Abstract
Many professional communities are committed to the issue of organizational health and corresponding intervention research. They are dealing with individuals, teams and organizations, management, leaders and politics, health, well-being and productivity, and change, promotion, and development – for all of which there are experts with focused knowledge and methods. Actors in this scientific field include stress researchers moving from individual to organizational stress management, organizational behavior researchers concerned with the positive perspective, public health researchers considering organizations as root cause of psychosocial determinants of health, health promotion researchers dealing with healthy settings, ergonomics researchers addressing the macro level through participatory approaches, organizational change researchers introducing health as one criterion of successful change, management researchers discovering happiness as an additional, legitimate outcome, and so on.
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Settings are defined as “The place or social context in which people engage in daily activities in which environmental, organizational, and personal factors interact to affect health and wellbeing” (World Health Organization 1998).
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We thank Annemarie Fridrich, Ph.D. student, Division of Public and Organizational Health, for her valuable support of the editing process.
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Bauer, G.F., Jenny, G.J. (2013). From Fidelity to Figuration: Current and Emerging Approaches to Organizational Health Intervention Research. In: Bauer, G., Jenny, G. (eds) Salutogenic organizations and change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6470-5_1
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