Book description
Part of the six-volume reference set Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, this volume is a comprehensive look at wellbeing in the workplace at organizational, managerial, and individual levels.
Discusses the implications of theory and practice in the field of workplace wellbeing
Incorporates not only coverage of workplace stress in relation to wellbeing, but also aspects of positive psychology
Explores the role of governments in promoting work place well being
Part of the six-volume set Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, which brings together leading research on wellbeing from across the social sciences
Topics include work-life balance; coping strategies and characters of individuals; characteristics of workplaces and organizational strategies that are conducive to wellbeing; and many more
Table of contents
- Cover
- Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Full Contents of Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide
- Introduction to Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide
- Part 1: Introduction
- Part 2: Resources, Coping, and Control
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Part 3: Happy Workers and Happy Organizations
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Chapter 6: The Happy Worker
- Introduction
- How are Happy Workers Conceptualized?
- The Happy–Productive Worker Thesis
- Job Satisfaction and Worker Performance
- Significance of the Happy–Productive Worker Thesis
- Positive Organizational Scholarship
- What Factors Would Facilitate and Inhibit in the Course of Being Happy Workers?
- Outcomes (Individual, Work, Family, Life, etc.) of Being Happy Workers
- Summary and Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 7: Organizational Characteristics of Happy Organizations
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Chapter 6: The Happy Worker
- Part 4: Character and Wellbeing
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Part 5: Organizational Strategies to Promote Wellbeing
- Chapter 10: Cancer, Work, and the Quality of Working Life
- Chapter 11: Lead Well, Be Well
- Chapter 12: Organizational Coping Strategies and Wellbeing
- Chapter 13: Workplace Mistreatment
- Chapter 14: The Sustainable Workforce
- Chapter 15: Development of a Theoretically Grounded Model of Sexual Harassment Awareness Training Effectiveness
- Chapter 16: The Working Wounded
- Chapter 17: Job Stress in University Academics
- Part 6: From Research to National Policy
- Index
Product information
- Title: Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Volume III, Work and Wellbeing
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
- ISBN: 9781118608364
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