Handbook on Management and Employment Practices

Paula Brough is a Professor of Organizational Psychology in the School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Australia. Paula conducts research in organisational psychology with a specific focus on occupational health psychology. Paula's primary research areas include: occupational stress, employee health and wellbeing, work-life balance, and the psychosocial work environment. Paula assesses how work environments can be improved via job redesign, supportive leadership practices, and enhanced equity to improve employee health, work commitment, and productivity. Paula is an Editorial Board member of Journal of Organisational Behavior, Work and Stress, and the International Journal of Stress Management, three of the leading journals in this field. Elliroma Gardiner is a registered Organisational Psychologist and Lecturer at the School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Australia. Prior to joining Griffith Elli was part of the Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics, UK. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and was awarded her PhD in 2011 from the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research interests are broadly in the area of understanding the interplay between individual differences and contextual features in influencing employee and organisational outcomes, but her specific interest is in investigating how personality impacts performance, pay and risk-taking in the workplace. She has published in high impact and quality journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Personality, Human Resource Management Journal and the British Journal of Psychology.

Introduction.- Successful leadership.- Leadership and safety.- Management competencies for health and wellbeing.- Followership.- Incremental and disruptive change and wellbeing.- Restructuring, downsizing, and wellbeing.- Managing through a recession.- Lean transition and wellbeing.- Participative change and wellbeing.- Readiness for change and wellbeing.- Psychological contracts.- Fairness at work.- Work-based learning and wellbeing.- Management of equity and diversity.- Employment relations and employee voice.- High performance work systems.- Developmental HR practices as tools to support well-being.- Ethical culture & management.- Effective management of whistleblowing.- Psychosocial safety climate.- The aging workforce.- Muscular skeletal problems.- Common mental health problems.- Burnout.- Fatigue & sleep.- Chronic conditions.- Return to work following major illness.- Emotional crossover.- Flexible working hours.- Extending work-life balance initiatives.- The growing 'gig' economy.- Aggression in the workplace.- Managing within changing legal frameworks.- Managing Organisational Sustainability.