Healthy and Productive Work

The Enterprise Culture of the 1980s helped transform economies of Western Europe, but left behind a legacy of stress, both for managers and shop floor workers. The cost to business is seen in absenteeism, reduced productivity, compensation claims, health insurance and direct medical costs, which in the US cost approximately $150 billion a year.

Lawrence R. Murphy and Cary Cooper

List of figures and tables, List of contributors, Preface, 1. Models of healthy work organizations, PART I - Targeted organizational change based on employee survey data, 2. Using employee opinion surveys to improve organizational health, 3. Improving organizational effectiveness through integration of core values, 4. Managing change in healthcare: a study of one hospital system's efforts, 5. Improving communications and health in a government department, 6. The effects of promoting organizational health on worker well-being and organizational effectiveness in small and medium-sized enterprises, PART II - Company-wide policies and programs, 7. Building world-class performance in changing times, 8. Individual and organizational activities to build better health, 9. Bringing health to life, 10. Designing and implementing a managing pressure program at Marks & Spencer Pic, 11. Summary: developing healthy corporate cultures by reducing stressors at work, Index