Bridging Occupational, Organizational and Public Health: A Transdisciplinary Approach

251 Pages·2014·3.529 MB·English

by  Georg F. Bauer, Oliver Hämmig (auth.)

Georg F. Bauer · Oliver Hämmig
Bridging
Occupational,
Organizational
and Public Health
A Transdisciplinary Approach
Bridging Occupational, Organizational
and Public Health

Georg F. Bauer (cid:129) Oliver Hämmig
Bridging Occupational,
Organizational
and Public Health
A Transdisciplinary Approach
Georg F. Bauer Oliver Hämmig
University of Zürich University of Zürich
ETH Zürich ETH Zürich
Zürich , Switzerland Zürich , Switzerland
ISBN 978-94-007-5639-7 ISBN 978-94-007-5640-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5640-3
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The book is dedicated to Prof. Felix
Gutzwiller, former Director of the Institute
of Social and Preventive Medicine of the
University of Zurich, and Prof. Theo Wehner,
Director of the Center for Organizational
and Occupational Sciences at the Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich,
who supported us in our transdisciplinary
research and in bringing together the fi elds
addressed in this book.

Contents
1 Bridging Occupational, Organizational and Public
Health: A Transdisciplinary Approach ................................................. 1
Georg F. Bauer and Oliver Hämmig
Part I Psychosocial Factors in Occupational and Organizational
Health: A Key Public Health Issue
2 Social Inequalities in Work and Health
in a Globalized Economy ........................................................................ 15
Johannes Siegrist
3 Towards Organizational Health: Stress, Positive
Organizational Behavior, and Employee Well-Being ........................... 29
Susan Cartwright and Cary L. Cooper
4 A Critical Review of the Job Demands-Resources
Model: Implications for Improving Work and Health ........................ 43
Wilmar B. Schaufeli and Toon W. Taris
5 The Role of Psychosocial Factors in Musculoskeletal Disorders ........ 69
Brigitta Danuser
6 The Impact of Social Capital on the Health
and Performance of Organizations ........................................................ 91
Bernhard Badura
Part II Improving Public and Organizational Health
7 Capacity Building as a Key Mechanism
of Organizational Health Development ................................................. 103
Susanne Hoffmann , Gregor J. Jenny, and Georg F. Bauer
vii
viii Contents
8 Systemic Consulting for Organizational
Health Development: Theory and Practice .......................................... 117
Georg F. Bauer , Katharina Lehmann ,
Anita Blum-Rüegg, and Gregor J. Jenny
9 Improving Organizational Health:
The Case of Health Promoting Hospitals .............................................. 133
Jürgen M. Pelikan , H ermann Schmied,
and Christina Dietscher
10 Integration of Work and Personal Life as a Key Factor
for Individual, Organizational and Public Health ............................... 155
Oliver Hämmig
Part III Beyond Organizational Health: Social and Political Issues
11 Mental Health as a Complete State: How the Salutogenic
Perspective Completes the Picture ........................................................ 179
Corey L. M. Keyes
12 Recovery from Work During Off-Job Time ......................................... 193
Sabine A.E. Geurts
13 Beyond Paid Work: Voluntary Work
and its Salutogenic Implications for Society ......................................... 209
Patrick Jiranek , Rebecca Brauchli, and Theo Wehner
14 Policy Approaches to Occupational and Organizational Health ........ 231
Stavroula Leka and Aditya Jain
Chapter 1
Bridging Occupational, Organizational
and Public Health: A Transdisciplinary
Approach
Georg F. Bauer and Oliver Hämmig
Abstract The book aims to better integrate the fast growing, differentiated knowledge
base of the fi elds of occupational, organizational and public health. It intends to
broaden the evidence-base, legitimacy and effi cacy of related interventions and thus
to increase their public health impact. To create an overview and common ground
across disciplines, this chapter provides an introduction to the transdisciplinary
approach pursued by the book. It shows current trends in economy and society and
their implications for employees and their working conditions. The chapter
highlights how the fi elds of occupational, organizational and public health may
jointly address these trends—by sharing more positive analytical perspectives and
by linking occupational health issues to the larger organizational and societal
context. The chapter summarizes the fi rst part of the book highlighting the relevance
of psychosocial factors at work, the second part showing strategies to improve them
at the organizational level and the last part emphasizing social and political issues to
be addressed as part of a larger public health strategy. Based on this summary, specifi c
conclusions for future, more integrative research and practice in occupational,
organizational and public health are drawn.
Keywords Occupational health (cid:129) Organizational health (cid:129) Public health
(cid:129) Transdisciplinary research (cid:129) Trends in economy and society (cid:129) Research implications
(cid:129) Practice implications
G. F. Bauer (*) (cid:129) O. Hämmig
Division of Public and Organizational Health, Institute of Social
and Preventive Medicine, University of Zürich, Hirschengraben 84,
8001 Zürich, Switzerland
e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
G.F. Bauer and O. Hämmig, Bridging Occupational, Organizational and Public Health: 1
A Transdisciplinary Approach, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5640-3_1,
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