Organizational Interventions for Health and Well-being

This important new collection provides not only a comprehensive overview of how organizational interventions can support and extend health and well-being among workers, but also the practical issues faced in their design, implementation and evaluation.

Autorentext

Karina Nielsen holds the Chair of Work Psychology and is Director of the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her main research interests lie within designing, implementing and evaluating organizational interventions.

Andrew Noblet is a Professor in Organisational Behaviour at Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Australia, and Co-Director of the Centre for Organisational Health and Consumer Wellbeing. Much of his recent work has focused on planning, implementing and evaluating strategies aimed at enhancing the health of works and the environments in which they work.

Inhalt

Introduction: Organizational interventions: Where we are, where we go from here? Karina Nielsen and Andrew Noblet

Part 1: Planning and implementing organizational interventions

1. Using high-involvement Fishbone workshops to transform problem identification into tailor-made organizational interventions by Christine Ipsen, Ole Henning Sørensen, Signe Poulsen and Liv Gish

2. Getting everyone on the same page: Cocreated program logic (COP) by Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz, Anne Richter and Henna Hasson

3. Participatory interventions in call centres by Carolyn Axtell and David Holman

Part 2: Evaluating organizational interventions

4. Valid and taken seriously? A new approach to evaluating Kaizen-inspired (and other) intervention tools by Christian Dyrlund Wåhlin-Jacobsen

5. Evaluation of the Preparatory Phase of a Stress Intervention: A Case Study from the Australian Public Sector by Maureen F. Dollard and Amy Zadow

6. Tricks of the trade: Practical advice from the PIPPI project for evaluating organizational interventions by Johan Simonsen Abildgaard

Part 3: New directions

7. Supporting participatory organizational interventions: New opportunities, roles and responsibilities for researchers and OSH professionals by Robert A. Henning, Michelle M. Robertson and Alicia G. Dugan ****

8. Applying an integrated approach to workplace mental health in SMEs: A case of the "too hard basket" or picking some easy wins? by Angela J. Martin and Anthony D. LaMontagne

9. Supporting interventions: Enabling senior management to enhance the effectiveness of a training program for line managers by Henna Hasson, Caroline Lornudd, Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz and Anne Richter

10. Leadership and Team Development to improve organizational health by Georg F. Bauer & Gregor J. Jenny

Epilogue: Critical reflections and the way forward Andrew Noblet and Karina Nielsen