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Creating Healthy Workplaces

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Creating Healthy Workplaces book

Stress Reduction, Improved Well-being, and Organizational Effectiveness

Creating Healthy Workplaces

DOI link for Creating Healthy Workplaces

Creating Healthy Workplaces book

Stress Reduction, Improved Well-being, and Organizational Effectiveness
ByCaroline Biron, Ronald J. Burke
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 13 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574608
Pages 384 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315574608
SubjectsEconomics, Finance, Business & Industry
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Biron, C., Burke, R. (2014). Creating Healthy Workplaces. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574608

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

ByRonald J. Burke

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

ByHealth at Work Evelyn Kortum

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

ByDouglas W. Roblin, Brandi E. Robinson, Stacey A. Benjamin

chapter 7|20 pages

Effects of Workplace-based Physical Exercise Interventions on Cost Associated with Sickness Absence and on Productivity

ByUlrica von Thiele Schwarz, Henna Hasson and Petra Lindfors

chapter 8|16 pages

Services Vouchers: Tools to Prevent Stress and Enhance Well-being

ByNathalie Renaudin

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

ByKaterine Osatuke, Maureen Cash, Linda W. Belton, Sue R. Dyrenforth

chapter 10|14 pages

CREW as a Work Engagement Intervention

ByMichael P. Leiter

chapter 11|20 pages

Participative Climate as a Key for Creating Healthy Workplaces

ByKeiko Sakakibara Seki, Hirono Ishikawa, Yoshihiko Yamazaki

part |2 pages

PART 4 LEADERSHIP INTERVENTIONS

chapter 12|18 pages

Transformational Leadership Training for Managers: Effects on Employee Well-being

ByMeghan Donohoe, E. Kevin Kelloway

chapter 13|14 pages

How Positive Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry Can Help Leaders Create Healthy Workplaces

BySarah Lewis

part |2 pages

PART 5 IMPLEMENTING INTERVENTIONS

chapter 14|22 pages

Interventions to Prevent Mental Health Problems at Work: Facilitating and Hindering Factors

ByNathalie Jauvin, Renée Bourbonnais, Michel Vézina, Chantal Brisson, Sandrine Hegg-Deloye

chapter 15|20 pages

Implementation of an Organizational Intervention on Quality of Life at Work: Key Elements and Reflections

ByCaroline Biron, France St-Hilaire, Jean-Pierre Brun

chapter 16|18 pages

Merging Occupational Health, Safety and Health Promotion with Lean: An Integrated Systems Approach (the LeanHealth

ByProject) Terese Stenfors-Hayes, Henna Hasson, Hanna Augustsson, Helena Hvitfeldt Forsberg and Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz

chapter 17|22 pages

eHealth Interventions for Organizations: Potential Benefits and Implementation Challenges

ByHenna Hasson, Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz, Karin Villaume and Dan Hasson
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