Employee Well-being Support: A Workplace Resource

by Editor: Andrew Kinder (Atos Origin); Editor: Rick Hughes (Calma Partnership); Co-Editor: Cary L. Cooper (University of Manchester, UK)

• ISBN13: 9780470060018
• ISBN10: 0470060018
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Employees have a set of needs as part of the 'psychological contract' of employment. However, organizations operate for a reason and they too have agendas and needs. It is how the two come together that determines the capacity for good human relations and optimum productivity. Employee Well-being Support is an edited collection of expert contributions that explores all key issues in this increasingly critical area.

Table of Contents

About The Editors

List of Contributors

Foreword - The Fourth Wave

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Adapting to Change

Organisational Behaviour Issues and Well-being

In Consideration of a Toxic Workplace: a Suitable Place for Treatment

Leading to a Healthy Workplace

Understanding and Improving Psychological Well-being for Individual and Organisational Effectiveness

Employee Well-being: the Heart of Positive Organizational Behavior

Employee Support Strategies in Large Organisations

Coaching Skills for Managers

Behaviour Risk Management

Positive Coping Strategies at Work

Organisational Duty of Care: Workplace Counselling as a Shield against Litigation?

Managing Diversity

Understanding Mental Health - a Guide for All Employees

Responding to Specific Organisational Challenges

Organisational Responses to Traumatic Incidents

Managing Suicide and Sudden Death within Organisations

Bullying and Mistreatment at Work: How Managers May Prevent and Manage Such Problems

Counselling and Coaching in Organisations: An Integrative Multi-Level Approach

What Makes a Good Employee Assistance Programme?

Tackling the Macho Culture

Mental Health, Emotions and Work

Rehabilitation of Mental Health Disabilities

An Organisational Approach to the Rehabilitation of Employees Following Stress-Related Illness

Stress Management for Employees: an Evidence-based Approach

Perspectives on Managing Workplace Conflict

Whose Agenda Does Workplace Counselling Serve?

The Emergence of Coaching as a New Profession and Its Global Influence

Mentoring and Employee Well-being

Building Resilience - An Organisational Cultural Approach to Mental Health and Well-being at Work: A Primary Prevention Programme

Index

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