Preventing Stress, Improving Productivity: European Case-Studies in the Workplace

Changing the workplace to help prevent stress is much more cost-effective in the long term than treating employees for the effects of stress. But to date, there has been little guidance for employers who wish to implement such programs.Preventing Stress, ImprovingProductivitygathers together examples of best practice in the workplace across a range of countries and organizations and identifies the factors that are crucial for a stress reduction program to work, both in terms of employee well-being and from a financial point of view.

Sebastiano Bagnara, Multimedia Communication Laboratory, University of Siena, Italy. Alberto Baldasseroni, Service of Occupational Health, Health Company of Florence, Italy. Beate Beermann, Bundesanstalt fur Arbeitsschutz, Dortmund, Germany. Marc Buelens, Department of Organisational Behaviour, Vlerick School of Management, University of Gent, Belgium. Susan Cartwright, Manchester School of Management, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Theo Compernolle, Ponos Research Centre for Stress-Productivity and Health, Vlerick School of Management, University of Gent, Belgium/Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Cary Cooper, Manchester School of Management, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Hubert De Neve, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Belgium. Sabine Geurts, Department of Work and Organisational Psychology, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Luis Graca, National School of Public Health, Lisbon, Portugal. Robert Grundemann, TNO Work and Employment, Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. Irene Houtman, TNO Work and Employment, Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. Raija Kalimo, Department of Psychology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland. Michiel Kompier, Department of Work and Organisational Psychology, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Karl Kuhn, Bundesanstalt fur Arbeitsschutz, Dortmund, Germany. Paula Liukkonen, Department of Economics, University of Stockholm, Sweden. Ellis Lourijsen, TNO Work and Employment, Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. Bo Netterstrom, Clinic of Occupational Medicine, Hillerod Hospital, Hillerod, Denmark. Oronzo Parlangeli, Multimedia Communication Laboratory, University of Siena, Italy. Elisabeth Petsetaki, National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece. Steven Poelmans, Instituto Superior de Estudios Empresariales, University of Navarra, Spain. Rose Rafferty, Aer Rianta, Dublin, Ireland. Jef Rombouts, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Belgium. Stefano Taddei, Multimedia Communication Laboratory, University of Siena, Italy. Riccardo Tartaglia, Service of Occupational Health, Health Company of Florence, Italy. Tores Theorell, Divisions of Psychosocial Factors and Health, and of Occupational Health, Department of Public Health, Karolinska Institute/National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health, Stockholm, Sweden. Salla Toppinen, Department of Psychology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland. Kurt Wahlstedt, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, Uppsala/Swedish Foundation for Occupational Health and Safety among State Employees, Sweden. Lynne Whatmore, Manchester School of Management, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Richard Wynne, Work Research Centre Ltd., Dublin, Ireland.