The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well-Being

by Susan Cartwright, Cary L. Cooper

Overview

In today's changing business environment, the financial health of an organization is increasingly dependent on the extent to which it and its members are able to transform and adapt to these changing internal and external circumstances more effectively than their competitors. Health has been identified as a key driver of socio-economic progress internationally, emphasizing the link between the health of individual workers and the overall performance of an organization. Equally, decades of research has highlighted the major role that work plays in determining physical health and psychological well being.

This handbook focuses on organizational well being in its widest sense, and is concerned with reviewing the factors which are associated with ill health, as well as those which promote positive health and well being. In it, leading international scholars focus on the key issues:

* Absenteeism and presenteeism
* Health and safety,
* Models, measures, and methodologies for measuring well being,
* Individual factors associated with well being such as leadership, emotion, stress, and risk and rewards,
* Organizational factors associated with well being such as working hours, emotional labour, technology, and job insecurity,
* Organizational strategies for improving individual well being.

The handbook ends with two chapters setting out new perspectives - the link between well being and geography and climate, and the importance of corporate social responsibility in creating a sustainable and healthy work environment.

About the Series
Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management bring together the world's leading scholars on the subject to discuss current research and the latest thinking in a range of interrelated topics including Strategy, Organizational Behavior, Public Management, International Business, and many others. Containing completely new essays with extensive referencing to further reading and key ideas, the volumes, in hardback or paperback, serve as both a thorough introduction to a topic and a useful desk reference for scholars and advanced students alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199211913
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/15/2009
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Pages:	656
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Susan Cartwright is a Chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She is Professor of Organizational Psychology in the Manchester Business School at The University of Manchester, UK. Susan is currently the President of the British Academy of Management and a Fellow of the British Academy of Management. She is a past Editor of the Leadership and Organization Development Journal and a current Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management.

Susan has authored 13 books, over 40 scholarly articles and 30 book chapters. Her main research interests lie in the area of occupational stress and well being, human aspects of mergers and acquisitions and emotional intelligence. She was Editor of the Volume V of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management on Human Resource Management (Blackwell, 2005) and Co-Editor, with Cary L. Cooper and Christopher Early, of The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate (Wiley, 2001). Cary L. Cooper is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health in Lancaster University Management School and Pro Vice Chancellor (External Relations) at Lancaster University. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Royal Society of Medicine, and the Royal Society of Health.

Cary was the founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behaviour and is Co-Editor of Stress and Health. In 1998, he was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award for his contribution to management science from the US Academy of Management.

Cary is the author of over 100 books on occupational stress, women at work, and industrial and organizational psychology and has written over 400 scholarly articles.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Perspectives on Organizational Health, Susan Cartwright and Cary L. CooperSection I: The Costs and Indicators of Well Being in the Work Place2. Absenteeism or Presenteeism? Attendance Dynamics and Employee Well-Being, Gary Johns3. Accidents and Safety in the Workplace, Sharon ClarkeSection II: Models, Measures, and Methodologies for Assessing Well Being4. Environmental 'Vitamins', Personal Judgments, Work Values, and Happiness, Peter Warr5. Measuring Burnout, Christina Maslach, Michael P. Leiter, and Wilmar Schaufeli6. Job Control and Reward: Effects on Well Being, Johannes Siegrist7. Organizational Screening: The ASSET Model, Sheena JohnsonSection III: Individual Factors and Well Being8. Leadership, Psychological Well-Being, and Organizational Outcomes, Ivan T. Robertson and Jill Flint-Taylor9. Work-Life Balance: Individual and Organizational Strategies and Practices, Steven Poelmans, Heather Odle-Dusseau, and Barbara Beham10. Positive Emotions, Attitudes, and Health: Motivated, Engaged, Focused, James Campbell Quick, Laura M. Little, and Debra L. Nelson11. Stress and Coping, Michael P. O'Driscoll, Paula A. Brough, and Thomas J. Kalliath12. Work Hours, Work Intensity and Work Addiction: Risks and Rewards, Ronald J. Burke and Lisa FiksenbaumSection IV: Job/Organizational Factors and Well Being13. The Impact of Working Hours and Working Patterns on Physical and Psychological Health, Bruce Kirkcaldy, Adrian Furnham, and Roy Shephard14. Emotional Labour, Well-Being, and Performance, David Holman, David Martinez-Iñigo, and Peter Totterdell15. Technology and Health, Michael D. Coovert, Ashley A. Gray, Frederick R. B. Stilson, and Matthew S. Prewett16. Job Insecurity, Unemployment, and Organizational Well-Being: Oxymoron or Possibility?, Tahira M. Probst17. Building Employee Engagement, Job Satisfaction, Health, and Retention, Victor Callan and Sandra A. LawrenceSection V: Organizational Interventions to Promote Health and Well Being18. Mediators and Moderators of Organizational Interventions to Prevent Occupational Stress, Caroline Biron, Cary L. Cooper, and Frank W. Bond19. The Challenges of Developing, Implementing and Evaluating Interventions, Andrew J. Noblet and Anthony D. LaMontagne20. Organizational Coaching and Mentoring, Jonathan Passmore and Jodie AnagnosSection VI: New Perspectives21. Climato-economic Niches of Employee Well Being, Evert Van de Vliert22. Creating a Healthy Work Environment Through Sustainable Practices - Future Challenges, Erik Bichard