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Describes the increasing role of the profession as workplaces undergo rapid and radical changes, focusing on how to promote organizational health and on programs for organizational renewal. The topics include analyzing corporate belief systems and employee performance expectations, barriers and solutions to creating a family-friendly workplace, mastering workplace stress, the skills needed to move forward in a changing environment, and experiential training for organizational transformation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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• Contributors(p. vii)
• Preface(p. xi)
• Introduction A Bright Future for Organizational Health Psychology(p. xv)
• Part I Interventions to Promote Organizational Health(p. 1)
• Chapter 1. How to Evaluate People for Small- to Medium-Sized Growth Companies(p. 5)
• Chapter 2. Attitudinal Differentiation: Corporate Belief System Analysis and Employee Performance Expectations(p. 23)
• Chapter 3. Why Computerized Life-Style Assessment Is Good for Business(p. 35)
• Chapter 4. How to Gain Access to a Company as a Consultant(p. 43)
• Chapter 5. Reducing Procrastination in the Workplace(p. 55)
• Chapter 6. Creating the Family Friendly Workplace: Barriers and Solutions(p. 79)
• Chapter 7. How to Prevent Job Burnout in the Workplace(p. 101)
• Chapter 8. A Cognitive Perspective on Absenteeism(p. 125)
• Chapter 9. Changing People from Tender-Minded to Tough-Minded: A PATHWAY for Dealing with Chronic Pain(p. 139)
• Chapter 10. How to Master Workplace Stress(p. 157)
• Chapter 11. Wellness in the Workplace: A Fourfold Path(p. 173)
• Part II Programs for Organizational Renewal in a Changing Environment(p. 199)
• Chapter 12. Change at Work: Why It Hurts and What Employers Can Do about It(p. 203)
• Chapter 13. Resiliency: The Skills Needed to Move Forward in a Changing Environment(p. 219)
• Chapter 14. Experiential Training for Organizational Transformation(p. 239)
• Chapter 15. Organizational Renewal: Outcome Management--The Other Side of Process Management(p. 261)
• Name Index(p. 275)
• Subject Index(p. 285)

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Arguing for greater emphasis on organizational health, resulting from processes of organizational change, Klarreich says that "restructuring, downsizing, realignments, mergers, rightsizings and eventual reinvention" lead to fewer employees (middle managers in particular), workload increase, and working "smarter" but harder. This results in increased anger, frustration, impatience, and interpersonal conflict, and "people seem to be running flat out in an attempt to do their work, keep their jobs, and 'look good' in the process." Nineteen contributors respond to the editor's challenge, presenting 11 interventions to promote organizational health and four papers on organizational renewal. For the most part, authors justify their arguments on prescriptive and explanatory grounds ("It makes good sense to . . .") rather than support them empirically. Though called a "handbook," this volume lacks a comprehensive conceptual framework. With a few exceptions, it fails to formulate empirically supported procedures and strategies as one would expect from a handbook; instead, it presents current thinking, based on the experience of 19 professionals committed to building healthier organizations. Laudable though that may be, this reviewer was hoping for a treatise on organizational health that acknowledged and discussed the morality of downsizing and went beyond mention of "a severance package" and "funds for retraining" in discussing job elimination. Professional collections only. D. Sydiaha emeritus, University of Saskatchewan

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Sam Klarreich, Ph.D., C. Psych., president of The Berkeley Centre for Effectiveness and The Centre for Rational-Emotive Therapy (Toronto), has a distinguished career that spans more than 20 years as a psychologist, author, advisor, and senior level consultant. Previous positions include chief psychologist at a major Toronto hospital, director of an employee assistance program at a multi-national oil company, and vice-president for a national career consulting firm. He has provided service and counsel to leaders in numerous private and public sector organizations across the country. As well as receiving many awards and honors and being a popular international speaker, he has written numerous professional papers, timely articles in major newspapers and business magazines on a variety of health related topics and has 5 books to his credit.