Stress and the Manager

Karl Albrecht

• Publisher: Touchstone
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780671628239
• eBook ISBN: 9781451602692
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

Ours is a fast paced world. The need to help ourselves and other professional people manage stress has never been greater. This book pioneered the wave of business interest in stress management, based on Karl Albrecht's original work with stress management training. Use Stress and the Manager as your own personal guide to managing stress, and as a resource for your managers in training programs on personal effectiveness and stress management. It covers the basic definition of stress, how it effects the body, knowing when stress is harmful and when it is not, and how to manage your life, work, and activities to keep stress within your comfort zone. Also covers techniques for managing that can help others control their stress levels. Dr. Hans Selye, father of the medical theory of stress, says, "I would not hesitate to support this book and will give it a place of prominence in the library of our International Institute of Stress, for all those concerned with management." Provide a copy of Stress and the Manager to every one of your managers and team leaders.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Foreword
• Contents
• 1 Stress: The Twentieth-Century Disease
• 2 The Physiology of Stress
• 3 How People Stress Themselves
• 4 Stress as a Management Problem
• 5 Stress and the Quality of Working Life
• 6 Stress-Reduction Training: A New Concept in Human Resources Development
• 7 How to Keep Your Own Stress Level Down
• 8 Redesigning Your Life Style
• 9 How to Manage for High Performance and Low Stress
• 10 What Top Management Can Do About Stress
• Appendix
• Index