The Role of Organizations in Promoting Health and Wellbeing

Susan Cartwright and Cary L. Cooper

Chapter Chapter 7 in Innovations in Stress and Health, 2011, pp 153-172 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The performance and financial health of any organization is dependent upon it having a physically and psychologically healthy workforce who are appropriately trained, well motivated and focused on their work. Interest in the concept of the ‘healthy organization’ has continued to grow amongst researchers, employers and policymakers throughout the developed economies as evidence mounts that absence due to psychological disorders, mainly the result of work-related stress, is growing. Implicit in the traditional concept of a healthy organization is the notion that an aggregation of individually physically and psychologically healthy workers equals a healthy company and that the foci of health promotion and wellness programs should be directed at changing the lifestyles and behaviors of the individual to reduce the risk of them becoming ill.

Keywords: Positive Psychology; Life Balance; Workplace Stress; Employee Assistance Programme; Healthy Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230321007_7

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