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

• Main Author: Linde, Bennie (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Economics,
• Subjects: Organization.; Planning.; Personnel management.; Medical research.; Labor law.; Labor economics.; Economic sociology.; Quality of life.; Economics.; Labor Economics.; Quality of Life Research.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Labour Law/Social Law.; Human Resource Management.

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 we...

Table of Contents:

• 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.