Achieving Sustainable Workplace Wellbeing

This book focuses on organizational analysis to understand workplace wellbeing and creates theoretical frameworks to improve and sustain it. It uses evidence from surveys and empirical research to present an explanatory framework of processes through which organizations change to implement and accommodate workplace health and wellbeing practices. Learning, adaptation and continuation explain successful implementation, while Gestalting, fracturing and grafting explain conflict resolution. The authors also reflect on the implications for research and the creation of social value in organizations.

Format: Hardback
Length: 164 pages
Publication date: 08 July 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, the authors delve into the realm of organizational analysis to unravel the intricacies of workplace well-being, departing from the traditional focus on individual workers or interventions. By addressing the question of why workplace health and wellbeing practices fail to deliver sustained improvements in worker well-being, this book goes beyond localized explanations of the failure of specific interventions. Instead, it presents theoretical frameworks that elucidate how workplace well-being can be enhanced and sustained. Drawing upon evidence from systematic and comprehensive surveys of the literature and new empirical research, the authors offer an explanatory framework that outlines the processes through which organizations transform to implement and accommodate workplace health and wellbeing practices.

Learning, adaptation, and continuation emerge as key factors in successful implementation of workplace health and wellbeing practices, while Gestalting, fracturing, and grafting shed light on how organizations navigate or reconcile conflicts between health and wellbeing practices and existing organizational procedures, systems, and practices. Moreover, the authors contemplate the implications for research by reframing the unit of analysis as the organization and how studies on workplace wellbeing practices can provide a conceptual foundation for understanding how organizations can create social value in a broader sense.

This book, penned by esteemed experts in their respective fields, serves as an invaluable resource for academics, professionals, and scholars engaged in organizational studies, worker well-being, social sciences, behavioral sciences, business and management courses, wellbeing research, and labor studies. Its comprehensive approach and insightful frameworks offer valuable insights into the complex dynamics of workplace health and well-being, paving the way.

Weight: 416g
Dimension: 160 x 242 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031006647
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022