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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.
List of contents
Part One: The Challenges of Occupational Health1. 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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
