Healthy at Work Interdisciplinary Perspectives
This book aims at exploring the link between corporate and organizational culture, public and private policies, leadership and managerial skills or attitudes, and the successful implementation of work-related healthcare in Europe. Therefore it brings toge
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Markus Wiencke • Mirella Cacace • Sebastian Fischer Editors
Healthy at Work Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Editors Markus Wiencke Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) Berlin, Germany
Mirella Cacace SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality & Social Policy University of Bremen Bremen, Germany
Sebastian Fischer Leuphana University L€ uneburg, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-32329-9 ISBN 978-3-319-32331-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32331-2
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Foreword
In a changing working world with its demands for increased flexibility and blurred boundaries, occupational health management needs are becoming increasingly heterogeneous. Urgent questions concerning the sustainability of health and safety measures in the everyday work environment, how to deal with increased stress, and how to negotiate the gap between health and safety requirements and the autonomy of individuals can only be answered on the basis of an interdisciplinary approach. Our knowledge about the factors that influence the effectiveness of occupational health and safety measures has grown steadily in recent years. However, how and under what organizational conditions these factors come together remains relatively unclear. Occupational health and safety appears to be inextricably linked to aspects of culture, organizational processes, and leadership and thus stands in a context of change management and private and public policies. With this in mind, a group of scholars from disciplines as disparate as psychology, economics, management, medicine, and sociology present here a framework for the design of occupational heal
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