Includes bibliographical references and index.

An organizational psychology meta-model of occupational stress / Terry Beehr -- Person-environment fit theory / Jeffrey R. Edwards, Robert D. Caplan, and R. Van Harrison -- A multidimensional theory of burnout / Christina Maslach -- Stress and the sojourner / Ellen I. Shupe and Joseph E. McGrath -- A cybernetic theory of organizational stress / Thomas G. Cummings and Cary L. Cooper -- Cybernetic theory of stress, coping, and well-being / Jeffrey R. Edwards -- A control theory of job stress process / Paul E. Spector -- Stressors, innovation, and personal initiative / Doris Fay, Sabine Sonnentag, and Michael Frese -- Adverse health effects of effort-reward imbalance at work / Johannes Siegrist -- Job characteristics in a theoretical and practical health context / T�ores Theorell -- The ethological theory of stress / Marc Schabracq -- The theory of preventive stress management in organizations / Jonathan D. Quick, James Campbell Quick, and Debra L. Nelson.

This book, in one volume, provides all the major theories of organizational stress from the leading researchers and writers in the field. It is a guide to identifying the sources of pressures in jobs and the workplace so that we may be able to intervene to change and manage the growing problem of organizational stress.