Healthy at Work

This book aims at exploring the link between corporate and organizational culture, public and private policies, leadership and managerial skills or attitudes, and the successful implementation of work-related healthcare in Europe. Therefore it brings together a wide range of empirical and theoretical contributions from occupational health, management, psychology, medicine, economics, and (organizational) sociology to address the question of how to sustainably promote occupational health. Such important questions are explored as: What aspects of a corporate culture can be associated with health issues? How does leadership style affect the health of employees? How are health-related decisions in the workplace affected by the political environment? To what extent are interventions influenced by corporate culture, leadership and public policy? How can we make such interventions sustainable?

Author Biography

Markus Wiencke holds a PhD in psychology and an MA in social and cultural anthropology from the Freie Universitat Berlin. He has training as a systemic therapist and counselor. In his work at the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) in Berlin, he focuses on structures and strategies for health and safety at work. Previously, he was visiting research fellow for the Healthy at Work (GiB) project at the Leuphana University of Luneburg, Germany. Further, he has worked as the therapeutic head of ward for a psychiatric clinic and as a management consultant. He has written on the social and cultural dimensions of health (promotion), based on his fieldwork in Germany, Brazil, Chile, India, and Tanzania. Mirella Cacace holds a PhD in economics and currently works as postdoctoral researcher at the Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM) at the University of Bremen, Germany. Her previous positions include analyst with RAND Europe and visiting professor at the Leuphana University of Luneburg, Germany. In 2008 and 2009, she was a Harkness Fellow in International Health Policy and Practice, sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund, and hosted by Columbia University in New York City. Her main areas of research concern institutional economics and international healthcare systems, especially in Germany and the United States. Sebastian Fischer has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Leuphana University of Luneburg, Germany, where he also received his PhD in organizational psychology. He researched the influence of situational characteristics on employees with different personalities. His research focuses on explaining employee behaviors and feelings ranging from stress and withdrawal from work to innovative and proactive behaviors. Recently, he joined market research focusing on outcome perspectives of innovation rather than on processes.