Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction.- 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.
