Occupational Health and Wellbeing

This book incorporates real-world case studies to show how organisations and leaders can adapt after the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing from expert opinions across the world to highlight the current challenges and opportunities within this sector, it explores how these ideas can be effectively applied within the workplace.

This book bridges the gap between theory and practice, incorporating real-world case studies to show how organisations and leaders can adapt after the global unrest and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and more recent challenges. Drawing from expert opinions across the world to highlight the current challenges and opportunities within this sector, it explores how these ideas can be effectively applied within the workplace.

The book covers a wealth of topical and relevant themes that include defining wellbeing in a modern world, toxic leadership, mental health first aid, the application of positive psychology, and what the 'new normal' might look like. Together, these contributions offer a rich look into how Occupational Health and Wellbeing practices have developed, struggled and thrived. The COVID-19 pandemic forced many organisations to adapt fast and became the most significant accelerator in recent times for embracing, enhancing and improving employee health and wellbeing. Understanding this, the book demonstrates how Occupational Health and Wellbeing continues to rise on the corporate agenda as a key contributor to employee satisfaction, engagement and retention, increased financial stability and overall organisational success.

The book is essential reading for senior executives, leaders and professionals involved in occupational health, human resources, health, safety and wellbeing, people support, people development, employee assistance, counselling as well as students within organisational and occupational psychology.

Autorentext

Andrew Kinder is a Chartered Counselling and Chartered Occupational Psychologist and is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS). He is currently Professional Head of Mental Health Services at Optima Health (part of the Marlowe Group).

Rick Hughes is a Wellbeing Consultant, Aberdeen, Scotland, having been Head of Service of the University of Aberdeen Counselling Service and a Lead Advisor for the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP).

Cary L. Cooper is 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the ALLIANCE Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Inhalt

Part One: The Challenges of Occupational Health

1. Defining the Landscape, What is Occupational Health and What are the Key Challenges in Modern Workplaces related to Wellbeing?

Andrew Kinder, Rick Hughes & Cary Cooper

2. Managing Wellbeing: New, and Old, Challenges for Organisations

Gordon Tinline and Shaun Davis

3. Are Organisations inherently Toxic? An Exploration of Executive Toxicity, Workplace Bullying and Destructive Workplace Cultures

Daniela Pauknerova, Katerina Zabrodska and Michael Walton

4. Triggering Toxic Leadership: Risks to Employee Wellbeing when the Leader's Intentions are Blocked, Denied or Thwarted

Michael Walton

5. Miscarriage: The Next Challenge for Contemporary Workplaces

Alyssa Grocutt and Julian Barling

Part Two: The Business Imperatives to Manage Wellbeing in the Workplace Effectively

6. The Machine Can See You Now: Considering the use of Technology and Innovation to Extend Capacity and Capability to Deliver Health and Wellbeing Support

Steve Boorman

7. The Business Case for Managing Wellbeing Effectively within the Healthcare Sector within the UK: A Review of What Works

Zofia Bajorek and Stephen Bevan

8. Mental Health: A Twenty-First Century Imperative for Workplace Wellbeing

James Campbell Quick, Joanne H. Gavin, and David J. Gavin

Part Three: New Understandings on How to Boost the Occupational Health and Wellbeing of Employees

9. Difference, Dissent, Discussion and Disagreement: Diversity Means Nothing unless we Create Cultures that are Safe for All of These, Not from Them

Simon Fanshawe

10. Employee Assistance Programs in a Changing World: The Australasian Experience

Robert Compton and John McManus

11. The New Kid on The Block: A Review of Mental Health First Aid as a Workplace Mental Health Intervention

Susannah Robertson-Hart

12. Positive Psychology Interventions and Employee Wellbeing: When and for Whom are they Effective?

Deirdre O'Shea, Annekatrin Hoppe, Alexandra Michel, M. Gloria González-Morales and Anna Steidle

Part Four: New Opportunities in Employee Wellbeing Support - Organisational Responses

13. Coping in The New World: The Challenges of The 'New Normal' of Work and Life

Philip Dewe

14. Workplace Mediation and the Links to Occupational Health and Wellbeing

Tony Buon and Renu Raj

15. Engagement Through Disruption: Rhetoric, Reality and 'Reimagining' Wellbeing at Work

Tony Dundon, Dierdre O'Shea, Jean McCarthy and Marilena Pagoni