Handbook on Management and Employment Practices / edited by Paula Brough, Elliroma Gardiner, Kevin Daniels.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brough, Paula, editor.

Gardiner, Elliroma, editor.

Daniels, Kevin, editor.

Series:

Handbook Series in Occupational Health Sciences, 2730-7417 ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial sociology.

Psychology, Industrial.

Personnel management.

Sociology of Work.

Work and Organizational Psychology.

Human Resource Management.

Local Subjects:

Sociology of Work.

Work and Organizational Psychology.

Human Resource Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (877 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

1st ed. 2022.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.

Summary:

This handbook focuses on the contribution of management and employment practices to the health and wellbeing of workers. It provides readers with a comprehensive oversight of the latest research and thinking on these issues, with content provided by leading researchers in each of the fields covered. This reference work is divided into six sections that cover leadership, change management, human resource management practices, managing disabilities, work-life interfaces, and emerging challenges. The topics covered represent an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating psychology, social sciences, biomedical sciences, economics, employment relations and management. Through a spectrum of chapters this volume provides the best available scientific evidence to professionals and stakeholders on the interplay between management practices, health and wellbeing. .

Contents:

Introduction

Successful leadership

Leadership and safety

Management competencies for health and wellbeing

Followership

Incremental and disruptive change and wellbeing

Restructuring, downsizing, and wellbeing

Managing through a recession

Lean transition and wellbeing

Participative change and wellbeing

Readiness for change and wellbeing

Psychological contracts

Fairness at work

Work-based learning and wellbeing

Management of equity and diversity

Employment relations and employee voice

High performance work systems

Developmental HR practices as tools to support well-being

Ethical culture & management

Effective management of whistleblowing

Psychosocial safety climate

The aging workforce

Muscular skeletal problems

Common mental health problems

Burnout

Fatigue & sleep

Chronic conditions

Return to work following major illness

Emotional crossover

Flexible working hours

Extending work-life balance initiatives

The growing ‘gig’ economy

Aggression in the workplace

Managing within changing legal frameworks

Managing Organisational Sustainability.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Brough, Paula Handbook on Management and Employment Practices

ISBN:

3-030-29010-7