Achieving Sustainable Workplace Wellbeing

Daniels, Kevin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8620-886X, Tregaskis, Olga ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9954-5152, Nayani, Rachel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8753-3322 and Watson, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7199-2866 (2022) Achieving Sustainable Workplace Wellbeing. Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being . Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-00664-7

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Abstract

Too often workplace health and wellbeing practices initiatives fall short of delivering sustained improvements in worker wellbeing. Implementation failure is often identified as the reason. How do we move beyond localized explanations of the failure of specific interventions to create theoretical frameworks that explain how wellbeing at work is improved and sustained? In this ground breaking inter-disciplinary work, the organization becomes the focal unit of analysis. This contrasts with the focus on previous research on the individual worker or intervention. Using evidence from systematic and comprehensive surveys of the literature as well as new empirical research, the book presents an explanatory framework of the processes through which organizations change to implement and accommodate workplace health and wellbeing practices. Three processes: Learning, adaptation and continuation explain successful implementation of workplace health and wellbeing practices. Three other processes: Gestalting, fracturing and grafting explain how organizations resolve or negotiate conflict between health and wellbeing practices and existing organizational procedures, systems and practices. The framework provides an explanation of how workplace health and wellbeing practices are implemented, organized and sustained. In a concluding chapter, the authors reflect on the implications for research of reframing the unit of analysis as the organization and how studies of organizing workplace wellbeing practices can provide a conceptual platform for thinking about how organizations can create social value in a broader sense.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	workplace wellbeing,worker health and wellbeing,occupational health practice,workplace health management,organizing wellbeing,organizational wellbeing interventions,corporate wellness programs,implementing workplace health and wellbeing practices,occupational health and safety systems,evaluation methods,health(social science),applied psychology,organizational behavior and human resource management,public health, environmental and occupational health,sdg 3 - good health and well-being,sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3306
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Employment Systems and Institutions
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	26 Jan 2022 11:30
Last Modified:	24 Sep 2024 08:45
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/83151
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-031-00665-4

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