Managing Healthy Organizations - Worksite Health Promotion and the New Self-Management Paradigm

Informationen zum Autor Mikael Holmqvist is a Professor at the School of Business, Stockholm University, Sweden. His latest books are The Instiutionalization of Social Welfare (Routledge, 2008) and The Disabling State of an Active Society (Ashgate, 2009). Christian Maravelias is an Associate Professor at the School of Business, Stockholm University, Sweden. His latest publications are 'Health Promotion and Flexibility, Extending and Obscuring Power in Organizations', British Journal of Management, Vol. 20, 1, 194-203, 'Make your presence known! - Post-bureaucracy, HRM and the fear of being unseen', Personnel Review, vol 38 (4), 349-265. Klappentext Work-site health promotion is generally thought to be a good thing, but little research has been conducted on the other side of the work-health nexus: how employers factor health considerations into workforce management and productivity control. With the advancement of work-site health promotion in contemporary organizations, Holmqvist and Maravelias argue that this narrow focus, and the typical uncritical standpoint towards initiatives which are taken in the name of employees' health, is inadequate. Zusammenfassung This book studies worksite health promotion as a way of managing organizations. It examines the character of corporate health experts’ work, the social contexts of their profession, their striving for influence, the way they try to affect people’s thinking and behaviour, and the organizational ethic and culture that they contribute to construct. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Management and Health 3. Health Promotion as Management 4. Scania - SPS and the ‘New Employee’ 5. Policies and Ambitions in Managing Health 6. Spreading the Ideas and Ideals of Health Promotion 7. Practices and Procedures in Managing Health 8. Conclusions 9. Social and Political Implications

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• Authors: Mikael Holmqvist, Mikael (Stockholm Business School Holmqvist, Mikael (Stockholm University Holmqvist, Mikael Maravelias Holmqvist, HOLMQVIST MIKAEL MARAVELIAS CHRI, Christian Maravelias, Christian (Stockholm University Maravelias, Maravelias Christian
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2010
• EAN: 9780415873895
• ISBN: 978-0-415-87389-5
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Routledge Studies in Human Res; Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Office Management, Organizational theory & behaviour, Personnel & human resources management, Personnel and human resources management, Organizational theory and behaviour