HRM and the Workforce: Wellbeing & Resilience
Author
Cotton, Elizabeth
Date
2019Acceptance date
2019
Type
Book chapter
Publisher
Red Globe Press
Embargoed until
2100-01-01
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The aim of this chapter is to introduce the current debates surrounding mental health
at work and look critically at workplace models of wellbeing and resilience. This
chapter offers a critique of positive psychology used in wellbeing programmes that
focus on promoting optimism through positive thinking and techniques that promote
positive behaviours. The chapter gives a summary of the management issues
around wellbeing at work programmes and analyses how to make them effective in
the context of contemporary workplace settings, such as healthcare, where external
factors are likely to have a downward pressure on mental health. The proposal of
this chapter is that in addition to specific workplace programmes, wellbeing can be
built by using management practices that build relationships and team working.The
references and case studies used throughout this chapter aim to give practical guidance
on how to manage wellbeing at work.
Citation
Cotton E (2019) HRM and the Workforce: Wellbeing & Resilience. In Roper I, Prouska, R. and
Chatrakul Na Auydha, U. Critical Human Resource Management. Macmillan
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