Well-being : productivity and happiness at work / Ivan Robertson and Cary Cooper.

High levels of psychological well-being amongst employees translate into good news for the organization, including lower sickness-absence levels, attraction and retention of talented people, and more satisfied customers, clients, or service users. People with higher levels of psychological well-bein...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robertson, Ivan T., 1946-
Other Authors: Cooper, Cary L.
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Physical Description:xv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part I: Why does well-being matter?
  • For individuals
  • For organizations
  • Well-being and employee engagement
  • Part II: What is well-being?
  • Psychological well-being
  • Measuring well-being and workplace factors
  • Part III: What influences well-being?
  • The whole person and psychological well-being
  • Work and well-being
  • Part IV: Getting the benefit
  • Improving psychological well-being
  • personal development and resilience
  • Improving well-being
  • building a healthy workplace
  • Part V: Case studies
  • Improving employee engagement and well-being in an NHS trust
  • Building an organizational culture of health
  • Engaging in health and well-being
  • The development of a comprehensive corporate health management system for well-being
  • The journey toward organizational resilience at the university of Leeds
  • Improving well-being at London fire brigade
  • On the use of Internet-delivered interventions in worksite health promotion
  • Mitigating the impact of an economic downturn on mental well-being
  • Keeping pressure positive: improving well-being and performance in the NHS through innovative leadership development.