Handbook on Management and Employment Practices

1. Beyond the Leadership/Followership Dichotomy

   • Vicki Webster

2. Burnout

   • Michael P. Leiter

3. Challenges and Opportunities for LGBTQI+ Inclusion at Work

   • Jordana Moser, Jonathan E. Booth, T. Alexandra Beauregard

4. Common Mental Health Problems

   • Abasiama Etuknwa, Mariya Mathai

5. Corporate Boards and Employee Well-Being

   • Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz, Caroline Lornudd

6. Developmental HR Practices as Tools to Support Employee Well-Being

   • Adelle J. Bish

7. Disruption in the Workplace

   • Elizabeth Kendall, Vanette McLennan

8. Employee Voice as a Route to Wellbeing

   • Sarah Brooks, Adrian Wilkinson

9. Ethical Culture and Management

   • Mari Huhtala

10. Extending Work-Life Balance Initiatives

    • Xi Wen Chan, Shirley Tay

11. Fairness at Work

    • Constanze Eib, Constanze Leineweber, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel

12. Flexible Work Initiatives, Employee Workplace Well-Being, and Organizational Performance

    • Melanie De Ruiter, Pascale Peters

13. HRM Practices, Employee Well-Being, and Organizational Performance

    • Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Samuel Aryee

14. Incremental and Disruptive Change and Wellbeing

    • Christine Ipsen, Kasper Edwards

15. Introduction

    • Paula Brough, Kevin Daniels, Elliroma Gardiner

16. Leadership and Safety

    • Lixin Jiang, Xiaohong Xu

17. Lean Management and Employee Well-Being

    • Steven Kilroy, Patrick C. Flood

18. Line Managers and Workplace Accommodations

    • Ellie Fossey, Justin Newton Scanlan

19. Management Competencies for Health and Wellbeing

    • Jo Yarker, Emma Donaldson-Feilder, Rachel Lewis

20. Management of Equity and Diversity

    • Katherine J. C. Sang, Jennifer Remnant, Olugbenga Abraham Babajide, James Richards

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. 

• aggression in the workplace
• democratizing the workplace
• aging workforces
• managing organisational sustainability
• work-life balance inititiatives
• flexible working hours
• substance and alcohol misuse at work
• work and mental health
• management of whistleblowing
• ethical culture at work

• School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, Australia

  Paula Brough, Elliroma Gardiner

• University of East Anglia, Norwich Business School, Norwich, United Kingdom

  Kevin Daniels

Paula Brough is a Professor of Organizational Psychology in the School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Australia. Paula conducts research in organisational psychology with a specific focus on occupational health psychology. Paula's primary research areas include: occupational stress, employee health and wellbeing, work-life balance, 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 is an Editorial Board member of Journal of Organisational Behavior, Work and Stress, and the International Journal of Stress Management, three of the leading journals in this field.

Elliroma Gardiner is a registered Organisational Psychologist and Lecturer at the School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Australia. Prior to joining Griffith Elli was part of the Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics, UK. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and was awarded her PhD in 2011 from the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research interests are broadly in the area of understanding the interplay between individual differences and contextual features in influencing employee and organisational outcomes, but her specific interest is in investigating how personality impacts performance, pay and risk-taking in the workplace. She has published in high impact and quality journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Personality, Human Resource Management Journal and the British Journal of Psychology.

Kevin Daniels is Professor of Organizational Behaviour in the Employment Systems Group of the University of East Anglia. He is currently the lead for the Work and Learning Evidence Programme (2015-present) of the UK What Works for Wellbeing Centre. His research has been funded by the UK Economic and Social and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Health and Safety Executive, Institution for Occupational Safety and Health and European Union amongst others. His research interests fall broadly in the area of workplace wellbeing, health and safety, which a particular current emphasis on multifocal and cost effective workplace health and wellbeing programmes. Kevin is currently series co-editor of Springer’s Handbook Series in Occupational Health Sciences, editor of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, associate editor of the British Journal of Management and has held associate editor positions at Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology and Human Relations.