Workplace Well-being

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How to Build Psychologically Healthy Workplaces

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Workplace Well-being delves into the psychological and philosophical aspects of creating a healthier work environment. The book explores strategies for enhancing mental health and job satisfaction, offering insights into how employees and employers can cultivate a supportive culture. It provides research-backed practices and examines the ethical implications of well-being in professional settings.
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This book may appeal to you if you are interested in enhancing mental and emotional health within the workplace. Delving into both philosophical and psychological insights, it offers strategies and perspectives on creating a supportive and thriving work environment. If you’re curious about understanding and improving workplace dynamics, this could be an engaging read for you.

Workplace Well-being

Workplace Wellbeing introduces both practitioners and psychologists to the principles of a psychologically healthy workplace. It combines theoretical, research-based, and best practice evidence to create a unifying framework through which to examine healthy workplaces.

Description

Workplace Well-being 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, this book introduces the core components of psychologically healthy workplaces, including health and safety, leadership, employee involvement, development, recognition, work-life balance, culture, and communication.

It 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.

Additionally, Workplace Well-being discusses factors that influence the physical safety of employees, as well as their physical and psychological health.

Bringing together stellar scholars from around the world, including the US, Canada, Europe, Israel, and Australia, this book is an essential read for those looking to foster a healthy workplace environment.

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Workplace Well-being features contributions from a diverse range of international professionals, offering a wide-ranging analysis of psychological factors that affect workplace health. The book is recommended for those interested in understanding the positive and negative influences in work environments and the essential elements for creating a healthy workplace.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118469453

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 June 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

Edited by Arla Day
Edited by E. Kevin Kelloway
Edited by Joseph J. Hurrell

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 173.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 553g

Pages: 368

Collections

Business & Entrepreneurship Business Leadership & Management Company Culture & Human Resources Education & Reference Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology

About the Author

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.