Organization, 1993, p. 14). Social science research is beginning to stimulate legislation. In the Scandinavian countries, for instance, employers are required, in some instances, to provide meaningful work and appropriate job satisfaction with a minimum of occupational stress. There is then increasing awareness and expertise focused on both theoretical and practical problem solving (McLean, 1988, p. 37).
The industrial revolution has brought undreamed of creature comforts, labor saving devices, and other material benefits to a large segment of the world's population. It has also exposed more and more people to a myriad of dangers from atmospheric and water pollution, radiation, electricity, allergies and noise. In a variety of ways it has wrought sweeping changes in the life of Western Civilization. Not only technology affected the worker's health and that of his family through mechanical and chemical hazards, but more subtly through the assembly line and other features of mass production.
It is clearly in the interests of the employer to have healthy employees "Stress related illness costs, 1993, p. 11). Therefore, one must ask what being healthy consists of. "Health has been defined as a state of moral, mental and physical well being which enables crises in life to be faced with facility and grace" (Wolf and Finestone, 1992, p. 47). From the point of view of the employer, then, a healthy employee is one who is on hand and able to meet the challenges of
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