Elgar Encyclopedia of Occupational Health Psychology

Book excerpt: Occupational Health Psychology has emerged as a vital new field in its own right in recent years and its key areas of focus are occupational stress, work wellbeing, and work-life balance. This Encyclopedia is the godfather of this new discipline, defining the diversity of its concepts, theories and methods. It will be the essential resource for scholars, practitioners and students for years to come. The scholarly field of occupational health psychology has emerged from the broad study of worker health and wellbeing, mixing concepts, theories and methods from occupational/organizational/business psychology and health psychology. Authoritative and comprehensive in scope, the Elgar Encyclopedia of Occupational Health Psychology offers definitions from job crafting, organizational justice, employee voice, workplace bullying, workplace health and wellbeing strategy, and interventions - to gig work, the four-day working week, remote and virtual work, entrepreneurship, technostress, and AI and Cobotics. This Encyclopedia is breaking new ground in helping to define this new field for psychologists across the globe. Key Features: 72 entries covering each of the central topics in occupational health psychology Each entry provides a definition, key association, future directions and readings as a fundamental starting point for future research. All entries written by experts on occupational health psychology from around the world.