Table of Contents

The Psychosocial Work Environment, Health, and Well-Being * Health, Productivity, and Work Life * The Psychosocial Work Environment * The Environment, the Worker, and Illness: Psychological and Physiological Linkages * Psychosocial Job Characteristics and Heart Disease Health, Productivity, and the Reconstruction of Working Life * Psychosocial Job Characteristics and Productivity * Integrating Worker Health Analysis and Job Redesign * The Organizational Context of Job Redesign for Health and Productivity * The Technological Context of Job Redesign * Job Design Strategies for Different Occupational Groups * Jobs of the Future and the Global Economy

About the Author

Robert Karasek is professor of work environment at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.Tores Theorell, a physician, is also a professor at Sweden's National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

Reviews

Karasek and Theorell, American and Swedish academicians respectively, analyze in their important work how heart disease, diabetes, and other stress-related ailments are generated by the way in which people are forced to work in their jobs. In this unfortunately difficult-to-read book, marked by turgid prose and awkward phrasing, the authors analyze various stress/work studies done over the years in America and Europe. In the second half of the book, they discuss various ways being developed to deal with the lack of worker participation in decision-making on the job. The authors mince no words in their conclusions that the well-being of employees can and must be enhanced through meaningful involvement in formulating the manner and mode of their tasks. For labor collections.-- Norman Lederer, UAW, Woodbridge, N.J.