19 Best Books on Stress Management in the Workplace

Are you experiencing stress in your workplace?

Do you have issues with your anger?

Do you constantly drown in your worries? Is workplace stress ruining your interpersonal relationships?

Are you in search of a way to control stress and its effects on your life?

Everyone in life experiences stresses in one way or the other. Although there are times when it is positive, most times it hurts our daily life. You can lose the ability to connect with others when experiencing the effects of stress.

In other instances, it can create health issues in your life. Having the right information can help in protecting yourself from these issues. Anger control, preventing worries, dealing with stress, and maintaining a good relationship with others are all possible.

These and many more are what you will find herein. All these are the topics that will bring about the positive turnaround you desire in your life.

Your current stress level doesn’t matter. This book will help you alleviate the stress in your life. This is possible if you take the time to put what you learn into practice. As you see changes in your life, you will also improve the lives of those around you.

Many people often wait until stress becomes crushing before taking a step to deal with it; this isn’t the right approach. You increase the risk of developing the various health issues associated with stress. If you’re lucky not to have developed any of these health issues, then don’t delay further in dealing with your stress.

“Maravelas is the best source on workplace irritability and tension.” ―Matt Villano, New York Times

The human longing for respect and dignity is deep and pervasive. Yet, while resolving more than 300 workplace conflicts, author Anna Maravelas has met thousands of individuals struggling with tension and mistrust.

Creating a Drama-Free Workplace contains strategies to avoid and reverse these troubling trends. Learn why trust and connectedness slip through our fingers despite our yearnings for workplaces that are grounded in collaboration and success.

Stop common missteps before they walk out the door with your most valuable assets―trust, morale, and productivity. You can create the environments you desire and deserve with these proven skills grounded in neuroscience.

In this book you will learn how to:

• Take the drama out of disagreement and enhance your ability to problem-solve.
• Eliminate the 5 root causes of workplace tension.
• Be hard on the problem and soft on the people and create lasting alliances.
• Preserve your integrity by talking to people rather than about them.
• Replace bitterness about the past with shared responsibility for the future.

Knowing how to transform conflict into collaboration affects the outcome of every interaction, challenge, and opportunity.

Find calm in the midst of everyday chaos. This strengths-based workbook offers a unique step-by-step approach grounded in positive psychology to help you reduce chronic stress in a busy, frazzled world.

Chronic stress is a serious problem for many people and can lead to a host of health and mental health problems, such as heart disease, anxiety, and depression. If you’re one of the millions who are feeling overworked, overstressed, and overloaded (and chances are, you are!) this much-needed workbook offers a refreshing new approach to help you find peace of mind and start living the life you truly want to live.

In this evidence-based guide, a psychologist offers an innovative strengths-based stress reduction plan grounded in positive psychology. You’ll find tips and strategies for identifying your key character strengths—such as perseverance, social intelligence, bravery, self-control, and more—and discover how these strengths can help you cultivate greater happiness, better relationships with others, and improve your overall health.

Character strengths are a unique catalyst for both happiness and stress management. The skills and practices offered in this workbook can be learned by anyone because the capacity for these strengths exists in everyone—including you!

Stress is a part of life—but it doesn’t have to take over your life. With this guide, you’ll develop the skills needed to help you manage difficult emotions, cultivate self-compassion, adopt positive physical and emotional habits, build resilience, and connect with your true values.

Everyone experiences stress. From the moment we wake up in the morning to the moment we finally settle into bed at night, our days are packed with stressful moments—some big and some small—that can quickly add up and feel overwhelming. Unfortunately, you can’t escape stress. But you can change the way you relate to it. This important workbook will show you how.

Written by internationally renowned ACT experts, The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Stress Reduction offers a powerful ten-week program for stress management drawing on the latest research in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and mindfulness. You’ll gain a better understanding of what stress really is, how it affects the brain and body, and what you can do to manage and reduce stress in your life. You’ll discover how to build resilience and set smart, effective personal goals that align with your values. And finally, you’ll learn to be more aware of how you deal with stress at the moment.

Stress is an unavoidable side effect of being human in today’s fast-paced world. But with this workbook, you’ll build the skills necessary to keep stress in its place and live a more vital life!

Almost 50 million Americans have cumulatively borrowed more than $1.5 trillion to attend college. Roughly one-third of all adults aged 25 to 34 have a student loan. In Education without Debt businessman and philanthropist Scott MacDonald examines the real-life impact of crushing levels of student debt on borrowers and what can be done to fix this crisis.

Weaving together stories of debt-impaired lives with stories of personal success achieved with the essential help of financial aid, MacDonald reveals the devastating personal and societal impact of the debt problem and offers possible solutions. He explores the efforts of colleges and private philanthropists to make education affordable and relates his own experience of finding financial aid for need-eligible students at five universities.

Education without Debt is a must-read book for anyone concerned about the rising cost of education and what to do about this critical policy and societal issue.

This 160-page pocket guide is for self-managing stress and managing stress in others. Poses practical strategies for how to deal with time, anger, people, fatigue, evaluation pressures, and more.

Stress Management: From Basic Science to Better Practice examines documented pathways between stress and health and develops the scientific foundations for sound interventions. The book begins with a broad review of the term ′stress′ and its importance for health. The text then provides a critical examination of the elements of the stress process, extracts supporting research for a rationale of stress management, and describes various stress management techniques and their effectiveness.

During the 2008 recession, many opted to go back to school and gain new skills. However, since then, the cost of a four-year college degree increased by 25 percent, and student debt increased by 107 percent, and many are less sure if college will be the solution to riding out a recession this time around.

Going to college is a costly adventure. But that’s not the issue. The issue is that it is getting more expensive than ever before. Only the brave can. Are you brave? If you are as strong as we think you are, then maybe you can broaden your shoulders to bear the burden of going to college with a student loan.

Hey, take a chill pill, will you? It is not as hard as you think.

But how? That is the question.

And that’s where this guide comes in. Student Loan Guide will teach you:

• Requirements that make you eligible for a student loan
• The maximum and minimum amount you should borrow
• Tips to filling the financial aid form
• Best repayment options
• How to deal with student loan crisis
• And much more.

So, are you ready to understand the rudiments of student loans? Then get your copy of this guide now!

We spend over a third of our weekday lives at work. You probably see your coworkers even more than you see your family.

Since you spend so much time at work, don’t you think you should be happy at work? It will improve your whole life if your work situation is a good situation.

What do you do if just thinking about work makes you feel upset, anxious, worried, or just puts you in a bad mood?

The key is to take charge of your life at work. But how? By actively managing the relationships you have with your coworkers and bosses.

What This Audiobook Can Do For You

You can become stronger, more productive, and more fulfilled at work. This audiobook teaches you how.

This audiobook is your guide to conquering workplace anxiety. What is workplace anxiety? This audio starts out with an explanation of workplace anxiety, to help you reflect and identify where you are having problems at work. Next, the audiobook will help you get over your workplace anxiety with simple tips and tactics you can use to immediately make your work life better. What do you do about a difficult or toxic boss? Learn how to build a healthy relationship with your boss by teaching your boss how to work for you. What about competitive and combative coworkers? Minimize stress and increase your productivity at work with a few easy ways to improve your relationships with your coworkers, all while maintaining your job security. Last, this audiobook discusses anxiety related to the fear of losing your job. Learn how to position yourself to either save your job or quickly find a new one by empowering yourself and making it clear just how much value you provide.

Learn how to create better relationships at work and be happier at work through the actionable advice and information in this audiobook. The happier and more fulfilled you are at work, the happier and more fulfilled you will be in your life.

Preventive Stress Management in Organizations, Second Edition offers a comprehensive framework for creating healthy workplaces.

Chapters examine individual and organizational sources of stress and their consequences; methods and instruments for diagnosing organizational and individual stress; ways to redesign work and improve professional relationships; and methods for managing demands and stressors. New findings from positive psychology are woven in. Methods designed to proactively enhance health and performance at work while averting the costs and discomfort of distress are explored and illustrated by examples drawn from healthy organizations.

Preventive stress management is a philosophy and set of principles grounded in public health, which organizational leaders and consultants can use to help their organization operate to its fullest potential. The approaches outlined in this book may be implemented by leaders in any organization.

The Department of Health advises that one in four people will experience a mental health issue at some point in their lives. Although a number of recent developments and initiatives have raised the profile of this crucial issue, employers are experiencing challenges in promoting the mental health and wellbeing of their employees.

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace contains expert guidance for improving mental health and supporting those experiencing mental ill-health. This comprehensive book addresses the range of issues surrounding mental health and wellbeing in work environments – providing all involved with informative and practical assistance.

Authors Gill Hasson and Donna Butler examine changing workplace environment for improved wellbeing, shifting employer and employee attitudes on mental health, possible solutions to current and future challenges, and more. Detailed, real-world case studies illustrate a variety of associated concerns from both employer and employee perspectives.

This important guide explains mental health’s impact on businesses and employees; discusses why and how to promote mental health in the workplace and the importance of having an effective “wellbeing strategy”; provides guidance on managing staff experiencing mental ill health; addresses dealing with employee stress and anxiety; and more.

A self-improvement guru’s inspiring and effective tips for gaining control of our Herculean workloads and overbooked personal lives.

How often do you think to yourself, So much to do and so little time? In the sympathetic and insightful style of The Procrastinator’s Handbook, Rita Emmett offers help for those of us with too much to do. The key is not time management but “stuff” management – taking control of all those tasks to do, people to see, commitments, and obligations to fulfill. Mismanagement of all that “to-do” stuff is what leads to stress.

We often have little control over the demands made upon us, yet we can control our response. That’s where the management of stress must start.

Emmett combines quick, easy-to-digest tips and infectious good humor to give listeners positive ways to handle stress and their overly busy lives, first by understanding how stress impacts our physical, mental and emotional health. She shows us how to cut down on distractions and interruptions that sap our concentration and energy, be more organized and streamline our duties, ask for help and be more selective about what we choose to do, and clarify our values and prioritize activities based on what is important.

Spending time doing things that are incongruent with your values, striving for perfection, being overly competitive, and job insecurity are some of the reasons people feel overburdened and overwhelmed. Emmett draws on the stories of many people who have participated in her seminars, and listeners will not only identify with their problems but can find common ground in the strategies that have worked for them.

Understand stress, uncover your triggers, calm your madness, and find your power!

In our search for happiness, many of us find ourselves pleasing everyone else over ourselves until we end up with feelings of resentment, frustration, and stress. Whether you’re looking for love, work, or the solutions to a problematic marriage or the pressures of facing an empty nest, The Stress Management Handbook will teach you how to speak and live from a place of love rather than a place of stress. Stress expert Dr. Eva will help you:

• Understand the stress response
• Get a hold on negative emotions
• Redirect stress for good
• Laugh and let go

These tools will teach you how to shift negativity to positivity in seconds, and finally home in on the cause of your stress and release it to create your own happiness.

Tired of letting stress have a negative impact on your life? Easy.

It’s impossible to get through life without encountering stress. And unfortunately, most of us learn the incorrect ways to cope with it. Thankfully, Stress Management For Dummies gives you trusted, time-tested guidance on teaching your body and mind to properly cope with stress while keeping your sanity intact.

Whether it’s love, work, family, or something else that has you in the red zone, this updated edition of Stress Management For Dummies will help you identify the stress triggers in your life and cut them down to size – all without losing your cool.

• Shows you how to use stress in a positive, motivational way instead of letting it negatively affect your life
• Teaches you to retrain your body and mind to react positively to stress
• Helps you overcome common stresses faced in modern life

If you want to manage stress and get back to living a normal life, Stress Management For Dummies has you covered.

From the best-selling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief comes the definitive guide to treating – and eliminating – excessive stress in the workplace.

Dr. David Posen, a popular speaker and a leading expert on stress mastery, identifies the three biggest problems that contribute to burnout and low productivity: Volume, Velocity, and Abuse. He shares revealing anecdotes and offers clear descriptions of the biology of stress to illustrate how downsizing, economic uncertainty, and technology have made the workplace more toxic than ever. Most importantly, he offers practical advice and easy techniques for managing the harmful symptoms and side effects of stress.

Witty, engaging, and accessible, Is Work Killing You? touches on everything from meetings to tweeting, from fake work to face time, from deadlines to dead tired, and more. With this book, Dr. Posen gives us the tools to stop harming our most valuable resource – ourselves.

Learn how to thrive in—or escape from—a toxic work environment.

Toxic organizations are rife with conflict, fear, and anger. The environment causes people to have physiological responses as if they’re in a fight-or-flight situation. Healthy people become ill. Colds, flu, and stress-related illnesses such as heart attacks are more common. By contrast, in resonant organizations, people take fewer sick days and turnover is low. People smile, make jokes, talk openly and help one another.” – Annie McKee (author, consultant)

Many employees experience the reality of bullying bosses, poisonous people, and soul-crushing cultures on a daily basis. Rising Above a Toxic Workplace tells authentic stories from today’s workers who share how they cope, change, or quit. Candidly they open up about what they learned, what they wish they had done, and how to gain resilience.

Insightfully illustrating from these accounts, authors Gary Chapman, Paul White, and Harold Myra blend their combined experiences in ministry and business to deliver hope and practical guidance to those who find themselves in an unhealthy work environment.