Sinossi
This 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.
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Informazioni sull?autore
Paula Brough is a Professor of Organisational Psychology and Director of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Paula’s primary research and teaching areas are occupational stress and coping, employee mental health and wellbeing, work engagement, work-life balance, workplace conflict (bullying, harassment, toxic leadership), and the psychosocial work environment. Paula assesses how work environments can be improved via job redesign, supportive leadership practices, and enhanced equity to improve employee health, work commitment, and productivity. Paula has authored over 60 industry reports, over 150 journal articles and book chapters, and has produced 9 scholarly books based on her research. Paula is an Associate Editor of Work & Stress, and is Board member of Journal of Organizational Behaviour, International Journal of Stress Management, and the BPS Work-Life Balance Bulletin. Paula is a Fellow of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology and a Fellow of the Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work.
Kevin Daniels is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. He has a PhD in Applied Psychology (1992), is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His research covers approaches to health, safety and wellbeing, originally with particular focus on the psychology of job design and more latterly an interest multidisciplinary approaches to wellbeing. He has authored or co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles, 30 book chapters and 20 books or major reports. From 2015-2021, he was lead investigator for an evidence programme on work and wellbeing, one of the foundational research programmes of the UK’s What Works Centre for Wellbeing. From 2015-2019, he served as editor of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, and also in associate editor positions at the British Journal of Management, Human Relations and Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
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This 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.
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