Interventions typically used to manage ‘stress’ at work and their effectiveness

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

10 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

03/05/2009

Category :

Business & market

Sub category :

Management

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Summary :

Introduction.
Part 1.
1. Typical SMI's: Definitions and issues.
2. Stress: Not an easy notion.
3. Stress management as an intentional activity.
Part 2.
1. Secondary interventions.
2. Tertiary interventions.
3. The Health and Safety Executive in the UK.
4. The evaluation research that has been carried out.
5. The effectiveness of typical SMI's and primary SMI's.
Part 3.
1. Stress theory and SMIs.
2. The radicalism of Briner and the position taken by Carver and Scheier.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

In addition to defining a number of relevant terms (e.g., the notion of stress management and those of intervention-typicality, -goals and -effectiveness), Part 1 of this essay sets the ground for a discussion of the relative usefulness of typical interventions amidst the plethora of methodological and, perhaps more seriously, theoretical problems that seem to characterize so much of stress research and stress intervention practice. This is followed in Part 2 by a more systematic review of evidence relevant to evaluating the effectiveness of a number of 'typical' interventions, including stress management training, employee assistance programmes and workplace counseling. Such interventions are compared with so-called primary interventions in order to gain a more complete view of their relative effectiveness. Part 3 addresses a number of more general theoretical issues as they relate to problems relevant to the derivation, implementation and evaluation of stress management interventions including those of direct interest to the present study. The essay concludes with a brief discussion of possible socio-political influences on stress phenomena and their study and explores briefly some of the implications of such more expansive approaches for intervention practice and research.