"The only thing that should be fat on your job is your paycheck. There is a "huge" worldwide obesity problem. While fads and quick-fix diets abound, they fail to address an important question in weight gain today: is your job making you fat? The answer is "Yes." This bold assertion is based on a great deal of global research that continues to confirm a compelling relationship between working and weight gain. The powerful link between the workplace...

A timely, insightful, and essential guide to conquering workplace stress. Posen gives you the tools to stop harming your most valuable resource-- yourself.

"This book focuses on the many reasons why early childhood professionals can suffer from low staff morale and burnout. Content includes ways to motivate and inspire yourself and others to view their work in a way that is healthy, is intentional, and creates a high-quality early childhood environment"--

Targeted toward police officers, this film discusses personal and emotional problems related to the job. Made with Cleveland Police Dept.

"From the top experts on healthcare workforce engagement comes the vital road map to reduce the alarmingly high-and fast-growing-rate of staff burnout and to transform care. More than half of U.S. physicians and 40 percent of nurses experience one or more symptoms of burnout. This crisis poses a serious threat to our health systems, impacting not only the well-being of the caregiving workforce but also that of patients. Written by a team of thought...

In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 excess deaths each year. In China, 1 million people a year may be dying from overwork. People are literally dying for a paycheck. And it needs to stop. In this timely, provocative book, Jeffrey Pfeffer contends that many modern...

"There is a force in our everyday lives that we aren't even aware of-and it's so powerful it threatens to derail otherwise promising careers and lives: microstress. It's the hidden epidemic of small moments of anxiety that infiltrate both our work and personal lives. Because each individual microstress is so small, it doesn't trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us deal with it. Instead, the microstress just embeds in our minds,...

FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT STRESS. If you're like most people, you probably think that stress is an inevitable part of life. The truth is: it's not. In a groundbreaking 30-year study, Dr. Derek Roger has discovered that everything we think we know about stress-and how we should "manage" it-is just plain wrong. STRESS IS A CHOICE. It is not a natural response to the pressures of work. It's a choice that you make, consciously or not, to worry...