The Stress-Reduction Pyramid: A Guide to Managing the Greatest Threat to Employee Health and Productivity
Publisher: Thomas O. Davenport
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 1732053715
ISBN 13: 978-1732053717
Business leaders identify workplace stress as the number one risk to employee health and productivity. Researchers at Harvard and Stanford estimate that workplace stress contributes to at least 120,000 deaths each year and accounts for as much as 8% of annual health care costs in the U.S.
The Stress-Reduction Pyramid: A Guide to Managing the Greatest Threat to Employee Health and Productivity describes practical actions managers, executive leaders and human resource professionals can take to reduce and transform unhealthy stress at work. The book lays out how organizations can:
- Diagnose the underlying causes of stress and implement effective solutions
- Manage culture to create a more challenging, gratifying and supportive work environment
- Structure jobs to maximize employee energy and minimize damaging stress
- Help employees deal with stressful financial burdens
- Take a pragmatic approach to boosting employee resilience
- Provide readily available and effective care for those with stress-related health issues.
The Stress-Reduction Pyramid is a detailed resource for leaders who know that recognizing and responding to the causes of stress at work is critical to fostering employee engagement and productivity and reducing health care costs.
Author Biography
Tom Davenport has had more than 30 years of consulting experience with Willis Towers Watson, a global human resources consulting firm. He provides advice on human capital strategy, manager effectiveness and rewards research to clients in a range of industry sectors, including technology, financial services, health care, consumer products, retail and energy.Tom is the author of two other books: Human Capital: What It Is and Why People Invest It and Manager Redefined: The Competitive Advantage in the Middle of Your Organization (coauthored with Stephen D. Harding).