Volume 17 of Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being is focused on the stress and well-being related to the marketing discipline. This volume is focused on the connections between employee stress, health, and well-being as it relates to marketing, sales, and customers. We have 7 chapters devoted to critical topics such as internal selling, stress at the consumer-employee interface, how leaders can affect the customer experience, and the unique stressors associated with being a persuasion agent. Further, we have two comprehensive empirical reviews of topics in this domain. The first examines the degree to which positive psychology constructs relate to sales performance. The second examines customer mistreatment towards employees and how it impacts their well-being. The final chapter takes a more practitioner perspective and examines the importance of taking into account stress tolerance when selecting and training sales personnel. The objective of this series is to promote theory and research in the increasingly growing area of occupational stress, health and well-being, and in the process, to bring together and showcase the work of the best researchers and theorists who contribute to this area. Questions of work stress and well-being span many disciplines and many specialized journals. One of the virtues of this series has been to provide a multidisciplinary and international platform that gives a thorough and critical assessment of knowledge, and major gaps in knowledge, on occupational stress and well-being.
About the Author: Pamela L. Perrewé is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor, the Haywood and Betty Taylor Eminent Scholar of Business Administration and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University, USA. She has focused her research interests in the areas of job stress, coping, organizational politics, emotion and personality. Dr. Perrewé has published over 35 book chapters and over 140 journal articles in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Organizational Behavior and Personnel Psychology. She has fellow status with Southern Management Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science. Peter D. Harms received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently an Associate Professor of Management at the Culverhouse College of Business at the University of Alabama, USA. His research focuses on the assessment and development of personality, leadership, and psychological well-being. Dr. Harms has published over 90 journal articles and was selected as one of 100 Knowledge Leaders of Tomorrow in 2011. He currently serves on the scientific advisory board of Hogan Assessment Systems and has engaged in research partnerships with the U.S. Army, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the U.S. Department of Labor.