Derailed Organizational Interventions for Stress and Well-Being Confessions of Failure and Solutions for Success /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Karanika-Murray, Maria (Editor), Biron, Caroline (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Leadership.; Medical research.; Economic sociology.; Quality of life.; Industrial psychology.; Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology.; Quality of Life Research.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.

Providing an overview of researchers' and practitioners’ “confessions” on the fascinating phenomenon of failed or derailed organizational health and well-being interventions, and contextualizing these confessions, is the aim of this innovative volume. Organizational intervention failures, parad...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction – Why do some interventions derail? Deconstructing the elements of organizational interventions for stress and well-being
• Part 1 Content
• Chapter 2 Derailed or failed? A closer look at reduced working hours as an occupational health intervention
• Chapter 3 Integrating job stress and workplace mental health literacy intervention: Challenges and benefits
• Chapter 4 Burnout: Why interventions fail and what Can we do differently
• Chapter 5 Managing work-related musculoskeletal disorders - socio-technical ‘solutions’ and unintended psychosocial consequences
• Part 2 Context
• Chapter 6 Population level interventions to control psychosocial risks: Problems and prospects
• Chapter 7 Derailed, but implemented - A study of two natural work-life interventions.-Chapter 8 Organizational changes torpedoing the intervention
• Chapter 9 Corporate philosophy: Making stress and wellbeing a priority
• Chapter 10 Evidence is not enough: The challenges of engaging organisational stakeholders with different perspectives
• Chapter 11 In line for takeoff…and waiting: Challenges with getting a wellness intervention started in the Military
• Chapter 12 Assessing and addressing the fit of planned interventions to the organizational context
• Part 3 Process
• Chapter 13 Managing conflicts and diversity during implementation of programs and other changes
• Chapter 14 Carnage in the research lab: Power, personality and neglect
• Chapter 15 Power mad: A case of professional services
• Chapter 16 “I Object!” Overcoming obstacles between organizational researchers and legal advisors
• Chapter 17 Challenges of intervention acceptance in complex, multifaceted organizations: The importance of local champions
• Chapter 18 Mutual goals as essential for the results of team coaching
• Chapter 19 Role behavior of the coach and the participants as essential for the results of individual coaching
• Chapter 20 Increasing worker participation: The mental health action checklist
• Chapter 21 Decreasing response rates in employee health surveys: initial findings from a Longitudinal Stress-management Project in the Workplace
• Chapter 22 Recruitment and retention challenges of a mental health promotion intervention targeting small and medium enterprises
• Chapter 23 Perspectives on randomization and readiness for change in a workplace intervention study
• Part 4  Outcome
• Chapter 24 Ensuring the long-term sustainability of organizational interventions: Potential obstacles to be avoided
• Chapter 25 Creating sustained change: Avoiding derailment during the Last stage of a wellbeing intervention
• Chapter 26 A proper needs assessment is key to starting a wellbeing intervention off right
• Chapter 27 Explaining intervention success and failure: What works, when, and why?
• Chapter 28. The ‘best available evidence’ could be better: Evidence from systematic reviews of organizational interventions
• Chapter 29 Work analysis and the resolution of organizational conflict: Theoretical method, measurement and application
• Part 5 Concluding Thoughts
• Chapter 30 The highs and lows of occupational stress intervention research: Lessons learnt from collaborations with high-risk industries
• Chapter 31 Stress management interventions: Reflections
• Chapter 32 Concluding thoughts – From black and white to colours: Moving the science of organizational interventions for stress and well-being forward.