This handbook focuses on the contribution of management and employment practices to the health and wellbeing of workers. It provides readers with a comprehensive oversight of the latest research and thinking on these issues, with content provided by leading researchers in each of the fields covered. This reference work is divided into six sections that cover leadership, change management, human resource management practices, managing disabilities, work-life interfaces, and emerging challenges. The topics covered represent an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating psychology, social sciences, biomedical sciences, economics, employment relations and management. Through a spectrum of chapters this volume provides the best available scientific evidence to professionals and stakeholders on the interplay between management practices, health and wellbeing.
Paula Brough is a Professor of Organisational Psychology and Director of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Paula’s primary research and teaching areas are occupational stress and coping, employee mental health and wellbeing, work engagement, work-life balance, workplace conflict (bullying, harassment, toxic leadership), 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 has authored over 60 industry reports, over 150 journal articles and book chapters, and has produced 9 scholarly books based on her research. Paula is an Associate Editor of Work & Stress, and is Board member of Journal of Organizational Behaviour, International Journal of Stress Management, and the BPS Work-Life Balance Bulletin. Paula is a Fellowof the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology and a Fellow of the Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work.
Dr Elliroma Gardiner is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Management, QUT, Australia and an Affiliated Professor with IÉSEG School of Management, France. Prior to joining QUT, Elli was a Fellow at the Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science and a Lecturer at the School of Psychology, Griffith University. She is an endorsed Organisational Psychologist, with 15 years of industry experience working with public and private organisations to enhance employee engagement and productivity. She has experience providing advice to firms on key strategic HR functions such as recruitment and selection (including the use of psychometric assessments), learning and development and performance management. Her broad research interests are in investigating the interplay between individual differences and contextual features in influencing employee, team and organisational outcomes. She has published her research findings in high quality academic journals such as
Psychological Bulletin,
Human Resource Management Journal and
the Journal of Personality.
Kevin Daniels is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. He has a PhD in Applied Psychology (1992), is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His research covers approaches to health, safety and wellbeing, originally with particular focus on the psychology of job design and more latterly an interest multidisciplinary approaches to wellbeing. He has authored or co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles, 30 book chapters and 20 books or major reports. From 2015-2021, he was lead investigator for an evidence programme on work and wellbeing, one ofthe foundational research programmes of the UK’s What Works Centre for Wellbeing. From 2015-2019, he served as editor of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, and also in associate editor positions at the British Journal of Management, Human Relations and Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
