This handbook focuses on organizational well being in its widest sense, and is concerned with reviewing the factors which are associated with ill health, as well as those which promote positive health and well being. In it, leading international scholars focus on the key issues around measuring well being, and individual and organizational factors.

SECTION I: THE COSTS AND INDICATORS OF WELL BEING IN THE WORK PLACE; SECTION II: MODELS, MEASURES, AND METHODOLOGIES FOR ASSESSING WELL BEING; SECTION III: INDIVIDUAL FACTORS AND WELL BEING; SECTION IV: JOB/ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS AND WELL BEING; SECTION V: ORGANIZATIONAL INTERVENTIONS TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND WELL BEING; SECTION VI: NEW PERSPECTIVES

Considers the links between business performance and the well being of employees Covers such issues as absenteeism and presenteeism, health and safety, stress, work-life balance, emotion, risk and rewards, working hours, leadership, emotional labour, and job insecurity Leading international contributors from the field Includes work from psychologists, HRM scholars, and organizational theorists

Susan Cartwright is a Chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Well Being and Director of Centre for Organizational Health and Well-Being at Lancaster University. Susan is currently the President and Fellow of the British Academy of Management. She is a past Editor of the Leadership and Organization Development Journal and a current Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management. Susan has authored 13 books, over 40 scholarly articles and 30 book chapters. Her main research interests lie in the area of occupational stress and well being, human aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and emotional intelligence. She was Editor of the Volume V of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management on Human Resource Management (Blackwell, 2005) and Co-Editor, with Cary L. Cooper and Christopher Early, of The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate (Wiley, 2001) Cary L. Cooper is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health in Lancaster University Management School and Pro Vice Chancellor (External Relations) at Lancaster University. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Royal Society of Medicine, and the Royal Society of Health. Cary was the founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behaviour and is Co-Editor of Stress and Health. In 1998, he was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award for his contribution to management science from the US Academy of Management. Cary is the author of over 100 books on occupational stress, women at work, and industrial and organizational psychology and has written over 400 scholarly articles.

Considers the links between business performance and the well being of employees Covers such issues as absenteeism and presenteeism, health and safety, stress, work-life balance, emotion, risk and rewards, working hours, leadership, emotional labour, and job insecurity Leading international contributors from the field Includes work from psychologists, HRM scholars, and organizational theorists