Managing Executive Health
Personal and Corporate Strategies for Sustained Success

A positive approach to managing executive-level stress and associated health problems.

James Campbell Quick (Author), Cary L. Cooper (Author), Joanne H. Gavin (Author), Jonathan D. Quick (Author)

9780521688642, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 5 June 2008

256 pages, 7 b/w illus. 7 tables
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.42 kg

'A comprehensive analysis of the pitfalls and stresses associated with leadership and why current conditions are contributing to an increase in these problems and their adverse fiscal and health effects. This concise volume contains numerous useful suggestions on how to prevent or minimize such complications so that executives can learn how to become more productive and less self destructive.' Paul J. Rosch, The American Institute of Stress; Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, New York Medical College

The health of managers, executives, and business leaders has a massive impact on the performance and prospects of modern organizations. If health problems are not tackled, people become less productive, less effective, and more destructive. It is clear that business leaders and human resource professionals cannot afford to ignore the impact of work-related health issues on company performance. Yet even acknowledging this fact still leaves us with a choice over how to proceed. Should we try to minimize those risks that typically lead to health problems or seek to strengthen executive health? While recognising that identifying health risks is the first step in any preventive health program, Managing Executive Health argues for a positive approach, which emphasizes physical vigour, psychological well-being, spiritual vitality, and ethical integrity. Key issues are illustrated throughout with case studies of high-profile figures from the worlds of business and politics.

List of figures
List of tables
List of spotlights
Acknowledgements
Foreword
1. Competition, conflict, and executive health
2. The Achilles' heel: risk and vulnerability
3. The loneliness of command
4. Work demands and travel
5. Professional crisis and personal tragedy
6. Executive women and health
7. Physical health
8. Psychological well-being
9. Spiritual vitality
10. Ethical character
11. A secure base for performing and achieving
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Health psychology [MBNH9], Health & safety issues [KNXC], Business & management [KJ], Health economics [KCQ]