The occupational stress is one of the major problems of the western industrial societies. The cost of stress amounts to 200 billions $, in other words 10 times the cost of the annual strikes or the global amount of the 500 companies profits listed by Fortune Magazine. The current research is the...

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;...