Employee Meaning and Wellbeing The Responsible Organisation

Chapter 1: The importance of employee psyche in providing meaning for employees and organisations

1. When Give and Give-back Coupled with Job Ownership Produce Beneficial Outcomes for Firms and Employees

He Peng

2. How Measuring Performance Can Impact Meaning and Purpose at Work

Haley Beer, Pietro Micheli, and Marya Besharov

3. From Childhood to Career: Tracing the influence of habitus within work-family decisions

Ioana Lupu

4. When Culture Plays a Part in Shaping Employee Proactivity

Karoline Strauss

5. Microcase 1: When change brings resistance and a decrease in moral and performance

Chapter 2: How others shape employee attitudes and commitment

1. The Effects of Knowledge Hiding at Work on Employees and Performance: How to manage it

He Peng

2. Keep Calm and Carry On: How effective HR management and leadership reduce the emotional exhaustion of employees

Na Fu, Steven Kilroy, and Janine Bosak

3. Seniors at Work: Ageism and a focus on Brazil

Maria José Tonelli, Jussara Jessica Pereira, Vanessa Martinez Cepellos, and João Lins

4. Intergenerational Collaboration: Passing the torch

Concépcion Galdón and Celia de Anca

5. Microcase 2: “Grey hair matters”

Chapter 3: Work as struggle – and solutions to counter it

1. Presenteeism: Examining the hidden costs of working while unwell

Wladislaw Rivkin

2. Tempus fugit: Optimal busyness and how employees can cope with excessive workloads, performance evaluations and deadlines

Ioana Lupu

3. Bullying at Work and its Effect on Unethical Behaviour

Na Fu and Zhu Yao

4. Physical Constitution and Type of Job: What impact does it have on salary?

David Santos

5. The Dual Nature of HR Practices: Resources, challenges, and employee wellbeing

Na Fu, Mengwei Li, Brian Harney, and Clint Chadwick

6. One for All, All for One: Including people with disabilities in the workplace in South Africa

Armand Bam

7. Microcase 3: Modern Times

Chapter 4: Work as fun and fulfilling

1. Beyond Job Satisfaction: Unravelling the Impact of Internal Climate and Entrepreneurial Orientation

Tales Andreassi

2. The New Retention Strategy: How thriving cultures drive success

Zen Goh

3. Play Hard, Work Smart: How leisure can help your job performance and career success

Karoline Strauss

4. Revitalizing Team Communication, Wellbeing and Performance: The Role of Laughter in the Workplace

Lorna Doucet

5. Work Hard, Play Hard: Navigating the fine line of fun in the workplace

David Allen

6. Microcase 4: A Recipe for Team Success and Fulfilment

You, this book, and your knowledge: A self-assessment tool

Biography

Adrián Zicari is Associate Professor in the Accounting and Management Control Department at ESSEC Business School, Director of the Management & Society track, and Academic Director of the Council on Business & Society. He is also the Honorary representative for Buenos Aires in Paris. He holds a PhD in Management Administration from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, an MBA (University Adolfo Ibáñez) and a BSc in Accounting. Adrián’s career has spanned the corporate sector as Financial Manager and Controller and his academic research has been widely published in leading journals, among others, Journal of Business Ethics, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Social and Environmental Accountability Journal.

Tom Gamble is Executive Director of the Council on Business & Society. He holds an MA in Human Resource Management & Industrial Relations from Keele University as well as several coaching certifications. Tom’s career has spanned secondary and higher education teaching and lecturing, thought leadership, consulting, and instructional design, working with over 200 companies and educational institutions worldwide. He is Scientific Manager for paleolithic and neolithic prospections at the Archeological Research Centre of the French Vexin. He is a published author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.