Workplace Well-being How to Build Psychologically Healthy Workplaces

Workplace Wellbeing is a complete guide to understanding and implementing the principles of a psychologically healthy workplace for psychologists and other practitioners.

• Grounded in the latest theory and research yet filled with plenty of case studies and proven techniques
• Introduces the core components of psychologically healthy workplaces, including health and safety, leadership, employee involvement, development, recognition, work-life balance, culture and communication
• Addresses important issues such as the role of unions, the importance of leadership, healthy workplaces in small businesses, respectful workplace cultures, and corporate social responsibility
• Discusses factors that influence the physical safety of employees, as well as their physical and psychological health
• Brings together stellar scholars from around the world, including the US, Canada, Europe, Israel, and Australia

Arla Day is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Saint Mary's University, Canada. She is a founding member of both the CN Centre for Occupational Health and Safety and the Centre for Leadership Excellence. She currently co-chairs the Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award committee in Nova Scotia, which recognizes organizations for their commitment to the health and safety of their employees. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Calgary and a research associate of the Canadian Forces Leadership Institute. She is active in several professional associations, and was on the executive committee of the Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology for over seven years.

E. Kevin Kelloway is the Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health Psychology and Professor of Psychology at Saint Mary’s University, Canada. He is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology.  In addition to serving on several editorial boards, he is associate editor of Work & Stress and section editor for Stress & Health. He has published over 100 articles, chapters and reports, and his authored and edited books include Management of Occupational Health and Safety, Fourth Edition (2007), Handbook of Work Stress (2005), and Flexible Work Arrangements (Wiley, 1998).

Joseph J. Hurrell, Jr., is currently Adjunct Professor of Psychology at St. Mary’s University, Canada, and an affiliate of the CN Centre for Occupational Health and Safety in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is editor of the APA’s Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, of which he was a co-founder. Prior to his current appointments, he was affiliated with the United States’ National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), where he was a pioneer in the study of psychosocial factors in occupational health. He has authored over 100 articles and eight books, and is internationally recognized for his work.

Contributors ix

Preface xvi

Part I Introduction 1

1 Building a Foundation for Psychologically Healthy Workplaces and Well-Being 3
Arla Day and Krista D. Randell

2 Business Benefits of a Healthy Workforce 27
Cary Cooper and Stephen Bevan

3 Positive Psychology and the Healthy Workplace 50
Stephanie Gilbert and E. Kevin Kelloway

Part II The Psychologically Healthy Workplace 73

4 Occupational Health and Safety 75
Peter Y. Chen and Yiqiong Li

5 Introduction to Work–Life Balance 95
Leslie B. Hammer and Caitlin A. Demsky

6 Employee Empowerment and Engagement 117
Marisa Salanova and Susana Llorens

7 Employee Development and Growth 142
Raymond A. Noe and Michael J. Tews

8 Employee Recognition 161
Lois E. Tetrick and Clifford R. Haimann

9 Culture, Communication, and Making Workplaces Healthier 175
David M. DeJoy and Lindsay J. Della

Part III Building a Psychologically Healthy Workplace 203

10 Respectful Workplaces 205
Michael P. Leiter and Ashlyn Patterson

11 Leadership and Climate in a Psychologically Healthy Workplace 226
Karina Nielsen

12 Unions and Changes in Working Life: New Challenges, New Opportunities 245
Katharina Näswall and Magnus Sverke

13 Corporate Social Responsibility and Psychologically Healthy Workplaces 264
Jennifer L. Robertson and Julian Barling

14 Creating a Healthy Small Business 281
Sharon Clarke

15 Designing Healthy Workplaces 299
Catherine Loughlin and Danielle Mercer

16 Concluding Comments 324
Joseph J. Hurrell Jr.

Index 334

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