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Workplace Well-being: How to Build Psychologically Healthy Workplaces (ePub eBook)

eBook by Day, Arla/Kelloway, E. Kevin/Hurrell, Joseph J.

Workplace Well-being: How to Build Psychologically Healthy Workplaces (ePub eBook)

£42.95

ISBN:
9781118469439
Publication Date:
30 Apr 2014
Publisher:
Wiley
Imprint:
Wiley-Blackwell
Pages:
356 pages
Format:
eBook
For delivery:
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Workplace Well-being: How to Build Psychologically Healthy Workplaces (ePub eBook)

Description

Workplace Wellbeing is a complete guide to understanding and implementing the principles of a psychologically healthy workplace for psychologists and other practitioners. O Grounded in the latest theory and research yet filled with plenty of case studies and proven techniques O Introduces the core components of psychologically healthy workplaces, including health and safety, leadership, employee involvement, development, recognition, work-life balance, culture and communication O Addresses important issues such as the role of unions, the importance of leadership, healthy workplaces in small businesses, respectful workplace cultures, and corporate social responsibility O Discusses factors that influence the physical safety of employees, as well as their physical and psychological health O Brings together stellar scholars from around the world, including the US, Canada, Europe, Israel, and Australia

Contents

About the Editors vii Contributors ix Preface xvi Part I Introduction 1 1 Building a Foundation for Psychologically Healthy Workplaces and Well-Being 3 Arla Day and Krista D. Randell 2 Business Benefits of a Healthy Workforce 27 Cary Cooper and Stephen Bevan 3 Positive Psychology and the Healthy Workplace 50 Stephanie Gilbert and E. Kevin Kelloway Part II The Psychologically Healthy Workplace 73 4 Occupational Health and Safety 75 Peter Y. Chen and Yiqiong Li 5 Introduction to Work Life Balance 95 Leslie B. Hammer and Caitlin A. Demsky 6 Employee Empowerment and Engagement 117 Marisa Salanova and Susana Llorens 7 Employee Development and Growth 142 Raymond A. Noe and Michael J. Tews 8 Employee Recognition 161 Lois E. Tetrick and Clifford R. Haimann 9 Culture, Communication, and Making Workplaces Healthier 175 David M. DeJoy and Lindsay J. Della Part III Building a Psychologically Healthy Workplace 203 10 Respectful Workplaces 205 Michael P. Leiter and Ashlyn Patterson 11 Leadership and Climate in a Psychologically Healthy Workplace 226 Karina Nielsen 12 Unions and Changes in Working Life: New Challenges, New Opportunities 245 Katharina Naswall and Magnus Sverke 13 Corporate Social Responsibility and Psychologically Healthy Workplaces 264 Jennifer L. Robertson and Julian Barling 14 Creating a Healthy Small Business 281 Sharon Clarke 15 Designing Healthy Workplaces 299 Catherine Loughlin and Danielle Mercer 16 Concluding Comments 324 Joseph J. Hurrell Jr. Index 334

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