WELL-BEING (eBook)

This book is the second edition of Well-being: Productivity and Happiness at Work that shows how to improve well-being in organizations. As with its predecessor, this new edition is remarkably timely. It explores the latest findings in the research on wellbeing and offers practical guidelines to the reader on how to promote well-being, productivity and happiness at work

High levels of well-being at work are good for the employee and the organization. It means lower sickness-absence levels, better retention and more satisfied customers. People with higher levels of well-being live longer, pursue happier lives and are easier to work with.

This updated edition provides an extensive overview of resilience at work and how this affects wellbeing. It introduces new topics such as what organizations need to consider about wellbeing in the context of an ageing workforce. It provides new case studies that have been conducted in the last few years including a case study on health and wellbeing in the Civil Service.

Sheena J. Johnson, PhD, is an occupational and chartered psychologist and is head of the organisational psychology group at the University of Manchester, UK. She lectures in the Alliance Manchester Business School, where she teaches work psychology and organizational behaviour topics to undergraduate, postgraduate, professional and international students. She is an active researcher into the topics of health and wellbeing, and the ageing workforce and has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters on organizational behaviour topics.

Sir Cary Cooper, CBE, is an American-born British psychologist and 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the ALLIANCE Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He is President of the CIPD, President of RELATE and President of the British Academy of Management.

Ivan Robertson is co-founder of Robertson Cooper, having set up the business with Cary Cooper in 1999. He was Managing Director for eight years, from 2002, until handing over to Ben Moss in 2010. Ivan also holds the position of Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester.