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The Value of Wellness in the Workplace: A Perspective of the Employee-Organisation Relationship in the South African Labour Market de Bennie Linde

The Value of Wellness in the Workplace: A Perspective of the Employee-Organisation Relationship in the South African Labour Market: SpringerBriefs in Economics

Autor Bennie Linde
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 feb 2015
This book examines the links between employee-organisation relationships, work wellness and the impact thereof on the labour market from a South African perspective. By employing this focus, the book explains the role of the employment relationship and the psychological contract in improving work wellness. To do so, it reviews the establishment and management of contracts in the context of labour relations at South African organisations. The studies presented focus on a range of topics, from individual wellness, the employment relationship and psychological contract, to relational wellness, the broader labour approach, and industrial action. The book presents a structural framework from an individual and labour relational perspective that links the employee-organisation relationship with wellness and its economic value, making it of interest to general and financial managers seeking to better grasp the link between work wellness and its financial implications.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789812874016
ISBN-10: 9812874011
Pagini: 55
Ilustrații: VI, 65 p. 6 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Ediția:2015
Editura: Springer Nature Singapore
Colecția Springer
Seria SpringerBriefs in Economics

Locul publicării:Singapore, Singapore

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Cuprins

Chapter 1: Work Wellness in South Africa - A History of Change.- 1.1: Introduction.- 1.2: South Africa’s changing labour relations system.- 1.3: The employee-organisation relationship and wellness.- Chapter 2: The Psychological Contract.- 2.1: The psychological contract as part of the employee-organisation relationship (EOR).- 2.2: Breach and violation of the psychological contract.- 2.3: Employee and employer obligations.- 2.4: Influence of the social context on the psychological contract.- Chapter 3: The Employment Relationship.- 3.1: The employment relationship as part of the labour relations system.- 3.2: Employment Regulations.- 3.3: The South African approach to labour relations.- 3.4: Experience of employment regulations.- 3.4.1: Availability.- 3.4.2: Ascertainment.- 3.4.3: Understanding.- 3.4.4: Acceptance.- 3.4.5: Trust in application and consistency.- Chapter 4: The Economic Impact of Wellness.- 4.1: The cost of wellness.- 4.2: Individual work wellness and its cost.- 4.2.1: The psychological contract and wellness.- 4.2.2: Job satisfaction.- 4.2.3: Job insecurity.- 4.3: Relational work wellness and its cost.- 4.4: Link between industrial actions with wellness.- 4.4.1: Marikana massacre.- 4.4.2: Western Cape farmworkers’ strike.- 4.4.3: Platinum mine strikes 2014.- 4.4.4: Proposed link between industrial action and wellness.- 5: Conclusion.- 5.1: Conclusions.- 5.2: Implications of the research.- 5.3: Proposed integrated work wellness model.- 5.4: Practical implications.- 5.5: Theoretical implications.

Notă biografică

Bennie Linde is an associate professor at the North-West University in South Africa. He teaches labour relations management at the School of Human Resource Sciences at this university – third and fourth year – and is also a member of the WorkWell Research Unit for Economic and Management Sciences where he supervise master and PhD students. Bennie started his career as a labour relations practitioner in 1994 when he was a labour inspector for the Department of Labour in Potchefstroom. In this position he acquired structured skills and development training, with practitioner exposure in labour relations. Bennie practiced labour relations privately from 1996 in the Gauteng province, where he focused on the development of labour relations policies and practices for employers. In 2001 he entered the academic world as a lecturer in labour relations at the, then, Potchefstroom University (now the North-West University). After the successful completion of his BComm Honours and MComm in Labour Relations, he defended his PhD (Organisation Behaviour) at the Tilburg University (the Netherlands) on 29 June 2007, under the academic supervision of René Schalk. Bennie’s research focuses on relational wellbeing in the working environment and publishes mainly about psychological contracts and the link of unbalanced contracts on worker wellbeing and organisational success. Bennie also acts as the program leader of research in the School of Human Resource Sciences of the North-West University. He is the subeditor for the human resource management division of the South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences and acts as reviewer for various South African and international journals.

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This book examines the links between employee-organisation relationships, work wellness and the impact thereof on the labour market from a South African perspective. By employing this focus, the book explains the role of the employment relationship and the psychological contract in improving work wellness. To do so, it reviews the establishment and management of contracts in the context of labour relations at South African organisations. The studies presented focus on a range of topics, from individual wellness, the employment relationship and psychological contract, to relational wellness, the broader labour approach, and industrial action. The book presents a structural framework from an individual and labour relational perspective that links the employee-organisation relationship with wellness and its economic value, making it of interest to general and financial managers seeking to better grasp the link between work wellness and its financial implications.

Caracteristici

Links individual and relational wellness from an economic perspective Investigates the economic value of work wellness Proposes practices for enhancing work wellness Will appeal to students, academics and practitioners alike Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras