Dying for a Paycheck
Seiten
2018
Harper Business (Verlag)
9780062800923 (ISBN)
Harper Business (Verlag)
9780062800923 (ISBN)
In this provocative book, Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer argues that the modern workplace as become as deadly as second-hand smoke, affecting everything from employees' engagement, turnover, stress and especially their physical and emotional health.
You don't have to work in a coal mine, on an oil rig, or in construction to face a possibly toxic, health-destroying workplace. Just ask the person in a senior finance role confronting almost impossible work demands that required frequent all-nighters, leading to workplace-induced alcohol and drug addiction. Or ask the news media producer who demonstrated organizational loyalty and commitment by being willing to go anywhere in the world at any time on almost no notice to help get the story. That person gained 60 pounds in a short period from not having time to eat properly let alone exercise. Or the person who started on antidepressants within a week of joining Salesforce in a marketing role. The stories are almost endless, the costs, to both people and their employers, enormous, and the problems seem to be getting worse, not better. In Dying for a Paycheck, Jeffrey Pfeffer reveals that even as organizations of all kinds regularly permit if not encourage management practices that literally sicken and kill their employees, those policies do not improve organizational profitability or performance, further damaging those employees' wellbeing. Unhealthy workplaces diminish employee engagement, increase turnover, reduce job performance - and drive up health insurance costs. Pfeffer wants us to take steps to improve workplace wellbeing and employee physical and mental health. First, current and prospective employees will have to understand what constitutes health risks in their work environment, and armed with that information, begin to select and deselect their employers at least partly on that basis. Second, employers will need to understand what their unhealthful management practices are costing them. Third, governments at all levels will need to first acknowledge and then do something about the externalities created as employers offload people who were physically and psychologically damaged at work onto various parts of the public health and welfare system. And fourth, societies will need social movements, or maybe several social movements, that make human sustainability and people's work environments as important as environmental sustainability and the physical environment have become. Covering topics including layoffs, health insurance, work-family conflict, and autonomy, as well as addressing why many people remain in toxic environments despite knowing the metal and physical cost, Dying for a Paycheck will change how managers and employees view human sustainability.
You don't have to work in a coal mine, on an oil rig, or in construction to face a possibly toxic, health-destroying workplace. Just ask the person in a senior finance role confronting almost impossible work demands that required frequent all-nighters, leading to workplace-induced alcohol and drug addiction. Or ask the news media producer who demonstrated organizational loyalty and commitment by being willing to go anywhere in the world at any time on almost no notice to help get the story. That person gained 60 pounds in a short period from not having time to eat properly let alone exercise. Or the person who started on antidepressants within a week of joining Salesforce in a marketing role. The stories are almost endless, the costs, to both people and their employers, enormous, and the problems seem to be getting worse, not better. In Dying for a Paycheck, Jeffrey Pfeffer reveals that even as organizations of all kinds regularly permit if not encourage management practices that literally sicken and kill their employees, those policies do not improve organizational profitability or performance, further damaging those employees' wellbeing. Unhealthy workplaces diminish employee engagement, increase turnover, reduce job performance - and drive up health insurance costs. Pfeffer wants us to take steps to improve workplace wellbeing and employee physical and mental health. First, current and prospective employees will have to understand what constitutes health risks in their work environment, and armed with that information, begin to select and deselect their employers at least partly on that basis. Second, employers will need to understand what their unhealthful management practices are costing them. Third, governments at all levels will need to first acknowledge and then do something about the externalities created as employers offload people who were physically and psychologically damaged at work onto various parts of the public health and welfare system. And fourth, societies will need social movements, or maybe several social movements, that make human sustainability and people's work environments as important as environmental sustainability and the physical environment have become. Covering topics including layoffs, health insurance, work-family conflict, and autonomy, as well as addressing why many people remain in toxic environments despite knowing the metal and physical cost, Dying for a Paycheck will change how managers and employees view human sustainability.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.03.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780062800923 / 9780062800923 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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