Creating a Healthy Organisation

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'The book is well written and provides an account of practices and research in creating and sustaining a healthy organisation. It is a readable and implementable book.' -- Alaa Garad, Action Learning Research and Practice 'Sandra, Helen and Carianne make a significant contribution to our understanding of what a healthy organisation is. By revealing the antecedents, correlates and consequences of building healthy organisations in 10 distinct chapters, authors do not only identify health conditions for organisations but also explicate pathways for creating healthy organisations through change and development. This book will inform future research agendas and make its way to reading lists in organisational behaviour, employment relations and other relevant subjects.' -- Mustafa Ozbilgin, Brunel University London, UK 'Contemporary times have brought the issues of health of individuals and organisations into primary focus. The book deals with the antecedents and organisational interventions for promoting healthy organisations. Starting from the meaning of health and well-being at work, the authors through the 10 chapters have traced a broad range of related issues such as employee expectation, bullying and sexual harassment and the importance of building capacity for sustaining a healthy workplace. Through the book, Creating a Healthy Organisation: Perceptions, Learning, Challenges and Benefits, the authors Fielden, Woolnough and Hunt make a timely contribution to organisational literature. As health issues become a key factor in building an engaged workforce, the book is an essential reader for management students and organisations.' -- Tanuja Agarwala, University of Delhi, India 'Creating a Healthy Organisation: Perceptions, Learning, Challenges and Benefits is one of the first books to guide managers, employees, practitioners, scholars and students through what it takes to create an organisation that is viable, sustainable and effective in today's global marketplace. The book serves as a comprehensive guide for anyone who needs the tools and resources for understanding the underlying elements needed to create, evolve and maintain a healthy organisation. This is done through a series of well-researched and well-written series of chapters that strive to outfit the reader with the key elements needed at each stage of an organisation's beginnings, growth and development. As such, it is a must-read primer and a call to action for anyone interested in topics related to human resource management, organisational behaviour, organisational change and organisational development.' -- Andrea Smith-Hunter, Siena College, US