Business Management

Stress, Wellness, and Performance Optimization
Promoting Sustainable Performance in the Workplace

Editors: Nilesh Thakre, PhD
B. Udaya Kumar Reddy, PhD

Stress, Wellness, and Performance Optimization

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: February 2024
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781774914069
E-Book ISBN: 9781003400172
Pages: 282pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 8 color and 5 b/w illustrations


Reviews
“A refreshing perspective on the familiar themes of stress, wellness, and performance. . . . The editors have brought together a team of globally accomplished authors to craft a practical and insightful read. . . . The chapters present a global perspective on strategies and interventions, offering valuable guidance for managing stress, enhancing performance, and nurturing well-being at an organizational level. Whether you‘re an academician seeking knowledge, an HR professional shaping the future workforce, a manager striving for excellence, a researcher delving into the complexities, or a student eager to learn, this book is a valuable resource. Within its pages, you‘ll discover practical insights from various viewpoints that can enrich your research endeavors, training initiatives, and day-to-day practices. I‘m pleased to recommend this book to anyone interested in the realms of industrial and organizational psychology, human behavior, and human resource management.”
—From the Foreword by Tikendra Pratap Deo, PhD, Chief Human Resource Officer, Insights and Data Global Business Line, DCX, Capgemini, Georgia, USA


This volume examines the intertwined concepts of stress, performance, and wellness and offers insight and strategies for providing support to individuals and organizations for effective performance optimization. The book considers new constructs in the area of organizational stress and provides a comprehensive review of wellness as well as performance aspects, offering unique perspectives and empirical findings.

The book first discusses organizational constraints and summarizes the many factors within workplaces that negate effective job performance (disruptions, lack of supplies, equipment, or training, etc.). It discusses well-being interventions, giving practical examples that combine theory and practice. The moderating effect of situation-specific support is considered as is the role of family and spirituality in creating resilience in leadership and organizations in different cultural contexts. New technology, such as wearable devices and computer-based software applications, are considered, highlighting their potential to provide employers with guidance as to how they can enable their employees to self-manage their wellness and productivity.

Other topics include anxiety habit loops —how they are formed, their debilitating impact, and various strategies that can break these dysfunctional habit loops and replace them with more functional and constructive habits, better leading to reduced anxiety, stronger mental well-being and resilience; measuring work-life balance and life satisfaction; the effects of perceived organizational justice and generational cohort on burnout and self-efficacy and the association between burnout and self-efficacy; and more.

CONTENTS:
Foreword by Dr. Tikendra Pratap Deo, Vice President and Global Head of Human Resource Officer, Insights and Data Global Business Line, DCX, Capgemini, USA

Preface

1. Organizational Constraints as a Source of Work Stress: A Multifaceted Perspective
Nathan A. Bowling

2. Managing Wellbeing at Work: Multi-Level Interventions to Promote Productive and Healthy Workplaces
Vince Pelzer, Karina Nielsen, Josefina Peláez Zuberbühler, Beate Muschalla, Rudolf Kubík, Elena Heber, and Marco De Angelis

3. Alleviating Stress Among Indian Higher Education Faculty: Moderating Effect of Support for Online Teaching
Chitra Dey and M. P Ganesh

4. Meaning-Making and Mental Health in Leadership and Organization through Family and Spiritual Resilience
Claude-Hélène Mayer

5. A Framework for Managing Employee Wellness with Wearables, Big Data, and Analytics
G. Freedman and C. Harris

6. Illegitimate Absence of Tasks: A New Concept of Offense to the Self
Marcus J. Fila, Aaron Franzen, and Norbert K. Semmer

7. Mental Health, the Pandemic, and a New Path Forward for Employee Wellbeing and Organizational Success
Ian Shakespeare and B. Udaya Kumar Reddy

8. Work-Life Balance and Life Satisfaction among Indian Employees in the Retail and Information Technology Sectors
Nilesh Thakre and Pooja Sharma

9. Understanding Concept of Health and Wellbeing: Baiga‘s Way of Life
Ranju Hasini Sahoo

10. Perceived Organizational Justice, Generational Cohort, Burnout, and Self-Efficacy among Indian Employees
Nilesh Thakre and Diksha Joshi

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Nilesh Thakre, PhD
Professor and Head of Psychology Department, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, India

Nilesh Thakre, PhD, is a Professor and Head of the Psychology Department at SNDT Women’s University (SNDTWU), Mumbai, India, as well as an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist. He worked as a member of the Management Council and a Senator at SNDTWU. He has 22 years of work experience in the area of corporate, academics, research and consultancy. He was a member of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)–WRC. He is working as a board of studies member at various universities. He has also worked in the research department of the Government of India and for NGOs. He has authored books, book chapters, and articles and has edited books on management and psychology. Dr. Thakre worked on research projects and serves as an external examiner at several universities in India. He has delivered invited lectures at many national and international conferences. Dr. Thakre’s credentials include a PhD (I/O Psy), UGC-NET, MA (I/O. Psy.), MA (Clin. Psy.), Master of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, Diploma in Training & Development (Dip TD) from ISTD, Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling Psychology, and Certificate in People Analytics and Evidence-Based Management Professional from the Mannheim Business School, Germany.

B. Udaya Kumar Reddy, PhD
Director (Training and Consultancy), Stress Management Lab Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad, India

B. Udaya Kumar Reddy, PhD, is currently working as Director (Training and Consultancy) at Stress Management Lab Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad, India. He has had two decades of postdoctoral experience in the areas of stress training, research, consultancy, and counseling. Dr. Reddy previously worked as Professor at the Dr. MCR HRD Institute, Government of A.P., Hyderabad, India. He also worked as Stress Management Consultant (Hon.) at Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit, Mediciti and Care Hospital, Hyderabad, India. Dr. Reddy is the founder of the International Stress Management Association (ISMA), India chapter (1999). He worked extensively in the area of organizational stress auditing, interventions, and stress management policy in the workplace. He has given keynote addresses and presented several papers at national and international conferences in the areas of stress and positive psychology in India and abroad. Dr. Reddy holds a masters’s degree in Philosophy, Psychology, and Management. He was awarded his PhD in the area of Stress Management.




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