Intervención y control de los factores psicosociales del estrés laboral : experiencias latinoamericanas

Intervención y control de los factores psicosociales del estrés laboral : experiencias latinoamericanas
Author: Arturo Juárez García
Publisher: Bonilla Artigas Editores
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2024-02-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 6078918842

En las últimas décadas, el tema de los factores psicosociales del trabajo ha cobrado gran relevancia por su importancia en la salud, el bienestar y el desarrollo de trabajadores, organizaciones y países en general. Organismos internacionales como la Organización Mundial de Salud (OMS) y la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) han declarado el tema como altamente prioritario. En Latinoamérica existe un despliegue de normas y leyes alrededor de temas como el acoso laboral y los factores de riesgo psicosocial; sin embargo, la aplicación de esta normativa sigue siendo incipiente y se ha centrado principalmente en la evaluación de estos factores, pero poco o nada en medidas específicas de mitigación y seguimiento para una eficaz prevención e intervención. Asimismo, los programas de intervención que se realizan en grandes empresas son guardados como secretos industriales de los que se desconoce su verdadera eficacia y validez científica, sin mencionar la charlatanería que lamentablemente ocurre en el mundo de la consultoría. En este contexto surge la iniciativa de esta obra cuyo propósito es dar a conocer el estado del arte en temas selectos de intervención psicosocial en el trabajo y, sobre todo, compartir experiencias de intervención aplicadas en distintas organizaciones latinoamericanas que incluyen: sector público, centros de salud, centros educativos, centros de asistencia, empresas privadas de la industria farmacéutica y del sector minero, supermercados, museos y organizaciones de economía solidaria, entre otros. Las reflexiones y pesquisas mostradas en el texto combinan la experiencia aplicada y el enfoque científico de sus coautores, desde ocho naciones latinoamericanas: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México, Perú, Puerto Rico y Venezuela.

Theories of Organizational Stress

Theories of Organizational Stress
Author: Cary L. Cooper
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1998-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0191584703

During the past two decades, the nature of work has changed dramatically, as more and more organizations downsize, outsource and move toward short-term contracts, part-time working and teleworking. The costs of stress in the workplace in most of the developed and developing world have risen accordingly in terms of increased sickness absence, labour turnover, burnout, premature death and decreased productivity. This book, in one volume, provides all the major theories of organizational stress from the leading researchers and writers in the field. It is a guide to identifying the sources of pressures in jobs and the workplace so that we may be able to intervene to change and manage the growing problem of organizational stress.

The Science of Occupational Health

The Science of Occupational Health
Author: Ulf Lundberg
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2010-12-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781405199148

The Science of Occupational Health is an evidence-based resource for all members of the health care team working with those affected by work-based stress - whether individuals suffering physical or psychological symptoms, or organizations trying to provide optimum conditions for healthy and productive employees. The authors offer a unique psychobiological perspective, discussing the modern workplace as a cause of stimulation and well-being, as well as of distress and illness. They provide a rigorous but highly accessible scientific account of the effects that stress has on mind and body, with key chapters on 'Responses to Stress', 'Stress-Related Health Problems', and 'Stress Hormones at Work'. This book offers the reader practical guidance on health promotion and preventive strategies at both individual and organizational levels. It concludes with a discussion of present occupational conditions around the world, and predictions of likely trends in the future.

Historical and Current Perspectives on Stress and Health

Historical and Current Perspectives on Stress and Health
Author: Pamela L. Perrewe
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780762309702

The papers in this collection cover diverse disciplines in examining approaches to improve job stress research. The contributors explore historical and current perspectives on stress and its impact on health.

Mental Health and Disasters

Mental Health and Disasters
Author: Yuval Neria
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2009-07-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0521883873

A reference on mental health and disasters, focused on the full spectrum of psychopathologies associated with many different types of disasters.

Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster

Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster
Author: Robert J. Ursano
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1995-08-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780521556439

The aims of this book are twofold: to improve understanding of the human experience of trauma, whether at the level of the individual or the community, and to help those who are its victims. The range of issues covered is impressive, from the biological basis of post-traumatic stress reactions, through practical strategies for prevention and treatment, to the psychosocial and fictional construction of terror. Wherever possible the editors have sought to impart understanding, order, and predictability to the experience of trauma and disasters in the belief that the way to recovery is through the mastery of chaotic events. This book will serve and inform clinicians, administrators and research workers in psychiatry, psychology, public health and related areas.

Academic Motherhood

Academic Motherhood
Author: Kelly Ward
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2012-08-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813553210

Academic Motherhood tells the story of over one hundred women who are both professors and mothers and examines how they navigated their professional lives at different career stages. Kelly Ward and Lisa Wolf-Wendel base their findings on a longitudinal study that asks how women faculty on the tenure track manage work and family in their early careers (pre-tenure) when their children are young (under the age of five), and then again in mid-career (post-tenure) when their children are older. The women studied work in a range of institutional settings—research universities, comprehensive universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges—and in a variety of disciplines, including the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. Much of the existing literature on balancing work and family presents a pessimistic view and offers cautionary tales of what to avoid and how to avoid it. In contrast, the goal of Academic Motherhood is to help tenure track faculty and the institutions at which they are employed “make it work.” Writing for administrators, prospective and current faculty as well as scholars, Ward and Wolf-Wendel bring an element of hope and optimism to the topic of work and family in academe. They provide insight and policy recommendations that support faculty with children and offer mechanisms for problem-solving at personal, departmental, institutional, and national levels.

Ethics Consultation

Ethics Consultation
Author: Mark P. Aulisio
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2003-05-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780801871658

In the clinical setting, questions of medical ethics raise a host of perplexing problems, often complicated by conflicting perspectives and the need to make immediate decisions. In this volume, bioethicists and physicians provide a nuanced, in-depth approach to the difficult issues involved in bioethics consultation. Addressing the needs of researchers, clinicians, and other health professionals on the front lines of bioethics practice, the contributors focus primarily on practical concerns—whether ethics consultation is best done by individuals, teams, or committees; how an ethics consult service should be structured; the need for institutional support; and techniques and programs for educating and training staff—without neglecting more theoretical considerations, such as the importance of character or the viability of organizational ethics.