The Fulfilling Workplace: The Organization's Role in Achieving Individual and Organizational Health [Hardcover]

It is very easy for organizations to ignore or overlook the impact of social and commercial change-of increased pressure to deliver profit (above all else) and of transformation in the ways in which we are now working-on the mental health and, consequently, the performance of their employees. And yet there is plenty of evidence that in many workplaces, performance is down, stress is up and professional employees are struggling to balance their home and work lives. This collection, while looking at individuals, places the spotlight on organizational initiatives to support the development of attitudes, values, character and behaviors in employees. The aim of these initiatives is to increase our resilience to those experiences and events which impact on performance. There is a particular focus on managerial and professional jobs where employee discretion and commitment are critical. The Fulfilling Workplace extends the themes developed in early titles in the Psychological and Behavioral Aspects of Risk Series deeper into organizations; to explore the organization's role in coming to grips both with human frailties and toxic workplaces-both destructive to individual and organizational health.Contents: Part I Nature of the Issues: The healthy organization: reducing high-risk individual behavior and organizational toxicity, Ronald J. Burke. Part II Optimal Individual and Organizational Outcomes: Becoming fully engaged in the workplace: what individuals and organizations can do to foster work engagement, Arnold B. Bakker, Wido G.M. Oerlemans and Lieke L. ten Brummelhuis; Experiencing flow in the workplace and what individuals and organizations can do to foster it, Evangelia Demerouti and Clive J. Fullagar; Passion in organizations, Adrian Furnham; The importance of social capital in the workplace and how individuals and organizations can support its development, Fred O. Walumba and Amanda L. Christensen. Part III Individual Resources: Person-situated dynamics and wel(