WELL-BEING: Productivity and Happiness at Work

✍ Scribed by Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is the second edition of Well-being: Productivity and Happiness at Work that shows how to improve well-being in organizations. As with its predecessor, this new edition is remarkably timely. It explores the latest findings in the research on wellbeing and offers practical guidelines to the reader on how to promote well-being, productivity and happiness at work

High levels of well-being at work are good for the employee and the organization. It means lower sickness-absence levels, better retention and more satisfied customers. People with higher levels of well-being live longer, pursue happier lives and are easier to work with.

This updated edition provides an extensive overview of resilience at work and how this affects wellbeing. It introduces new topics such as what organizations need to consider about wellbeing in the context of an ageing workforce. It provides new case studies that have been conducted in the last few years including a case study on health and wellbeing in the Civil Service.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
For Individuals (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper)....Pages 3-13
For Organizations (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper)....Pages 15-29
Well-Being and Employee Engagement (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper)....Pages 31-42
Front Matter ....Pages 43-43
Psychological Well-Being (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper)....Pages 45-55
Measuring Well-Being and Workplace Factors (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper)....Pages 57-70
Front Matter ....Pages 71-71
The Whole Person and Psychological Well-Being (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper)....Pages 73-88
Work and Well-Being (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper)....Pages 89-108
Front Matter ....Pages 109-109
Improving Psychological Well-Being: Personal Development and Resilience (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper)....Pages 111-123
Improving Well-Being: Building a Healthy Workplace (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper)....Pages 125-136
Front Matter ....Pages 137-138
Wellbeing and Resilience at Rolls-Royce (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper, David Roomes)....Pages 139-147
Mental Health—The BT Journey (So Far) (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper, Paul Litchfield)....Pages 149-160
Health and Wellbeing in the Civil Service (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper, Civil Service Employee Policy)....Pages 161-171
On Track for Wellbeing: Everyone Fit for the Future (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper, Vikkie Buxton-Cope, Brenda Desbonne-Smith)....Pages 173-177
Tesco Bank Wellbeing Case Study (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper, John Dickinson, Nigel Jones)....Pages 179-188
Wellbeing in the John Lewis Partnership (Sheena Johnson, Ivan Robertson, Cary L. Cooper, Nick Davison)....Pages 189-197
Back Matter ....Pages 199-213

✦ Subjects

Human Resource Management