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Creating Healthy Workplaces
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ABSTRACT
The contributions in Creating Healthy Workplaces include a number of interventions that relate the efforts undertaken by researchers and organizations together, 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. With the growing influence of the positive movement, this book explores the implications of using a positive approach as opposed to a stress management one and compares the types of interventions they each require. From a positive perspective, there is a need to understand the characteristics of healthy, thriving, and flourishing people and organizations. This book explores the implications of using a positive approach as opposed to a stress management one. Some of the interventions described in Creating Healthy Workplaces target individuals and their attitudes and behaviours, others target workplace relationships, work units and the wider organization. Outcomes such as reduced occurrences of smoking, obesity, depression, elevated blood pressure, accidents and workplace injuries, presenteeism, absence and staff turnover are reported. The factors associated with the success of these interventions are identified and advice is given as to how interested individuals and organizations might proceed to develop worksite interventions on their own.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|20 pages
Improving Individual and Organizational Health: Implementing and Learning from Interventions
part |2 pages
PART 1 CREATING HEALTHY WORKPLACES: MODELS AND APPROACHES
chapter 2|13 pages
The WHO Global Approach to Protecting and Promoting Health at Work
chapter 3|14 pages
Work and the Dynamics of Development: An Integrated Model
chapter 4|14 pages
ACT: A Third Wave Behavioural-Cognitive Approach to Creating Healthy Workplaces
part |2 pages
PART 2 WORK–LIFE BALANCE AND PHYSICAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
chapter 5|25 pages
Improving Employee Health and Work–Life Balance:
chapter 6|18 pages
A Case Study in the Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Worksite Wellness Programme for Reducing Cardiovascular Risks
chapter 7|20 pages
Effects of Workplace-based Physical Exercise Interventions on Cost Associated with Sickness Absence and on Productivity
chapter 8|16 pages
Services Vouchers: Tools to Prevent Stress and Enhance Well-being
part |2 pages
PART 3 CIVILITY, ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION
chapter 9|22 pages
Civility, Respect and Engagement in the Workplace (CREW): Creating Organizational Environments that Work for All
chapter 11|20 pages
Participative Climate as a Key for Creating Healthy Workplaces
part |2 pages
PART 4 LEADERSHIP INTERVENTIONS
chapter 12|18 pages
Transformational Leadership Training for Managers: Effects on Employee Well-being
chapter 13|14 pages
How Positive Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry Can Help Leaders Create Healthy Workplaces
part |2 pages
PART 5 IMPLEMENTING INTERVENTIONS