted to examining an extreme form of occupational stress -- burnout, which has been found to have severe consequences for individuals and their organizations. The book closes with a discussion of scenarios for jobs and work in the new millennium, and the potential sources of stress that these scenarios may generate

The book is a comprehensive, thought-provoking resource for Ph.D. students, academics, and other professionals working to minimize or eliminate the sources of stress in the workplace.

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Examines stress in organizational contexts, reviewing the sources and outcomes of job-related stress and addressing methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress. Discussion also includes strategies that might be used by individuals and organizations to confront stress and its associated problems (an entire chapter is devoted to burnout, that extreme form of occupational stress). A final chapter discusses scenarios for jobs and work in the future and potential future sources of stress. Cooper teaches organizational psychology and health at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology United Kingdom. Other authors teach organizational behavior and psychology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Introduction to the Series
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	What Is Stress?	1
2	Job-Related Sources of Strain	27
3	Assessing Job-Related Strains	61
4	A Special Form of Strain: Job-Related Burnout	79
5	Moderators of Stressor-Strain Relationships	117
6	Coping With Job Stress	159
7	Organizational Interventions	187
8	Methodological Issues in Job Stress Research	211
9	The Changing Nature of Work: Implications for Stress Research	233
	Index	255
	About the Authors	269