Managing Employee Well-Being
A Guide for Human Resources Managers
Donald Currie

Donald Currie is HR Consultant to the Southampton Business School. He has extensive hands on experience of personnel management and also managed the personnel management course at Southampton Institute for 12 years.

Readership
Middle and senior managers in medium to large sized organizations all need to understand people management. Human resource/personnel managers, departmental managers and functional managers all need to understand how to manage staff to gain the best advantage for both the organization and the employee.

Summary
A book to help busy managers recognise the advantages to the organization of having a healthy and content workforce. Employee retention is now more important than ever before in this climate of a “talent war” and organizations can not afford to waste human
resources when specialization means that there is a definite skill shortage.

．This book will help organizations understand the steps they need to take to retain their talented staff, how to manage stress in the workplace and the effects it has on the organization and employees.It outlines the factors that are conducive to a healthy and productive workplace such as culture, satisfaction, involvement, commitment, and reward. The book also looks at how to manage diversity to advantage, understand and work out personal differences between individual employees, and manage change efficiently, effectively and sensitively.

．Key features of this book relate to intentional and unintentional attitudes and activities of managers that induce stress at work, such as failing to provide equal opportunities; applying too much pressure to people; bullying and failing to give sufficient importance
to employees' problems.

Contents
Employee well-being; Understanding stress; The healthy organization; Human resource management; Satisfaction, involvement and motivation;Managing diversity; Managing individual differences; Legal aspects of employee well-being; Technology in society; Managing organizational change

Chandos Publishing l Oxford l England

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