Research on nearly 120 chief executive officers (CEOs) and their spouses from among The Times 1000 European companies is explored. The research found that many CEOs are showing increasing signs of stress, and that the main difficulties are associated with the job interfering with family and...

Executives today are bombarded on all sides by the need to adapt and keep up to date with constantly changing information and work. This need is necessitated by the rapid and often violent thrust of technological change. The information explosion and dynamic changes stimulated by the...

The growth in microelectronics and its likely impact in a wide variety of industries in the near future offers us a great opportunity not only in becoming more productive and efficient but also in improving the quality of life at work. In many European countries where this micro‐processing...

Over the last decade there has been a substantial increase in stress‐related illnesses in industry. The most bizarre and yet worrying form of this development has come in the form of what the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health term “mass psychogenic illness”. They...

By the start of the 1980s, over 42 per cent of the total work‐force in the UK were women, with 52 per cent of all women between the ages of 16 and 60 working either part‐time or full‐time, the highest proportion of working women of any country in the EEC. Over 60 per cent of these women...

Are top executives stronger and more resistant than the firm's managers they are leading? Is there a human cost in terms of psychic and psychosomatic trouble linked to the successful top manager? Until now, studies related to the top managers were confined to strictly neutral observations;...