Foreword - Cary L Cooper
Preface
Introduction - D M Pestonjee and Satish Pandey
The Neuropsychology of Stress - Jamuna Rajeshwaran and Cathelyn N
Bennet
I: OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AND BURNOUT
Learned Helplessness and Organizational Role Stress - Fakir Mohan
Sahoo
Role Stress among Varied Occupational Groups - Parvaiz Talib and
Irfana Rashid
Executive Burnout: Prediction & Prevention through HR Interventions
- Radha R Sharma
Stress in Extreme Conditions: A Military Perspective - Updesh
Kumar, Vijay Prakash and Manas Mandal
II: WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT AND STRESS
Work-Family Conflict in India: Test of a Causal Model - Ujvala
Rajadhyaksha and Kamla Ramadoss
Work Stress, Work-Family Conflict, and Health: A Multilevel
Perspective - Kamla Ramadoss
Gender Issues in Work & Stress - Shubhra P Gaur and Shikha S
Jain
III: POSITIVE MANAGEMENT OF STRESS
Coping with Stress - Paulomi Sudhir and Arathi Taksal
Flourishing at Work - Seema Mehrotra and Ravikesh Tripathi
IV: STRESS AND SPIRITUALITY
Existential Rhythm, Spiritual Synergy, and Spiritual Immunity:
Spiritual Approaches to Stress Management - Akbar Husain
Managing Constructive and Destructive Emotions: Indian Psycho-
spiritual Perspective - Mala Sinha
Vipasana Meditation Reduces Stress and Strain: An Empirical Study -
D Gopalakrishana
Methodological Issues in Stress Research: Challenges, Concerns, and
Directions - Satish Pandey, Shubhra P Gaur and D M Pestonjee
Epilogue: The Road Ahead - Satish Pandey and D M Pestonjee
Index
Satish Pandey, PhD, is currently working with School of Petroleum
Management (SPM), Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University,
Gandhinagar, as Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior and
HRM area, since August 2007. He has done PhD in Psychology from
Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar (Uttarakhand), in 1995. He
has around 16 years’ teaching and research experience at various
institutions. Prior to joining SPM, he has worked with reputed
institutions like Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad
(MICA), Nirma Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Institute of
Banking Personnel Selection, Mumbai (IBPS), and Birla Institute of
Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani. He has presented papers in
national and international academic conferences, and published
papers in refereed journals and edited books on topics related to
stress management, personality, organizational culture,
cross-cultural management, organizational turnaround,
organizational learning, and behavior change communication.
D M Pestonjee, PhD, is currently associated with School of
Petroleum Management, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University,
Gandhinagar, as GSPL Chair Professor since July 2009. He is also
associated with CEPT University, Ahmedabad, as Dean, Faculty of
Applied Management. He has served at eminent institutions like IIM,
Ahmedabad and Banaras Hindu University. He is a psychologist having
PhD in Industrial Psychology from the Aligarh Muslim University and
he was conferred the D.Litt. (Honoris Causa) by the Banaras Hindu
University in April 2003. In November, 2000, he was conferred the
title of Honorary Professor of the Albert Schweitzer International
University, Geneva (Switzerland). He was awarded the Albert
Schweitzer Medal for Science and Peace in April 2004. He has over
four decades of teaching and research experience. Among his better
known works are: Organization Structure and Job Attitudes (1973),
Behavioral Processes in Organization (1981), Second Handbook of
Psychological and Social Instruments (1988), Third Handbook of
Psychological and Social Instruments (1997), Studies in
Organizational Roles and Stress and Coping (1997), Studies in
Stress and Its Management (1999), and the celebrated Stress and
Coping: The Indian Experience (1992, 2002).
While most stress theories originate in Western countries, this
book is based on research, conducted in India, and was written by
prominent Indian scholars, working in a variety of academic and
business organizations.
*Alexandre Ardichvili*
This book addresses a powerful issue that spans two centuries and
offers four blended strengths. All and all, an excellent volume
with the right balance in the correct context.
*James Campbell (Jim) Quick*
Pestonjee and Pandey provide a thoughtful and relevant insight into
the complex issue of occupational stress within the Indian
context.
*Professor Paula Brough*
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