Creating Healthy Workplaces: Stress Reduction, Improved Well-being, and Organizational Effectiveness
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1. Verfasser: Biron, Caroline (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2014
Schriftenreihe:Psychological and behavioral aspects of risk series
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Beschreibung:Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; About the Editors; About the Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Improving Individual and Organizational Health; Part 1 Creating Healthy Workplaces: Models and Approaches; 2 The WHO Global Approach to Protecting and Promoting Health at Work; 3 Work and the Dynamics of Development: An Integrated Model; 4 ACT: A Third Wave Behavioural-Cognitive Approach to Creating Healthy Workplaces; Part 2 Work-Life Balance and Physical Health Interventions; 5 Improving Employee Health and Work-Life Balance
6 A Worksite Wellness Programme for Reducing Cardiovascular Risks7 Effects of Workplace-based Physical Exercise Interventions; 8 Services Vouchers: Tools to Prevent Stress and Enhance Well-being; Part 3 Civility, Engagement and Participation; 9 Civility, Respect and Engagement in the Workplace (CREW); 10 CREW as a Work Engagement Intervention; 11 Participative Climate as a Key for Creating Healthy Workplaces; Part 4 Leadership Interventions; 12 Transformational Leadership Training for Managers; 13 How Positive Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry Can Help Leaders Create Healthy Workplaces
Part 5 Implementing Interventions14 Interventions to Prevent Mental Health Problems at Work; 15 Implementation of an Organizational Intervention on Quality of Life at Work; 16 Merging Occupational Health, Safety and Health Promotion with Lean; 17 eHealth Interventions for Organizations; Conclusion: Positive vs. Stress Interventions -- Does it Really Matter?; Index
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
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