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Managing Healthy Organizations: Worksite Health Promotion and the New Self-Management Paradigm book cover

1st Edition

Managing Healthy Organizations Worksite Health Promotion and the New Self-Management Paradigm

By Mikael Holmqvist, Christian Maravelias Copyright 2011
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge
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During the past two decades, corporate management has come to take an active role in health promotion programming for employees, offering health education, screenings, therapy, and even leisure initiatives. However, little attention has been given to how contemporary worksite health programs in fact blur the traditional distinction between work and private life. This has resulted in that little... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Management and Health  3. Health Promotion as Management  4. Scania - SPS and the ‘New Employee’  5. Policies and Ambitions in Managing Health  6. Spreading the Ideas and Ideals of Health Promotion  7. Practices and Procedures in Managing Health  8. Conclusions  9. Social and Political Implications

Biography

Mikael Holmqvist is a Professor at the School of Business, Stockholm University, Sweden. His latest books are The Instiutionalization of Social Welfare (Routledge, 2008) and The Disabling State of an Active Society (Ashgate, 2009).

Christian Maravelias is an Associate Professor at the School of Business, Stockholm University, Sweden. His latest publications are ‘Health Promotion and Flexibility, Extending and Obscuring Power in Organizations’, British Journal of Management, Vol. 20, 1, 194-203, ’Make your presence known! - Post-bureaucracy, HRM and the fear of being unseen’, Personnel Review, vol 38 (4), 349-265.

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