The healthy workforce : enhancing wellbeing and productivity in the workers of the future /

Examining how workforce physical and mental health is becoming an increasingly vital contemporary challenge for businesses, governments and employees. Tracing the impact on direct and indirect productivity costs and analysing the development of the topic into a core issue in the future world of work...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Bevan, S. (Stephen) (Autor), Cooper, Cary L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Future of work (Emerald Publishing)
Temas:
Employees > Mental health.
Employee health promotion.
Labor productivity.
Performance technology.
Industrial productivity.
Psychology, Industrial.
Psychology, Industrial
Personnel > Santé mentale.
Promotion de la santé en milieu de travail.
Productivité.
Psychologie du travail.
Occupational & industrial psychology.
Health & Fitness, Work-Related Health.
Performance technology
Industrial productivity
Employee health promotion
Employees > Mental health
Labor productivity
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Why Worker Health and Productivity Matter
  • 2. How Health Affects Productivity
  • 2.1 The Context
  • Health as a 'Factor of Production'
  • 2.2 Three Ways of Thinking about Health and Productivity
  • 2.3 Labour Market Participation, Ill-health and Productivity
  • 2.3.1 Premature Mortality
  • 2.3.2 Health and Underemployment
  • 2.3.3 Discrimination in Employment
  • 2.3.4 Reduced Working Time
  • 2.3.5 Premature Withdrawal from the Labour Market
  • 2.4 Productive Capacity and Health in the Workplace
  • 2.4.1 Sickness Absence Costs
  • Over-egging the Pudding?
  • 2.4.2 Presenteeism Costs and Consequences
  • 2.4.3 Implications
  • 2.5 The Impact of Health on Task Performance
  • 2.5.1 Symptom Severity
  • 2.5.2 Health and Task Performance at Work
  • 2.5.3 Health and Executive Functions at Work
  • 2.6 Summary
  • References
  • 3. Health and Work in a Pandemic
  • 3.1 COVID-19 and the Health of the Workforce
  • 3.2 In the COVID-19 Front Line
  • The Health of Key Workers
  • 3.3 COVID-19 and the Social Gradient in Health
  • 3.4 Working from Home
  • 'Lockdown' as Laboratory
  • 3.4.1 Capturing Data from the Captives
  • 3.4.2 Work-Life Balance under Pressure
  • 3.4.3 Messages for Managers
  • 3.5 Mental Health at Work and COVID-19
  • 3.6 Returning to Work after 'Lockdown'
  • 3.7 Towards the 'New Normal'?
  • References
  • 4. Is Your Manager Bad for Your Health?
  • 4.1 Danger: Managers at Work
  • 4.2 Are Managers the 'Squeezed Middle' of Organisations?
  • 4.3 How Do Managers Influence Health and Productivity?
  • 4.4 Helping Employees to 'Flourish'
  • 4.5 Management Support and Mental Health at Work
  • 4.6 Random Acts of Kindness Are Allowed
  • References
  • 5. Productivity at Work: The Role of Healthcare Professionals
  • 5.1 Work as a Clinical Outcome?
  • 5.2 Prevention
  • 5.3 The Role of Primary Care
  • 5.4 Secondary Care
  • 5.5 Vocational Rehabilitation
  • 5.6 Productive Work as a Healthcare Outcome
  • References
  • 6. Workplace Health Interventions to Improve Productivity
  • 6.1 Which Workplace Health Initiatives Encourage Employee Participation?
  • 6.2 Which Interventions Deliver the Best Financial Payback?
  • 6.3 Which Interventions Have Most Impact on Performance and Productivity?
  • 6.4 Which Interventions Have the Strongest Evidence Base?
  • 6.5 Which Interventions Best Support Other HR Initiatives?
  • 6.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • 7. Rethinking Workforce Health as an Asset
  • 7.1 Health at Work: Getting the Attention of Investors
  • 7.1.1 Accounting for Human Capital
  • 7.1.2 Reporting Employee Well-being as an Intangible Asset
  • 7.1.3 Linking Workforce Well-being to Business Performance Metrics
  • 7.1.4 Can Investors Force Well-being onto the Board Agenda?
  • 7.2 Health and Job Performance: A 'Win-win' Situation?

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