Sunday, December 21, 2008

Theories of Organizational Stress or Hornbook on Trusts

Theories of Organizational Stress

Author: Cary L Cooper

The costs of stress in the workplace in most of the developed and developing world have risen, according to recent statistics revealing an increase in the number of sick days taken, labor turnover, employee burnout, premature death and decreased productivity. In one volume, this book provides all the major theories of organizational stress from the leading researchers and writers in the field.



Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
Contributors
Introduction1
1An Organizational Psychology Meta-Model of Occupational Stress6
2Person-Environment Fit Theory28
3A Multidimensional Theory of Burnout68
4Stress and the Sojourner86
5A Cybernetic Theory of Organizational Stress101
6Cybernetic Theory of Stress, Coping, and Well-Being122
7A Control Theory of the Job Stress Process153
8Stressors, Innovation, and Personal Initiative170
9Adverse Health Effects of Effort-Reward Imbalance at Work190
10Job Characteristics in a Theoretical and Practical Health Context205
11The Ethological Theory of Stress220
12The Theory of Preventive Stress Management in Organizations246
Index269

Book review: Culture and Public Action or xito comercial

Hornbook on Trusts

Author: George Taylor Bogert

Creation of Express Trusts; Trust Intent; Formalities; Conveyancing; Subject Matter; Trustee; Creation of Private Express Trusts; The Beneficiary; The Creation of Private Trusts; Purposes; Restrictions on Settlor; Charitable Trusts; Origin of Resulting Trusts; Creation of Constructive Trusts; Powers of the Trustee; Duties of the Trustee; Possession and Protection; Investments; Receipts and Payments; Principle and Income; Liabilities From Contracts, Torts and Property Ownership; Sales, Mortgages and Leases by Trustee; Accounting and Compensation; Alteration or Termination of the Trust; Remedies of Beneficiaries Under Trusts; Liabilities of Trustee and Third Persons; Tracing the Trust Res; Bona Fide Purchaser Rule; Participation in a Breach; Barring of Remedies.



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