Job control and worker health : Sauter, S.L., Hurrell J.J., and Cooper, C.L. (Eds) John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1989, 311 pp

Abstract

Part 1 Effect of job control on worker health - a look at the evidence: worker control and well-being - a review of research in the workplace, Daniel C.Ganster does job control control job stress?, Susan E.Jackson control, collectivity and the psychosocial work environment, Jeffrey V.Johnson Swedish research on job control, stress and health, Gunnar Aronsson NIOSH studies of control and worker well-being - moderating effects of job control on health complaints in office work, Steven L.Sauter - control, job demands and job satisfaction, Joseph J.Hurrell Jr and Margaret Anne McLaney. Part 2 Theoretical and methodological issues: theoretical models of control and health, Michael Frese control in the workplace and its health-related aspects, Robert Karasek an epidemiological perspective on the role of control in health, Stanislav V.Kasl psychophysiological mechanisms relating control, coping and health, Andrew Steptoe stress, control, worry prescriptions and the implications for health at work - a psychological model, Shirley Fisher when to whistle while you work - towards a cognititve social learning approach to coping and health, Suzanne M.Miller and Adina Birnbaum. Part 3 Control problems and solutions in modern work: high performance - new boundaries of acceptability in worker control, David A.Buchanan electronic monitoring at the workplace - implications for employee control and job stress, Michael J.Smith and Benjamin C.Amick III semi-autonomous work groups and worker control, Pentti Seppala.