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Managing Healthy Organizations Mikael Holmqvist (Stockholm Business School, Sweden)

Managing Healthy Organizations By Mikael Holmqvist (Stockholm Business School, Sweden)

Managing Healthy Organizations by Mikael Holmqvist (Stockholm Business School, Sweden)


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This book studies worksite health promotion as a way of managing organizations. It examines the character of corporate health experts' work, the social contexts of their profession, their striving for influence, the way they try to affect people's thinking and behaviour, and the organizational ethic and culture that they contribute to construct.

Managing Healthy Organizations Summary

Managing Healthy Organizations: Worksite Health Promotion and the New Self-Management Paradigm by Mikael Holmqvist (Stockholm Business School, Sweden)

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 research on the other side of the work-health nexus: how employers factor health considerations into workforce management and productivity control.

With the advancement of work-site health promotion in contemporary organizations, Holmqvist and Maravelias argue that this narrow focus, and the typical uncritical standpoint towards initiatives which are taken in the name of employees' health, is inadequate. At a more fundamental level, the advancement of work-site health promotion may be a sign of a new or altered corporate health ethic: in contrast to the old corporate health ethic that was narrow and specific to the workplace, the new corporate health ethic appears to judge the 'whole employee' and especially what the whole employee may become; the risks one faces and the abilities one has to shoulder the responsibility for developing into a real corporate value. The authors suggest that health experts' work is closely aligned with problems relating to the general management of organizations. Through a focused appraisal of this central albeit neglected occupational group in management studies, this book tries to explore and understand in some depth situations and experiences that are of general interest and concern in our society.

About Mikael Holmqvist (Stockholm Business School, Sweden)

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.

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

NPB9780415873895
9780415873895
0415873894
Managing Healthy Organizations: Worksite Health Promotion and the New Self-Management Paradigm by Mikael Holmqvist (Stockholm Business School, Sweden)
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2010-08-25
182
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