ISBN:
9781409405535
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1409405532
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1409405532
Language:
English
Pages:
482 pages
Series Statement:
Psychological and behavioral aspects of risk series
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Social Science
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Negotiating
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Organizational behavior / Management
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Work environment / Psychological aspects
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Psychologie
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Wirtschaft
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Organizational behavior Management
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Work environment Psychological aspects
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Sexuelle Belästigung
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Mobbing
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Arbeitsplatz
;
Psychologie
;
Management
;
Arbeitspsychologie
;
Sucht
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Risikoverhalten
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Organisationsverhalten
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Arbeitsplatz
;
Organisationsverhalten
;
Management
;
Psychologie
;
Arbeitspsychologie
;
Risikoverhalten
;
Mobbing
;
Arbeitspsychologie
;
Risikoverhalten
;
Sexuelle Belästigung
;
Arbeitspsychologie
;
Sucht
Note:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; About the Editors; Acknowledgments; Part I Introduction; 1 Human Frailties and Toxic Organizations; Part II Human Frailties; 2 Work Hours, Work Intensity and Work Addiction: Weighing the Costs; 3 Understanding and Treating Workaholism: Setting the Stage for Successful Interventions; 4 Dangerous Concoctions: Alcohol, Employment and the Family; 5 Case Studies on Substance Abuse in the Workplace; Part III Toxic Organizations; 6 Discrimination as High Risk Behavior in the Workplace
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7 Psychologically Intimate, Romantic, and Sexually Intimate Relationships in the Workplace8 Sexual Harassment in the Workplace; 9 Job Demands, Resources and Psychological and Physical Well-being; 10 Tragic Duty; 11 The Nature and Outcomes of Destructive Leadership Behavior in Organizations; 12 Bullying in the Workplace; 13 Workplace Violence: The American Experience; 14 Managing the Risk of Workplace Accidents; 15 Biting the Hand that Feeds: The Employee Theft
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What are the financial and psychological costs of risky behavior in business to the individuals concerned and their organizations? Risky Business provides a perspective on addictive behaviors such as gambling, drug taking and even addiction to work; criminal behaviors such as theft and corruption; and behaviors such as aggression and violence. The authors then look at their implications to employee and organizational health within the context of the workplace environment; an environment that is often synonymous with psychological demands, stress, long hours, overwork and shortages of staff or
