Missing Pieces: 7 Ways to Improve Employee Well-Being and Organizational Effectiveness

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Springer, Feb 10, 2016 - Business & Economics - 183 pages
Why is it that more and more people like their work, but can no longer support the conditions under which they must practice it? What is impeding the improvement of occupational health and organizational effectiveness? The authors share their knowledge of the missing pieces that are preventing these improvements to the workplace.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Chapter 1 Discover the Missing Pieces of Management
7
A Simple Act
19
Chapter 3 Support Your Employees
39
Chapter 4 Develop a Culture of Respect
59
Chapter 5 Reconcile Work with Personal Life
79
Chapter 6 Control the Workload
95
Chapter 7 Encourage and Support Autonomy and Participation in Decision Making
113
Chapter 8 Clarify Everyones Roles
137
Chapter 9 Move from Words to Action
153
Notes
169
Index
173
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JEAN-PIERRE BRUN is Executive Director at Stimulus (Paris, France) and professor in management at Université Laval, Quebec, Canada. He was a guest professor at the Lancaster University Management School, in the United Kingdom. A recipient of the Hermès award for excellence in research from Université Laval, he has also won the Canadian Workplace Wellness Pioneer Award. Brun has written many articles in academic and trade journals. His services are often sought as a scientific advisor, as a guest speaker and as a management consultant for occupational health and safety or occupational mental health management. www.jeanpierrebrun.com.

CARY COOPER is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University, UK. He was Founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Editor of the journal Stress and Health, President of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and Chair of the think tank The Sunningdale Institute in the UK's National School of Government. He has a number of Honorary Doctorates from a number of universities and received an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians. Professor Cooper was honoured with a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2001.

Honorary fellowship for Cary Cooper
http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/news/18953/honorary-fellowship-for-cary-c/

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