Measures of Job Satisfaction, Organisational Commitment, Mental Health and Job related Well-being
Measures of Job Satisfaction, Organisational Commitment, Mental Health and Job related Well-being

Author: Chris Stride

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-02-28

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 0470723912

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Promoting the satisfaction, commitment, mental health and well-being of employees is important not only in itself, but also because evidence shows that those who are positive in these respects respond better to change and are more productive. Measures of Job Satisfaction, Organisational Commitment, Mental Health and Job-related Well-being is a unique source of benchmarking data across four widely used questionnaire methods, that provides up-to-date data drawn from 60,000 respondents in 170 organisations across a wide range of industries and occupations. The data is split by sector and occupational group, with the latter broken down further by age and gender, creating a must-have for those using these scales and seeking to benchmark their progress.

Psychosocial Safety Climate
Psychosocial Safety Climate

Author: Maureen F. Dollard

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-08-24

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 3030203190

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This book is a valuable, comprehensive and unique reference text on Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), a new work stress theory. It proposes a new PSC theory concerning the corporate climate for workers’ psychological health, its origins and implications for work stress, and provides a critique of current research and theories. It provides a comprehensive review of all PSC studies to date. The chapters discuss state-of-the-art empirical evidence testing PSC theory in relation to management roles, organisational resilience, corruption, organisational status, cultural perspectives, illegitimate tasks, high PSC work groups, PSC variability in work groups, etc. They investigate outcomes such as psychological distress, emotional exhaustion, depression, worry, engagement, health, cognitive decline, personal initiative, boredom, cynicism, sickness absence, and productivity loss, in various workplace settings across many countries. This unique book allows practitioners to rapidly update practical measures, benchmarks and processes, and provides students and trainees with an introduction to PSC and important concepts and methods, quantitative and qualitative, in occupational health with leads to further sources. Students as well as experts on occupational health and safety, human resource management, occupational health psychology, organisational psychology and practitioners, unions and policy makers will find this book highly informative. It covers relevant materials for undergraduate and postgraduate education, drawing upon the concepts, topics and methods (diary, multilevel, longitudinal, qualitative, data linkage) within the multidisciplinary occupational health area.

Commitment in Organizations
Commitment in Organizations

Author: Howard J. Klein

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 1135389845

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Commitment is one of the most researched concepts in organizational behavior. This edited book in the SIOP Organizational Frontiers series, with contributions from many scholars, attempts to summarize current research and suggests new directions for studies on commitment in organizations. Commitment is linked to other concepts ie. satisfaction, involvement, motivation, and identification and is studied across cultural lines. Both the individual and group levels of building and maintaining commitment are discussed.

Employee—Organization Linkages
Employee—Organization Linkages

Author: Richard T. Mowday

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2013-09-17

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1483267393

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Employee-Organization Linkages: The Psychology of Commitment, Absenteeism, and Turnover summarizes the theory and research on employee-organization linkages, including the processes through which employees become linked to work organizations, the quality of such linkages, and how linkages are weakened or severed. The text identifies the determinants of employee commitment, absenteeism, and turnover, as well as their consequences for the individual, work groups, and the larger organization. The book also presents conceptual models on how employees become committed to, decide to be absent from, and decide to leave their organizations. Human resource practitioners, managers, employers, and industrial psychologists will find the book very informative and insightful.

Work Engagement
Work Engagement

Author: Arnold B. Bakker

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2010-04-05

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1136980881

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This book provides the most thorough view available on this new and intriguing dimension of workplace psychology, which is the basis of fulfilling, productive work. The book begins by defining work engagement, which has been described as ‘an opposite to burnout,’ following its development into a more complex concept with far reaching implications for work-life. The chapters discuss the sources of work engagement, emphasizing the importance of leadership, organizational structures, and human resource management as factors that may operate to either enhance or inhibit employee’s experience of work. The book considers the implications of work engagement for both the individual employee and the organization as a whole. To address readers’ practical questions, the book provides in-depth coverage of interventions that can enhance employees’ work engagement and improve management techniques. Based upon the most up-to-date research by the foremost experts in the world, this volume brings together the best knowledge available on work engagement, and will be of great use to academic researchers, upper level students of work and organizational psychology as well as management consultants.

The Mindful and Effective Employee
The Mindful and Effective Employee

Author: Paul E. Flaxman

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1608826325

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The importance of improving and maintaining employees’ psychological health is now widely recognized by occupational health researchers and practitioners, business leaders, human resource professionals, and policy makers alike. Indeed, a growing body of research has established that psychological well-being is one of the most important factors in job performance. The Mindful and Effective Employee offers an evidence-based workplace training program based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). The program is specifically designed to improve employees’ psychological health—as well as their effectiveness at work and in their personal lives—through a combination of mindfulness and values-guided behavioral skills. This book is designed for use by psychologists, coaches, occupational health practitioners, and human resource professionals who are interested in improving employee well-being, performance, and quality of life. The training program described in this book is designed to: • Promote employee self-awareness • Help employees find purpose, direction, and meaning • Offer new ways to improve work and life effectiveness • Help employees identify and pursue valued goals and actions

A Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology
A Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology

Author: Charles J. De Wolff

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1134837623

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Work Psychology, the second volume of the Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology, concentrates on issues related to the direct relationship between the worker and the organization and on his or her task or function. This could be termed the classical tradition of work psychology, including human factors, psychology and ergonomics. This volume provides a comprehensive update on new issues and studies in this core area. Subjects like safety, occupational stress, workload and absenteeism due to sickness are tackled. Chapters discuss particular types of workers on whom psychologists have focused attention more recently: the older worker, the unemployed, and the foreign worker. Moving away somewhat from the 'micro-world' of the individual worker, models of human economic behaviour and the development of social indicator systems are also explored.

Workplace Happiness
Workplace Happiness

Author: Dr Ajay Bhatia

Publisher: Exceller Books

Published:

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13:

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‘Workplace Happiness: Relevance to Employee Outcomes in Knowledge-Intensive Industries’ is based on an empirical study that brings into focus the centrality of workplace happiness and the influence that organizational HR practices play in promoting employee happiness, that in turn facilitates their outcomes at work, critical for individual development and organization success. It attempts to break popular myths on happiness, clarify why happiness at work should be prioritized over employee engagement or satisfaction, establish empirical evidence of its influence on employee outcomes, identify HR practices that play a key role in creating happy and productive workplaces, and recommend a robust workplace happiness model that can be leveraged by companies to increase the happiness quotient in their companies.

Handbook of Research on Human Resources Strategies for the New Millennial Workforce
Handbook of Research on Human Resources Strategies for the New Millennial Workforce

Author: Ordoñez de Pablos, Patricia

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2016-11-17

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 1522509496

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Each new generation of upcoming professionals requires different strategies for effective management within the workforce. In order to promote a cohesive and productive environment, managers must take steps to better understand their employees. The Handbook of Research on Human Resources Strategies for the New Millennial Workforce is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on theoretical frameworks and applications for the management of millennials entering the professional realm. Focusing on methods and practices to enhance organizational performance and culture, this book is ideally designed for managers, professionals, upper-level students, and researchers in the fields of human resource and strategic management.