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Wellbeing for sustainability in the global workplace / edited by Paola Ochoa, Maria-Teresa Lepeley, and Peter Essens.

Contributor(s): Ochoa, Paola [editor] | Lepeley, María Teresa [editor] | Essens, Peter [editor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Human centered management (Routledge (Firm)): Publisher: London : Routledge, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xx, 151 pages : illustrations, 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780367734190 (paperback); 9781138600898 (hardback).Subject(s): Quality of work life | Well-being | Work environment | Industrial hygieneAdditional physical formats: Electronic version: Wellbeing for sustainability in the global workplace.DDC classification: 658.38 Also available in electronic form.
Contents:
Psychosocial wellbeing at work: reasons to invest in healthy employees and workplaces -- Wellbeing and gender parity in the workforce: need for a new global approach -- Wellbeing in organizations: dimensions and intersections -- Quality of work life in Brazil -- Safety and employee health and wellbeing -- Wellbeing@work: is buffering stress enough? -- Psychological risk: a European view -- An entrepreneurship-based model to foster organizational wellbeing -- Wellbeing challenges of millennials: South Africa’s “Born Free” generation -- Exploring education for wellbeing in Peru.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 658.38 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MTU Cork Module CMOD8002-Supplementary reading. 00220362
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Wellbeing in the workplace is an essential element in fostering a worker's sense of being valued, ensuring their engagement, and ultimately leading to higher levels of productivity and organizational performance. This important book specifically adds to the discussion by taking a global perspective, and evaluates wellbeing in the workplace in different countries, identifying both universal issues and specific cultural issues.





Chapter authors have been drawn from across five continents and eleven countries to provide ground-breaking research in wellbeing from different regional perspectives, looking at both developed and developing world scenarios. What is clear throughout the book is that organizations that are notpeople-centered undermine their capacity to attain and maintain quality standards, high performance, and competitiveness.





Organizational concerns about workers' wellbeing are growing exponentially due to the global VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment. In this environment, organizational success is no longer simply based on short-term revenue maximization, capital investments, or sales, but increasingly depends on people's wellbeing, human capital, and the development of human talent to ensure sustained and sustainable growth and performance. This book presents a collection of studies that address current and forthcoming organizational challenges and offer realistic solutions to support leaders and managers seeking to balance and value the contribution of people with long-term organizational performance.

Originally published: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Psychosocial wellbeing at work: reasons to invest in healthy employees and workplaces -- Wellbeing and gender parity in the workforce: need for a new global approach -- Wellbeing in organizations: dimensions and intersections -- Quality of work life in Brazil -- Safety and employee health and wellbeing -- Wellbeing@work: is buffering stress enough? -- Psychological risk: a European view -- An entrepreneurship-based model to foster organizational wellbeing -- Wellbeing challenges of millennials: South Africa’s “Born Free” generation -- Exploring education for wellbeing in Peru.

MTU Cork Module CMOD8002- Supplementary reading.

Also available in electronic form.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of figures (p. xi)
  • List of tables (p. xii)
  • About the editors (p. xiii)
  • List of contributing authors (p. xv)
  • Preface (p. xix)
  • Part I Understanding wellbeing (p. 1)
  • 1 Psychosocial wellbeing at work: reasons to invest in healthy employees and workplaces (p. 3)
  • 2 Wellbeing and gender parity in the workforce: need for a new global approach (p. 15)
  • 3 Wellbeing in organizations: dimensions and intersections (p. 32)
  • Part II Wellbeing and work (p. 43)
  • 4 Quality of Work Life in Brazil (p. 45)
  • 5 Safety and employee health and wellbeing (p. 58)
  • 6 Wellbeing@work: is buffering stress enough? (p. 76)
  • 7 Psychological risk: a European view (p. 85)
  • Part III Emerging forms of wellbeing (p. 101)
  • 8 An entrepreneurship-based model to foster organizational wellbeing (p. 103)
  • 9 Wellbeing challenges of millennials: South Africa's "Born Free" generation (p. 117)
  • 10 Exploring education for wellbeing in Peru (p. 133)
  • Index (p. 149)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Paola Ochoais a Professor at the Graduate School of Management ESPAE, ESPOL, Ecuador.





Maria-Teresa Lepeleyis the President and CEO at Global Institute for Quality Education. She has been a member of the Board of Examiners of the Baldridge National Quality Awards of the United States and adviser to National Quality Award Programs in Latin America.





Peter Essensis the Director of the Center of Expertise HRM & Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.