The Healthy Organization: Fairness, Ethics, and Effective ManagementIntroduces some of the most important theories, concepts and methodologies when considering "what is a health organization". Instructive and introductory, this book should help managers implement a policy of good human relations. Organizations in the 1990s can no longer afford to waste people talent if they are to remain competitive into the next century. This is the message Susan Newell aims to instill in the reader of "The Healthy Organization", which explores the issues relating to quality, flexibility and responsibility in organizations. To be successful, businesses need to promote the positive well-being of individuals, groups and societies. This book introduces some of the most important psychological theories, concepts, and methodologies when considering what is meant by a "healthy" organization. Divided into three parts - the impact of organizations on individual employees, the negative impact on groups which suffer from unfair discrimination within organizations and the impact offers solutions to the dilemmas managers face when they attempt to improve their organization's "health". This includes advice on how to promote equal opportunities, how to cope with and remove sources of stress, how to improve an organization's ecological image and how to make the workforce feel more valued. Instuctive and introductory, this book should help managers implement a policy of good human relations. |
From inside the book
12 pages matching corporate fitness programmes in this book
Where's the rest of this book?
Results 1-3 of 12
Contents
The organization and the individual employee | 11 |
the intolerance of diversity | 119 |
the impact of the organization | 165 |
Copyright | |
3 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
The Healthy Organization: Fairness, Ethics, and Effective Management Susan Newell No preview available - 1995 |
Common terms and phrases
ability achieve action activity actually argued attitudes Attribution theory Authoritarian Personality believe benefits Boots the Chemist career development cent Chapter cognitive commitment competitive consider contribute cope corporate fitness programmes costs counselling culture decisions deontological discrimination effects employment encourage ensure environment environmental features Equal Opportunities ethical example exercise expectations experience F.W. Taylor factors feel flexibility Ford Pinto goals groupthink Hawthorne studies human identify important improve increase individual employee initiatives introduced involved issues Journal male ment mental health moral responsibility Morton Thiokol motivation Nestlé Opportunity 2000 organization output person perspective physical positive potential prejudice problem psychological psychometric racial rational-emotive therapy recruitment reduce relaxation role Rover Scientific Management seen self-efficacy situation skills social responsibility society stereotypes stress management studies success suggests theory tion vitamins well-being wider community women workers workforce
References to this book
Excellence in Health Care Management Alison Morton Cooper,Margaret Bamford No preview available - 1997 |
Information Technology, Organisations, and People: Transformations in the UK ... Jeff Watkins No preview available - 1998 |