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Positive Healthy Organizations: Promoting Well-Being, Meaningfulness, and Sustainability in Organizations.
Di Fabio, Annamaria.
Affiliation
  • Di Fabio A; Department of Education and Psychology, Psychology Section, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Front Psychol ; 8: 1938, 2017.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29184517
This contribution deals with the concept of healthy organizations and starts with a definition of healthy organizations and healthy business. In healthy organizations, culture, climate, and practices create an environment conducive to employee health and safety as well as organizational effectiveness (Lowe, 2010). A healthy organization thus leads to a healthy and successful business (De Smet et al., 2007; Grawitch and Ballard, 2016), underlining the strong link between organizational profitability and workers' well-being. Starting from a positive perspective focused on success and excellence, the contribution describes how positive organizational health psychology evolved from occupational health psychology to positive occupational health psychology stressing the importance of a primary preventive approach. The focus is not on deficiency and failure but on a positive organizational attitude that proposes interventions at different levels: individual, group, organization, and inter-organization. Healthy organizations need to find the right balance between their particular situation, sector, and culture, highlighting the importance of well-being and sustainability. This contribution discusses also the sustainability of work-life projects and the meaning of work in healthy organizations, stressing the importance of recognizing, respecting, and using the meaning of work as a key for growth and success. Finally, the contribution discusses new research and intervention opportunities for healthy organizations.
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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Language: En Journal: Front Psychol Year: 2017 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Country of publication:

Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Language: En Journal: Front Psychol Year: 2017 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Country of publication: