Day / Kelloway / Hurrell Workplace Well-being

How to Build Psychologically Healthy Workplaces
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-46941-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, E-Book

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Day, Arla

Kelloway, E. Kevin

Hurrell, Joseph J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors vii
Contributors ix
Preface xvi
Part I Introduction 1
1 Building a Foundation for Psychologically Healthy Workplacesand 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 Healthier175
David M. DeJoy and Lindsay J. Della
Part III Building a Psychologically Healthy Workplace203
10 Respectful Workplaces 205
Michael P. Leiter and Ashlyn Patterson
11 Leadership and Climate in a Psychologically Healthy Workplace226
Karina Nielsen
12 Unions and Changes in Working Life: New Challenges, NewOpportunities 245
Katharina Näswall and Magnus Sverke
13 Corporate Social Responsibility and Psychologically HealthyWorkplaces 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

Über Autor(innen)

Arla Day is the Canada Research Chair and Professor ofIndustrial/Organizational Psychology at Saint Mary'sUniversity, Canada. She is a fellow of the Canadian PsychologicalAssociation, and she is a founding member of both the CN Centre forOccupational Health and Safety and the Centre for LeadershipExcellence, Canada. She chairs the Psychologically HealthyWorkplace Award committee in Nova Scotia, Canada, which recognizesorganizations for their commitment to the health and safety oftheir employees. She is Associate Editor for the Journal ofOccupational Health Psychology. Her research and consultingfocus on occupational health psychology, stress and well-being,healthy workplaces, work-life interface, and workplaceinterventions.
E. Kevin Kelloway is the Canada Research Chair inOccupational Health Psychology and a Professor of Psychology atSaint Mary's University, Canada. He is a fellow of theAssociation for Psychological Science, the Canadian PsychologicalAssociation, and the Society for Industrial & OrganizationalPsychology. In addition to serving on several editorial boards, heis Associate Editor of Work & Stress, section editor forStress & Health, and associate editor for the Journalof Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance. He haspublished over 150 articles, chapters, and reports and hasauthored/edited 13 books. He maintains an active consultingpractice in areas related to occupational health psychology andhuman resource management.
Joseph J. Hurrell, Jr. is an Adjunct Professor ofPsychology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Canada, andan affiliate of the Canadian National Centre for OccupationalHealth and Safety. He is the current Editor of the Journal ofOccupational Health Psychology, which he cofounded. Prior tohis current appointments, he was employed for over 30 years as aresearcher and administrator by the U.S. Center for Disease Controland Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safetyand Health (NIOSH). He has authored over 100 scientificpublications and 8 books, serves on the advisory boards of majorU.S. occupational health and safety research and educationprograms, and is internationally recognized for his work.