Achieving Sustainable Workplace Wellbeing: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space (Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being)

✍ Scribed by Kevin Daniels, Olga Tregaskis, Rachel Nayani, David Watson

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Edition: 1st ed. 2022
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, the authors focus on organizational analysis to understand workplace wellbeing, deviating from previous research that mostly looks at the individual worker or intervention. In addressing the question of why workplace health and wellbeing practices initiatives fall short of delivering sustained improvements in worker wellbeing, this book moves beyond localized explanations of the failure of specific interventions. Instead, it creates theoretical frameworks that explain how wellbeing at work can be improved and sustained. The authors use evidence from systematic and comprehensive surveys of the literature as well as new empirical research, and present an explanatory framework of the processes through which organizations change to implement and accommodate workplace health and wellbeing practices. Learning, adaptation and continuation explain successful implementation of workplace health and wellbeing practices, while Gestalting, fracturing and grafting explain how organizations resolve or negotiate conflict between health and wellbeing practices and existing organizational procedures, systems and practices. In addition, the authors reflect on the implications for research of reframing the unit of analysis as the organization and how studies on workplace wellbeing practices can provide a conceptual platform for thinking about the way organizations can create social value in a broader sense.

This book, authored by experts in their field, is a great resource for academics and professionals of organizational studies and of worker wellbeing across the social sciences, behavioural sciences, business and management courses, wellbeing research, and labour studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Introduction
Wellbeing
What Works and Why It Works
Primary Prevention Through Work Redesign
Primary Prevention Through Health Promotion
Secondary Interventions
Tertiary Interventions
Multicomponent Interventions
Implementation and a New Model
References
Chapter 2: Conceptual Models of Intervention Implementation
Frameworks to Guide Researchers
Frameworks to Guide Practice
Prior Systematic Reviews
Categorizing Existing Frameworks and the Case for an Alternative Approach
References
Chapter 3: Tangible Changes and Activated Mechanisms
No Effects: Implementation
No Effects: Context
Effects as Planned
Beneficial Effects Not as Planned
Adverse Effects
Conclusions
References
Chapter 4: Competing Logics
What Are the Competing Logics?
Evidence for Wellbeing Logics
Management of Competing Logics
Conclusions
References
Chapter 5: Actors and Implementation
Actors
The Delivery Context
Political and Symbolic Functions of the Delivery Context
Involving Others: Consultation and Coercion
Symbolism and Culture
Conclusions
References
Chapter 6: Making Things Work: Learning, Adaptation and Continuation
Learning Structures
Continuation
Conclusions
References
Chapter 7: Putting the Workplace Back into Workplace Wellbeing
Grafting
Fracturing
Gestalting
Conclusions
References
Chapter 8: Synergies, Capability and Authenticity
Synergies
Learning and Developing Implementation Capabilities
Undermining Health and Wellbeing Activities
Summary and Conclusions
References
Chapter 9: Conclusions and Extensions
Implications for Research Methodologies
Extensions: Implications for Other Areas of Enquiry
Overall Conclusions
References
Technical Appendix
Systematic Review of Intervention Studies and Review of Reviews
Qualitative Case Studies
Recruitment and Sample
Data Collection
Data Analysis