Health at Work, Ageing and Environmental Effects on Future Social Security and Labour Law Systems

Health at Work, Ageing and Environmental Effects on Future Social Security and Labour Law Systems
Author: Lourdes Mella Méndez
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1527525708

This volume analyses the most important problems and challenges that health, age and the environment introduce in the labour market, and how these factors affect both the way people work and their rights. The contributions here focus on the main challenges for social security systems, lawmakers and trade unions, and provide important solutions to improve workers’ rights and guarantee the viability of public social security systems. Other topics analysed here include dress-codes and whistleblowing in companies. From the labour point of view, workers’ representatives and trade unions must take action in collective bargaining to deal with these topics and adequately protect the workforce. The authors here are drawn from countries such as Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland, Brazil and Colombia, providing a global perspective. The book will appeal to lawyers, legal and human resources experts, economists, judges, academics and staff from trade unions and employers’ representation. The volume features insights and contributions in different languages, with chapters in Spanish (13), English (7) and Portuguese (2).

Intervención y control de los factores psicosociales del estrés laboral : experiencias latinoamericanas

Intervención y control de los factores psicosociales del estrés laboral : experiencias latinoamericanas
Author: Arturo Juárez García
Publisher: Bonilla Artigas Editores
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2024-02-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 6078918842

En las últimas décadas, el tema de los factores psicosociales del trabajo ha cobrado gran relevancia por su importancia en la salud, el bienestar y el desarrollo de trabajadores, organizaciones y países en general. Organismos internacionales como la Organización Mundial de Salud (OMS) y la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) han declarado el tema como altamente prioritario. En Latinoamérica existe un despliegue de normas y leyes alrededor de temas como el acoso laboral y los factores de riesgo psicosocial; sin embargo, la aplicación de esta normativa sigue siendo incipiente y se ha centrado principalmente en la evaluación de estos factores, pero poco o nada en medidas específicas de mitigación y seguimiento para una eficaz prevención e intervención. Asimismo, los programas de intervención que se realizan en grandes empresas son guardados como secretos industriales de los que se desconoce su verdadera eficacia y validez científica, sin mencionar la charlatanería que lamentablemente ocurre en el mundo de la consultoría. En este contexto surge la iniciativa de esta obra cuyo propósito es dar a conocer el estado del arte en temas selectos de intervención psicosocial en el trabajo y, sobre todo, compartir experiencias de intervención aplicadas en distintas organizaciones latinoamericanas que incluyen: sector público, centros de salud, centros educativos, centros de asistencia, empresas privadas de la industria farmacéutica y del sector minero, supermercados, museos y organizaciones de economía solidaria, entre otros. Las reflexiones y pesquisas mostradas en el texto combinan la experiencia aplicada y el enfoque científico de sus coautores, desde ocho naciones latinoamericanas: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México, Perú, Puerto Rico y Venezuela.

Theories of Organizational Stress

Theories of Organizational Stress
Author: Cary L. Cooper
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1998-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0191584703

During the past two decades, the nature of work has changed dramatically, as more and more organizations downsize, outsource and move toward short-term contracts, part-time working and teleworking. The costs of stress in the workplace in most of the developed and developing world have risen accordingly in terms of increased sickness absence, labour turnover, burnout, premature death and decreased productivity. This book, in one volume, provides all the major theories of organizational stress from the leading researchers and writers in the field. It is a guide to identifying the sources of pressures in jobs and the workplace so that we may be able to intervene to change and manage the growing problem of organizational stress.

The Oxford Handbook of Talent Management

The Oxford Handbook of Talent Management
Author: David G. Collings
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198758278

The Oxford Handbook of Talent Management offers academic researchers, advanced postgraduate students, and reflective practitioners a state-of-the-art overview of the key themes, topics, and debates in talent management. The Handbook is designed with a multi-disciplinary perspective in mind and draws upon perspectives from, inter alia, human resource management, psychology, and strategy to chart the topography of the area of talent management and to establish the base of knowledge in the field. Furthermore, each chapter concludes by identifying key gaps in our understanding of the area of focus. The Handbook is ambitious in its scope, with 28 chapters structured around five sections. These include the context of talent management, talent and performance, talent teams and networks, managing talent flows, and contemporary issues in talent management. Each chapter is written by a leading international scholar in the area and thus the volume represents the authoritative reference for anyone working in the area of talent management.

The Science of Occupational Health

The Science of Occupational Health
Author: Ulf Lundberg
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2010-12-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781405199148

The Science of Occupational Health is an evidence-based resource for all members of the health care team working with those affected by work-based stress - whether individuals suffering physical or psychological symptoms, or organizations trying to provide optimum conditions for healthy and productive employees. The authors offer a unique psychobiological perspective, discussing the modern workplace as a cause of stimulation and well-being, as well as of distress and illness. They provide a rigorous but highly accessible scientific account of the effects that stress has on mind and body, with key chapters on 'Responses to Stress', 'Stress-Related Health Problems', and 'Stress Hormones at Work'. This book offers the reader practical guidance on health promotion and preventive strategies at both individual and organizational levels. It concludes with a discussion of present occupational conditions around the world, and predictions of likely trends in the future.

The Pocket Guide to Health Promotion

The Pocket Guide to Health Promotion
Author: Glenn Laverack
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2014-07-16
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0335264735

The 'Pocket Guide to Health Promotion' is a short, punchy and practical guide aimed at students and practitioners. The book includes precise definitions and examples of key concepts and methods in health promotion practice and a chapter by chapter description of the management planning, strategy selection, implementation and evaluation of health promotion programmes. Written in an accessible and concise style, the book offers the reader a practical and flexible resource that is ideal for students and practitioners looking to plan and implement health promotion activities. A must buy for those new to health promotion or who want a pocket guide to this core health activity. "Clearly written and practical, this excellent guide will prove indispensible to practitioners of health promotion globally, and a very useful starting point for students. It will be worth buying a pocket to put it in!" David Ross, Professor of Epidemiology and International Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK "The Pocket Guide to Health Promotion is easy to navigate with complex concepts in health promotion explained in a user-friendly way. Whether you are practicing health promotion or studying the discipline, this will be a welcome addition to any book shelf." Dr James Woodall, Co-Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research & Course Leader MSc Public Health, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

The Truth About Burnout

The Truth About Burnout
Author: Christina Maslach
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2008-07-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0470423560

Today's workforce is experiencing job burnout in epidemic proportions. Workers at all levels, both white- and blue-collar, feel stressed out, insecure, misunderstood, undervalued, and alienated at their workplace. This original and important book debunks the common myth that when workers suffer job burnout they are solely responsible for their fatigue, anger, and don't give a damn attitude. The book clearly shows where the accountability often belongs. . . .squarely on the shoulders of the organization.