Stress Management and Interventions

While eliminating stress is neither possible nor desirable, given eustress can support productivity and creativity, unhealthy levels of stress (distress) take a toll on employees personally and professionally and can negatively impact the overall health and performance of an organization. To ensure happy, healthy, and engaged employees, stress management in the workplace is therefore essential.

Organizations can use many strategies, techniques, and protocols to help to create conditions that lead to lower stress environments and help employees in combating stress. Such interventions can adopt different approaches, theoretical models, and tools, and this richness offers up research opportunities to explore their value and impact.

Keywords: stress; management; performance; creativity; employees; talent; recruiting  

Dear Colleagues,

What can be done to reduce work-related stress? What conditions and remedies can be used to tackle it? How can managers support employees participate in health promotion efforts for the benefit of all concerned?

This Special Issue seeks papers that advance insights into how organizations can assist in combating stress in ways that benefit both the employees involved and the organization itself.

We welcome papers that bring together international researchers from different theoretical and methodological perspectives, from both individual/organizational and cognitive standpoints, in order to explore important actions that employees and managers can take in order to provide a more desirable work environment and improve employees’ handling of stress at work. We hope that this Special Issue will facilitate a diverse range of research into how controlling one’s perspectives of events can also be an effective strategy in managing stress in a healthy way.

Prof. Dr. Tiziana Ramaci
Dr. Massimiliano Barattucci
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shakil Ahmad
Guest Editors

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• stress management programs
• stress management policies
• stress management interventions
• stress, health, and illness
• stress, ergonomics, and productivity
• time management
• workload management
• team building
• support
• communication
• work group cohesiveness
• leaving the organization
• turnover
• cope with stress
• physical exercise and fatigue
• body’s physical reaction
• engagement
• counterproductive behavior
• health promotion programs
• personnel selection and placement
• skills training
• job redesign
• empowerment
• developing self-awareness techniques
• developing outside interests
• counseling programs
• increased participation and personal control
• working from home and the hybrid office
• managing work–life boundaries