Occupational Health and Wellbeing Challenges and Opportunities in Theory and Practice

Part One: The Challenges of Occupational Health

1. Defining the Landscape, What is Occupational Health and What are the Key Challenges in Modern Workplaces related to Wellbeing?

2. Managing Wellbeing: New, and Old, Challenges for Organisations

3. Are Organisations inherently Toxic? An Exploration of Executive Toxicity, Workplace Bullying and Destructive Workplace Cultures

4. Triggering Toxic Leadership: Risks to Employee Wellbeing when the Leader’s Intentions are Blocked, Denied or Thwarted

5. Miscarriage: The Next Challenge for Contemporary Workplaces

6. The Machine Can See You Now: Considering the use of Technology and Innovation to Extend Capacity and Capability to Deliver Health and Wellbeing Support

7. The Business Case for Managing Wellbeing Effectively within the Healthcare Sector within the UK: A Review of What Works

8. Mental Health: A Twenty-First Century Imperative for Workplace Wellbeing

9. Difference, Dissent, Discussion and Disagreement: Diversity Means Nothing unless we Create Cultures that are Safe for All of These, Not from Them

10. Employee Assistance Programs in a Changing World: The Australasian Experience

11. The New Kid on The Block: A Review of Mental Health First Aid as a Workplace Mental Health Intervention

12. Positive Psychology Interventions and Employee Wellbeing: When and for Whom are they Effective?

Part Four: New Opportunities in Employee Wellbeing Support - Organisational Responses

13. Coping in The New World: The Challenges of The ‘New Normal’ of Work and Life

14. Workplace Mediation and the Links to Occupational Health and Wellbeing

15. Engagement Through Disruption: Rhetoric, Reality and ‘Reimagining’ Wellbeing at Work

Biography

Andrew Kinder is a Chartered Counselling and Chartered Occupational Psychologist and is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS). He is currently Professional Head of Mental Health Services at Optima Health (part of the Marlowe Group).

Rick Hughes is a Wellbeing Consultant, Aberdeen, Scotland, having been Head of Service of the University of Aberdeen Counselling Service and a Lead Advisor for the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP).

Cary L. Cooper is 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the ALLIANCE Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

"This excellent book provides the reader with insights into the very latest thinking and practice with regards to Occupational Health and Wellbeing. Written by experts in the field, it provides an international perspective and bridges the gap between theory and practice, bringing real-world case studies to illustrate what works. Anyone wishing to advance the workplace wellbeing within their organisation, will find this book and its actionable insights, invaluable."

Dr David Roomes, Chief Medical Officer, Rolls-Royce

"Wellbeing is now firmly established as a critical business and societal agenda, but we need good evidence and proven practice to provide the foundation of what we do to improve wellbeing outcomes. The authors have brought together a very wide range of insights and research from the fields of occupational health and wellbeing to provide practice guidance to us all. This should be a major contribution to wellbeing strategies in every organisation."

Peter Cheese, Chief Executive, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)

"This compilation is an essential resource for anyone concerned with people, safety, and psychological security in the workplace. The editors have assembled a world class team of global scholars and practitioners who are knowledgeable authorities in their respective domains and locations."

James Campbell Quick, Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Colonel (Ret.), United States Air Force

"This is a most refreshing and at times challenging book. It sees Occupational Health as linked to the well-being of the worker. This linkage is a relatively new and welcome proposition. It has been accelerated by the pandemic. Occupational Health is now more visible and seen to be of critical importance to many more employers. Occupational Health practices connected to well-being can be seen to encompass a broader conceptualisation of prevention health promotion and management of workplace hazards."

Professor Dame Carol Black, Expert Adviser on Health & Work, National Health Service England & Public Health England