Mergers & acquisitions in practice : a state-of-art and future directions / Sir Cary L. Cooper, Shlomo Y. Tarba, Riikka M. Sarala, and Mohammad F. Ahammad -- Motives for european mergers and acquisitions : analysis of pre-merger press announcements and post-merger interviews / Agyenim Boateng,...

An economic recession can affect the aggregate well-being of a population. This highly regarded and timely book shows a significant increase in the mean levels of distress and dissatisfaction in the work place in recent years. -- In particular, increasing job demands, intrinsic job insecurity...

This timely Research Companion is essential reading to advance the understanding of healthy behaviours within working environments and to identify problems which can be the cause of illness. Containing both theoretical and empirical contributions written by distinguished academics working in...

This Companion brings together many leading scholars to address a wide range of topics in 38 chapters, across five levels of organizational analysis – including within-person, between-person (individual differences), relationships, groups, and the organization as a whole. Chapters tackle...

This authoritative book brings together many of the leading published articles in the field of workplace wellbeing and happiness. It highlights the costs of a lack of wellbeing at work, what research suggests are the sources of depleted and enhanced wellbeing, as well as happiness at work. It...

In earlier books in the Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk Series, Cary Cooper and Ron Burke have identified the role played by human frailties and organizational toxicity in influencing individual and family functioning, and satisfaction and performance, and both unit and...

High levels of psychological well-being amongst employees translate into good news for the organization, including lower sickness-absence levels, attraction and retention of talented people, and more satisfied customers, clients, or service users. People with higher levels of psychological...