Well-Being in the Workplace: Governance and Sustainability Insights to Promote Workplace Health

The health and well-being of people of working age are of fundamental importance to the future of work and organizational productivity globally. Growing evidence suggests that employee well-being at work can help improve physical and mental health, reduce health inequalities and offer improved opportunities for engagement, wellness at work, and productivity. The debate about the impact of working life on employee well-being has been intensified. Whilst the issue of employee well-being at work has reached a new level of importance in the minds of policy makers, managers, and employers there is still little evidence that attention has been paid to the worker's voice in their evaluation of HRM practices, line management leadership, the quality of working life and well-being at work in organizations. Research within these areas remain relatively untapped. Furthermore, understanding employees expectations of the psycho-social factors affecting the employment relationship and employee well-being at work are all lacking in the evidence base.This book seeks to contribute to the debate in these areas.

Chapter 1: A Introduction to Employee Well-Being Research Terrain.- Chapter 2: Historical and Theoretical Debates in Human Resources Management and High Performing Organisations.- Chapter 3: Workplace Well-Being: Understanding Psychologically 'WELL' Employees and the Sustainable Healthy Workplaces.- Chapter 4: Constructing Well-Being at Work: What Does It Mean?.- Chapter 5: A Methodological approach to Workplace Well-Being Research in a New Public Management Environment.- Chapter 6: Well-Being at Work: Understanding Employees Working Life Realities in the Public Sector Context - Observations and Documentary Analysis.- Chapter 7: Workplace Stress and Well-Being in the Workplace: The Workers' Voice.- Chapter 8: Mental Health and Well-Being in the Workplace.- Chapter 9: Multi-generational Workforce and Well-Being at work.- Chapter 10: Well-Being at Work with Limited Resources: A Public Sector Context.- Chapter 11: Work-Life-Balance and Well-being at Work: Strategies for Individual and Organizational Health and Potential.- Chapter 12: The Work Environment and Wellbeing at Work: Employees Experiences in the Public Sector.- Chapter 13: Beneath the Melting Ice: Definitions, Importance, and Improvement in Wellbeing at Work in Local Government.- Chapter 14: Quality of Working Life, Leadership, and Wellbeing in the Public Sector: Insights from Employees.- Chapter 15: Evaluation of Workplace Well-Being Research: Developing a Healthy Resilient and Sustainable Organization - A UK Public Sector Case Study.