C L Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 12248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C L Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | C L |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0360-8498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 134 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 435 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 134 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Mega Sporting Events in Developing Nations: Necessity or Bureaucratic Burden
This paper presents a pioneering investigation into why street‐level bureaucrats in Egypt perceive the hosting of mega sporting events as necessary or unnecessary. Based on interviews with 36 street‐level bureaucrats, the findings reveal that only a small number of participants view hosting such events as necessary, while the vast majority consider them unnecessary. These perceptions are shaped by both job‐related barriers, which include exclusio…
When extreme work becomes the norm: An Exploration of Coping Strategies of Public Sector Nurses
Drawing on extreme work and transactional stress literature streams; this paper investigates the mechanisms used by public sector nurses to cope with their extreme work conditions in the fragile state context of Egypt. Our findings, which are based on 24 qualitative interviews, show that, to cope with their extreme job duties, nurses engage in the following four strategies–reassertion of professionalism, submission and fatalism, cronyism, and tem…
Reviving China’s global footprint along the Silk Roads and the ‘Belt and Road Initiative: Chinese overseas industrial park in Egypt
As the main East-West trade routes in ancient history, the Silk Roads significantly influenced Chinese relations with Egypt, an important country in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Informed by the history of the Silk Roads, we articulate China’s role in global business history with a focus on identifying key characteristics that underpinned ancient Chinese relations with Egypt. By juxtaposing co-evolution and institutional perspec…
Law Enforcement, Leadership and Wellbeing: Creating Resilience
This book provides a guide to establishing wellbeing services and interventions within policing with practical advice for police and HR professionals
A study on the relationship of abusive supervision and fear based silence in India the mediating role of dimensions of emotional intelligence
Compulsory citizenship behaviour and work-family conflict: A moderated mediation model
Sick and working: Current challenges and emerging directions for future presenteeism research
Presenteeism refers to working despite ill health that might otherwise warrant sickness absence. Estimated to cost tens of millions of dollars in lost productivity, the concept has attracted the attention of different academic disciplines, policymakers, and practitioners interested in mitigating the problem. Although a topic of significant interest, the current understanding of presenteeism is compromised by a number of conceptual and methodologi…
Sickness Presenteeism as a Link between Long Working Hours and Employees’ Outcomes: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators as Resources
The aim of this study was to test the flow from long working hours to sickness presenteeism behavior and its outcomes for employees, while integrating intrinsic and extrinsic work value orientations as moderators in the process. We employed a two-wave design with a five-month interval. Data were obtained from 275 employees in Taiwan. The results of latent moderated structural equations (LMS) revealed that long working hours were positively associ…
Patient Safety and Staff Well-Being: Organizational Culture as a Resource
The present study examines the relationship between patient safety culture and health workers' well-being. Applying the conservation of resources mechanism, we tested theory-based hypotheses in a large cross-disciplinary sample (N = 3232) from a Taiwanese metropolitan healthcare system. Using the structural equation modeling technique, we found that patient safety culture was negatively related to staff burnout (β = -0.74) and could explain 55% o…
The Sage Handbook of Organizational Wellbeing
It's business, leave your emotions at the door. The Wolf of Wall Street Interest in how emotions shape organizational attitudes and behaviors has risen over the last couple of decades among scientists and practitioners (Ashforth and Humphrey, 1995; Barsade and Gibson, 2007; Hochschild, 1983). Appreciation of the critical role of workplace emotions emerged during the 1980s. Prior to this, the idea of emotions at work was viewed as ancillary to the…
Post-Pandemic Patient Safety Culture: A Case from a Large Metropolitan Hospital Group in Taiwan
Patient safety is the core goal of medical institutions. The present study focuses on the patient safety culture and staff well-being admit the COVID-19 pandemic. In a large metropolitan hospital group, 337 employees who had participated in the quality improvement interventions completed an anonymous questionnaire of patient safety culture and personal well-being. The multiple regression analyses indicated that managerial role, seniority, female …
Do Gender and Gender Role Orientation Make a Difference in the Link between Role Demands and Family Interference with Work for Taiwanese Workers
Based on the gender role orientation perspective, this study extends the resource depletion mechanism that links role demands to family interference with work by testing the moderating effects of gender and gender role orientation (egalitarian vs. traditional) on the relationships. Analysis of the data from 251 employees in Taiwan revealed two significant three-way interactive effects. Specifically, for men, the positive relationship between work…
Gender Diversity and Work–Life Conflict in Changing Times
The aim of the study is to contribute to the "well-being, diversity, equity, and inclusion" dialogue of the post-pandemic era. Specifically, we explored the joint effects of biological sex and gender diversity in self-identity on the role demands-work and family conflict relationships. To advance the inclusion of scientific knowledge, the present study was conducted in the cultural context of a Chinese society. We surveyed a sample of 317 Taiwane…
Occupational Stress and Its Economic Cost in Hong Kong: The Role of Positive Emotions
There has been less research on the costs of occupational stress attributed to certain job stressors in Chinese contexts. This study identified and validated common job stressors and estimated the economic cost in Hong Kong. The role of positive emotions in alleviating the economic costs of job stressors was also examined. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were adopted. The findings obtained from five focus group discussions and a surv…
Research priorities for the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond: A call to action for psychological science
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) that has caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represents the greatest international biopsychosocial emergency the world has faced for a century, and psychological science has an integral role to offer in helping societies recover. The aim of this paper is to set out the shorter- and longer-term priorities for research in psychological science that will (a) frame t…
The Sarpedon Krater: The Life and Afterlife of a Greek Vase by Nigel Spivey
186 PHOENIX or others. Levin-Richardson’s examination of legal texts supports such use of property among the elite as a revenue stream. The next three chapters (Six to Eight) put the evidence discussed previously to work and tease out themes already touched on. Focusing on clients, then female prostitutes, and finally male prostitutes, Levin-Richardson considers each group’s relation to the space, graffiti, objects, and each other. Her attention …
The technostress trifecta ‐ techno eustress, techno distress and design: Theoretical directions and an agenda for research
Technostress—defined as stress that individuals experience due to their use of Information Systems—represents an emerging phenomenon of scholarly investigation. It examines how and why the use of IS causes individuals to experience various demands that they find stressful. This paper develops a framework for guiding future research in technostress experienced by individuals in organizations. We first review and critically analyse the state of cur…
Sustainability and organizational behavior: A micro‐foundational perspective
Organizational behavior is a well‐established academic field comprising a comprehensive and wide range of extant literature. In contrast, sustainability and micro‐foundational literature constitute significant but nevertheless more relatively recent emergent bodies of work with each having developed particular predilections in the manner in which they are cast and discussed. There is scope, therefore, to bring to bear a range of organizational be…
Workplace stress from actual and desired computer‐mediated communication use: A multi‐method study
The use of computer‐mediated communication applications can lead to workplace stress for employees. However, such stress is influenced not only by how individuals actually use computer‐mediated communication applications but also how they desire to use them. This article examines how the individual's actual and desired use of communication tools together influence his or her workplace stress. It does so across a range of computer‐mediated media (…
Measurement Invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale Across 26 Countries
The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a commonly used life satisfaction scale. Cross-cultural researchers use SWLS to compare mean scores of life satisfaction across countries. Despite the wide use of SWLS in cross-cultural studies, measurement invariance of SWLS has rarely been investigated, and previous studies showed inconsistent findings. Therefore, we examined the measurement invariance of SWLS with samples collected from 26 countries. …
Work and Wellbeing in the 21st Century
The nature of work and the way it is conceptualised has been evolving since the dawn of humankind.[...]
Presenteeism as a global phenomenon: Unraveling the psychosocial mechanisms from the perspective of social cognitive theory
Purpose Presenteeism occurs when people are physically present in the workplace but are functionally absent (Cooper, 1996). With evidence from the developed West, researchers have argued that being excessively present may be even costlier than absenteeism to employers (Burton, Chen, Conti, Schultz, & Edington, 2006; Hemp, 2004). However, research on presenteeism in the East is almost non-existent. With the strong Confucius cultural imperative for…
The price of love: The prioritisation of childcare and income earning among UK fathers
Shifting perspectives on how fathers ‘should’ practice childcare responsibilities, combined with changing household income patterns, indicate that balancing childcare and breadwinning is complicated for contemporary fathers. Drawing on qualitative discussions with 100 employed fathers in the United Kingdom (UK) and using notions of breadwinner (income-earning) and involved (hands-on) fathering as an analytical framework, this study examines how e…
A Qualitative Study Investigating Gender Differences in Primary Work Stressors and Levels of Job Satisfaction in Greek Junior Hospital Doctors
Primary work stressors and job satisfaction/dissatisfaction in Greek Junior Hospital Doctors (JHDs) are investigated to identify similarities and differences in the reports obtained from male and female hospital doctors. Participants in the study included 32 male and 28 female Greek hospital doctors who provided information through semi-structured, in-depth interviews. The findings revealed that a majority of Greek JHDs considered their professio…
Stress, Health and Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Employee and Organizational Commitment
This study investigates the mediating impact of organizational commitment on the relationship between organizational stressors and employee health and well-being. Data were collected from 401 operator level employees working in business process outsourcing organizations (BPOs) based in New Delhi, India. In this research several dimensions from ASSET, which is an organizational stress screening tool, were used to measure employee perceptions of st…
Fathers at Work: A Ghost in the Organizational Machine
This article first provides a review of fatherhood in the gender and organization literature on work and family, and the body and (in)visibility. It observes how organizational assumptions which frame fathers as breadwinners, ignoring their paternal role, remain extraordinarily persistent because policies (no matter how long established) do not necessarily change social attitudes and behaviours. The article then draws upon original qualitative da…
Missing Pieces: 7 Ways to Improve Employee Well-Being and Organizational Effectiveness
Introduction About This Book Discover the Missing Pieces of Management Recognize Your Employees: A Simple Act Support Your Employees Develop a Culture of Respect Reconcile Work With Personal Life Control the Workload Encourage and Support Autonomy and Participation in Decision-making Clarify Everyone's Roles Move From Words to Action References
Flexible Working and the Gender Pay Gap in the Accountancy Profession
The relationship between flexible working arrangements and the gender pay gap is explored in this article, based on a study of flexible working arrangements among Chartered Accountants in Britain. Individual interviews with 50 participants provided details on working patterns, flexibility policies and practices, and experiences of flexible working.The article considers whether gender-neutral discourses of flexible working succeed in encouraging m…
Healthy Mind; Healthy Organization— A Proactive Approach to Occupational Stress
The direct and indirect costs of occupational stress can be measured in both humanistic and financial terms. Therefore, financially healthy organizations are likely to be those which are successful in maintaining and retaining a workforce characterized by good physical, psychological, and mental health. In drawing upon recent empirical studies, this paper examines a wide range of issues including: factors intrinsic to the job, corporate culture, …
The person‐environment fit approach to stress: Recurring problems and some suggested solutions
The person–environment (P‐E) fit approach to stress has gained widespread acceptance in the organizational stress literature. However, current research into the P‐E fit approach to stress is repeatedly plagued with serious theoretical and methodological problems. Taken together, these problems severely threaten the conclusivness of available empirical evidence and suggest that the current widespread acceptance of the P‐E fit approach may be unwar…
The New Reality for UK Managers: Perpetual Change and Employment Instability
Redundancy, delayering and other forms of organisational change have become increasingly prevalent over the last ten years. Some of the worst-hit industries during the recent years have been the former public utilities, the financial services sector and manufacturing. This paper is based on the results from the first three years' data from a five year UMIST-Institute of Management research programme which has been designed to explore the changing…
Do national levels of individualism and internal locus of control relate to well‐being: An ecological level international study
Data were collected from managers in 24 nations/territories on work locus of control (LOC), individualism–collectivism (I–C), and well‐being (job satisfaction, absence of psychological strain, and absence of physical strain). There were significant mean differences across samples on all five of these measures, and consistent with our hypothesis, at the ecological or sample mean level well‐being was associated with an internal locus of control. Ho…
The Relationship Between Work Stress and Leisure Style: British and German Managers
In a study involving 255 management and executive personnel from Great Britain and West Germany, information was collated regarding occupational stress and leisure pursuits. Managers who exercised regularly were not significantly different in their occupational stress profiles compared to non-exercisers. Furthermore, physical exercise did not serve as a buffer in the stress-health linkage. There was some indication that the work-leisure balance m…
The price of love: The prioritisation of childcare and income earning among UK fathers
Shifting perspectives on how fathers ‘should’ practice childcare responsibilities, combined with changing household income patterns, indicate that balancing childcare and breadwinning is complicated for contemporary fathers. Drawing on qualitative discussions with 100 employed fathers in the United Kingdom (UK) and using notions of breadwinner (income-earning) and involved (hands-on) fathering as an analytical framework, this study examines how e…
Well‐balanced families: A gendered analysis of work‐life balance policies and work family practices
Purpose The paper considers the impact of work‐life balance policies on the work and family practices of professional, dual‐earner parents with dependent children, by assessing the extent to which “well‐balanced families” have been resultantly facilitated. It poses two research questions: the first centres on how far work‐life balance policies have better enabled working parents to manage their commitments to employers and children, whilst the se…
Victimization in the school and the workplace: Are there any links
We examine whether reported roles in school bullying, and victimization in the workplace, are connected; the influence of victim coping strategies at school; and sex differences. A questionnaire was completed by 5,288 adults from various workplace venues in Great Britain. We analysed two questions on school experiences (participant role; coping strategies if bullied) and questions on workplace bullying (experiences of being bullied). We found a s…
The Moderating Effect of Organizational Commitment on the Occupational Stress Outcome Relationship
The study attempted to examine the effect of organizational commitment as a moderator of the stress-outcome relationship. In all, 106 (39 male, 67 female) professional and administrative officers from various departments of a public sector organization each completed a set of questionnaires which consisted of the Occupational Stress Indicator (OSI) which has six subscales relating to stressors, six relating to coping strategies, three relating to…
Occupational stress in head teachers: A national UK study
This study assessed occupational stress amongst 2,638 head teachers of primary and secondary schools, together with principals/directors of further and higher education establishments, throughout the United Kingdom. Data were collected on personal/job demographics, sources of job stress, mental health, job satisfaction and coping strategies. These data were analysed by SPSS-X, producing univariate, bivariate and multivariate techniques.It was fou…
A Cybernetic Framework for Studying Occupational Stress
This paper provides a theoreticalframework for the study of occupational stress. The theory is based on a cybernetic model, which the authors feel is consistent with much of the empirical work already engaged in by researchers in the field of occupational stress. This model draws attention to certain information and feedback characteristics frequently neglected in research in this area
Gender, age and tenure as moderators of work-related stressors' relationships with job performance: A meta-analysis
We investigated the extent to which three socio-demographic variables, employee gender, age, and tenure, moderated the meta-correlations of role conflict and role ambiguity with job performance. To test these moderating effects, we quantitatively synthesized 30 independent studies (total N = 7700). No moderating effects were found for gender and tenure. Controlling for employee tenure and gender, we found that employee mean age had a moderating e…
Job Satisfaction, Mental Health, and Occupational Stress Among Senior Civil Servants
This study found that senior U.K. civil servants were significantly more job dissatisfied and displayed more mental and physical ill health than their private sector counterparts. The main sources of stress were "factors intrinsic to the job" such as poorer comparative pay and working conditions, and a strong feeling of possessing little control over their job and their organization. These results are fully discussed
A Cross-National Comparative Study of Work/Family Demands and Resources
This article presents phase 2 of the Collaborative International Study of Managerial Stress (CISMS2) with the objective of studying cross culturally/cross-nationally potential causes and consequences of work-family conflict. This collaborative international study contributes to the existing literature on work and family by adding a different theoretical perspective (interaction between demands and resources, and resource loss), following the thin…
The Influence of the Trainer on Participant Change in T-Groups
Research priorities for the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond: A call to action for psychological science
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) that has caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represents the greatest international biopsychosocial emergency the world has faced for a century, and psychological science has an integral role to offer in helping societies recover. The aim of this paper is to set out the shorter- and longer-term priorities for research in psychological science that will (a) frame t…
Perceptions of the causes of childhood disability among Pakistani families living in the UK: Disability among Pakistani families
It has been well documented that South Asian families caring for a child with a disability experience discrimination and disadvantage in accessing health and social care services. This gives increasing cause for concern as the number of South Asian people with severe learning impairments in the UK continues to rise. Mainstream services are ill-equipped to provide individual services to parents who choose to define and address disability different…
Occupational stress among senior police officers
From a survey of over 500 senior UK police officers completing the occupational stress inventory, it was observed that those serving in England and Wales exhibited the highest job stress related to structure and climate, co-worker relationships and their managerial role. There were no inter-regional differences on the individual difference variables, Type A behaviour, locus of control, or on physical health measures. Superintendents in Scotland u…
Identifying distress among general practitioners: Predictors of psychological ill-health and job dissatisfaction
Mental health and satisfaction among tax officers
The Quality of Working Life in Western and Eastern Europe
There has been increasing concern during the last decade to improve the quality of working life in Europe. Many industries are seeking to improve both working conditions and job satisfaction for their employees. The Quality of Working Life examines the issues raised by quality-of-working-life experiments, explores pioneer work done in Europe, and highlights specific developments in both Western and Eastern European countries
Measurement Invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale Across 26 Countries
The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a commonly used life satisfaction scale. Cross-cultural researchers use SWLS to compare mean scores of life satisfaction across countries. Despite the wide use of SWLS in cross-cultural studies, measurement invariance of SWLS has rarely been investigated, and previous studies showed inconsistent findings. Therefore, we examined the measurement invariance of SWLS with samples collected from 26 countries. …
The Influence of the Trainer on Participant Change in T-Groups
T-Group Training and Self-Actualization
This study examined the impact of T-group training on trainees' self-actualization. Trainees were given the Personal Orientation Inventory before and after 2 1-wk. T-groups. They showed significant change in the direction of becoming more independent and self-supporting, more flexible, more sensitive to their own needs and feelings, more spontaneous and more accepting of aggression
Coping with Life Stress after Sensitivity Training
Physical Encounter and Self-Disclosure
This study investigated the hypothesis that physical and body contact exercises within an encounter group reduce barriers between people and increase their willingness to self-disclose. Ss participating in these exercises ( n = 18), in contrast to 9 controls, showed a significant increase in self-disclosure following the group session
III (a) theory, concepts, research
Evaluation methodology
This article considers some of the current issues in the methodology of research evaluation in the managerial psychology and training fields. The purposes and functions, ethics and values, and philosophical and theoretical frameworks of evaluation are all explored. Finally, a number of practical problems of evaluation methodology are examined in the light of recent thinking about research design
How Psychologically Dangerous are T-Groups and Encounter Groups
A number of people involved in the field of group training have suggested that Sensitivity Training (or T-groups as they are commonly called in Europe) and Encounter Groups may be 'counter-productive', 'disrupt ongoing personality functions', and 'encourage inappropriate levels of intimacy which may destroy rewarding psychological relationships with other people' (Mann, 1970: Crawshaw, 1969). That is, that this form of training is potentially dan…
Occupational sources of stress: A review of the literature relating to coronary heart disease and mental ill health
A great deal of research has been conducted over recent years in the field of occupational stress and its relationship to physical and mental illness. This paper attempts to provide a framework for examining this work, with the dual objectives of broadening the existing psychological literature with the extensive medical data available and also highlighting the research gaps in this area. By emphasizing the medical evidence it is hoped that we ma…
Coping with Occupational Stress among Royal Air Force Personnel on Isolated Island Bases
This study assessed the demographic and psychometric characteristics that may be related to task performance, supervisory skills, personal skills and conduct during a period of relative isolation and confinement among Air Force personnel. A number of Cattell's 16 PF source traits and certain demographic factors predicted the effectiveness of work performance and conduct of these 64 RAF personnel under these conditions
T-Groups-Twenty Years on: A Prophecy
This article examines the development of experiential learning groups in terms of their social values and the socioeconomic conditions leading to their growth. In addition, and more importantly, it will attempt to prophesy the future of the human relations/experiential movement by a detailed examination of four socioeconomic trends: Anglo-American orientation of the movement, production and growth trends of advanced capitalist economies, shifting…
Adverse and Growthful Effects of Experiential Learning Groups: The Role of the Trainer, Participant, and Group Characteristics
The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of experiential learning groups associated with adverse and growthful effects. Data were collected on trainer behavior/personality, participant personality/conditions of participation, and group process characteristics, and these were linked to two generic outcome measures (i.e., other trainee perceptions and work colleague reports). It wasfound that both positive and negative effects o…
Identifying sources of occupational stress among dentists
This study examined the sources of job stress among 150 dentists. It was found that the ‘dentist at risk’ tends to be older, somewhat anxious, and feels he is perceived as an ‘inflictor of pain’, with pressures from his work stemming from trying to sustain and build a practice, too little work, administrative difficulties and having to cope with difficult patients
The Executive Gypsy: The Quality of Managerial Life
A Cybernetic Framework for Studying Occupational Stress
This paper provides a theoreticalframework for the study of occupational stress. The theory is based on a cybernetic model, which the authors feel is consistent with much of the empirical work already engaged in by researchers in the field of occupational stress. This model draws attention to certain information and feedback characteristics frequently neglected in research in this area
Working life: A social science contribution to work reform, Bertil Gardell and Gunn Johansson, Wiley, Chichester, 1981. No of pages: 347. Price: £16.00
Stress among air traffic controllers: Occupational sources of coronary heart disease risk
This study attempts to assess the sources of occupational stress on air traffic controllers. It is based on data collected from a majority of air traffic controllers at a large U.K. airport. There are two unique methodological features described in this article. First, the use of the repertory grid technique as a method of generating work stressor variables, and second, the use of the multiple logistic equation as a coronary heart disease risk in…
The Quality of Working Life in Western and Eastern Europe
Culture's Consequences: International differences in work related values, Geert Hofstede, Sage Publications, London and Beverly Hils, 1980. No. of pages: 475. Price £18.75
Interpreting stress: Sources of job stress among conference interpreters
A validation of the Defence Mechanism Inventory
The Defence Mechanism Inventory (Gleser & Ihilevich, 1969) was validated by examining the 16PF profiles of each group of defenders. These were found to correspond closely to profiles hypothesized on the basis of Freudian theory, and thus suggest that the test may be valid. The ipsative scoring system was thought to limit the clinical usefulness of the five scales and to hinder statistical analyses, and the development of a rating form of the ques…
The Quality of Working Life in Western and Eastern Europe
There has been increasing concern during the last decade to improve the quality of working life in Europe. Many industries are seeking to improve both working conditions and job satisfaction for their employees. The Quality of Working Life examines the issues raised by quality-of-working-life experiments, explores pioneer work done in Europe, and highlights specific developments in both Western and Eastern European countries
Working women in the European community—The future prospect
Stress and the Woman Manager
Mental health and satisfaction among tax officers
The significance of psychosocial factors in predicting coronary disease in patients with valvular heart disease
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