Stress and Quality of Working Life

A volume in Stress and Quality of Working LifeSeries Editors Ana Maria Rossi International Stress Management AssociationJames Campbell (Jim) Quick The University of Texas at Arlingtonand Pamela L. Perrewé Florida State UniversityThis book offers twelve chapters organized into three major sections that address occupational stress andquality of working life. The authors are an internationally renowned team of scholar-research-practitionerswho are grounded in applied science and clinical practice. Section 1 includes five chapters that address theorganizational and individual costs of occupational stress. The costs are humanitarian and economic; bothhuman suffering and financial burdens are important. Section 2 includes three chapters that focus on ways tomitigate the negative effects of occupational stress.We must help those who are suffering but we must do more by preventing distress where we can and building on positive strength factors where possible.Section 3 includes four chapters that examine and expand our understanding of work life quality. Work life quality is so important because of theeffects it has on workers and leaders as well as the spillover impact into families and communities.These twelve chapters highlight both core knowledge and new developments within the rapidly growing field of research on stress and the quality ofworking life. We believe this information can help to raise awareness of the causes and costs of occupational stress and poor quality of working life.Further this should provide a challenge some incentive and renewed insight for organizations in Brazil and elsewhere to begin thinking about and actingin ways that lead to a less stressful environment for their workforce.