Publisher's Synopsis
Over the last two decades, there has been a steady growth of reports on the impact of control on health and well-being. In the occupational health area, the concept that worker influence over aspects of working conditions is vital to health has produced many recent reports on perceived stress amongst hospital employees, clerical workers and health professionals in the armed services.;This study examines the effects of job control on health and productivity across a range of working environments. It explores scientific concerns about the control-health relationship, the role of control in human motivation, and the growing conviction that job control is central to the well-being of workers.
