1st Edition

Managing Health and Wellbeing in the Public Sector A Guide to Best Practice

By Cary L. Cooper, Ian Hesketh Copyright 2018
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

As governments throughout the world experience increasing fiscal challenges, the pressures on public sectors to streamline services and harness technological advances is unprecedented. Many have undergone huge budgetary cuts as a result, but what are the effects of this intense organisational change on such a large and varied workforce? And how can managers within the public sector meet the... Read more

The authors Foreword  Introduction  Chapter 1. Context  Chapter 2. Why welllbeing, why now?  Chapter 3. Wellbeing: the fundamentals  Chapter 4. What research tells us  Chapter 5. Applying the research in your workplace: best praxis  Chapter 6. Case studies

Biography

Dr Ian Hesketh is a serving police officer, currently working at the College of Policing in the UK. Ian has a PhD and an MBA from Lancaster University Management School, and he is a Chartered Manager, Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and and a Member of the Society for Education and Training.

 Professor Sir Cary Cooper, CBE is the 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the ALLIANCE Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, President of the CIPD, President of the British Academy of Management, President of RELATE, and President of the Institute of Welfare. He is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and one of only a few UK Fellows of the (American) Academy of Management.