Creating healthy workplaces : stress reduction, improved well-being, and organizational effectiveness / edited by Caroline Biron, Ronald J. Burke and Cary L. Cooper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biron, Caroline, editor.

Burke, Ronald J., editor.

Cooper, Cary L., editor.

Series:

Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work environment--Psychological aspects.

Work environment.

Job stress.

Industrial safety.

Organizational effectiveness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Burlington : Gower Pub., [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Creating Healthy Workplaces includes interventions that relate the efforts undertaken by researchers and organizations to reduce stress and improve the mental and physical health of employees through positive change initiatives. Those working in the field of occupational stress have received criticism that too much emphasis has been placed on negative issues and that positive initiatives have been largely ignored. This book delves into both the positive and the stress fields and compares the types of interventions each entail. Some of the interventions described target individuals and their at

Contents:

Acknowledgements

About editors

Notes on contributors

Preface

Improving individual and organizational health : implementing and learning from interventions / Ronald J. Burke

Creating healthy workplaces : models and approaches

Work and the dynamics of development : an integrated model / Antonella Delle Fave and Marta Bassi

The who global approach to protecting and promoting health at work / Evelyn Kortum

ACT : a third wave behavioural-cognitive approach to creating healthy workplaces / Julie Ménard and Brent Beresford

Work-life balance and physical health interventions

Improving employee health and work-life balance: developing and validating a coaching-based able (achieving balance in life and employment) program / Arla Day, Lori Francis, Sonya Stevens, Joseph J. Hurrell, Jr. and Patrick McGrath

A case study in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a worksite wellness program for reducing cardiovascular risks / Douglas W. Roblin, Brandi E. Robinson, Stacey A. Benjamin

Effects of workplace-based physical exercise interventions on cost associated with sickness absence and on productivity / Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz; Henna Hasson and Petra Lindfors

Services vouchers : tools to prevent stress and enhance wellbeing / Nathalie Renaudin

Civility, engagement, and participation

Civility, respect, and engagement in the workplace (CREW) : creating organizational environments that work for all / Katerine Osatuke, Maureen Cash, Linda Belton, and Sue R. Dyrenforth

Crew as a work engagement intervention / Michael Leiter

Participative climate as a key for creating healthy workplaces / Keiko Seki Sakakibara, Hirono Ishikawa, Yoshihiko Yamazaki

Leadership interventions

Transformational leadership training for managersá : effects on employee well-being / Kevin Kelloway & Meghan Donohoe

How positive psychology and appreciative inquiry can help leaders create healthy workplaces / Sarah Lewis

Implementing interventions

Interventions to prevent mental health problems at work : facilitating and hindering factors / Jauvin N., Bourbonnais R., Vézina M., Brisson C. and Hegg-Deloye, S.

Implementing an organizational intervention on quality of life at work : key elements and reflections / Caroline Biron, France St-Hilaire and Jean-Pierre Brun

Merging occupational health, safety and health promotion with lean : an integrated systems approach (the leanhealth project) / Terese Stenfors-Hayes, Henna Hasson, Hanna Augustsson, Helena Hvitfeldt Forsberg, Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz

Ehealth interventions for organizations - potential benefits and implementation challenges / Henna Hasson, Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz, Karin Villaume, Dan Hasson

Concluding remarks / Caroline Biron.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-57460-8

1-317-15853-9

1-317-15852-0

1-4094-4311-6

9781315574608

OCLC:

867929069