Di Fabio Annamaria
Department of Education and Psychology, Psychology Section, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2017 Nov 14;8:1938. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01938. eCollection 2017.
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.
本文论述了健康组织的概念,并从健康组织和健康企业的定义入手。在健康组织中,文化、氛围和实践营造了一个有利于员工健康与安全以及组织效能的环境(洛维,2010年)。因此,一个健康的组织会带来健康且成功的企业(德·斯梅特等人,2007年;格拉维奇和巴拉德,2016年),这凸显了组织盈利能力与员工福祉之间的紧密联系。本文从关注成功与卓越的积极视角出发,描述了积极组织健康心理学是如何从职业健康心理学演变而来,进而发展为强调初级预防方法重要性的积极职业健康心理学。重点不在于缺陷和失败,而在于一种积极的组织态度,这种态度在个体、群体、组织和组织间等不同层面提出干预措施。健康组织需要在其特定情况、行业和文化之间找到恰当的平衡,突出福祉和可持续性的重要性。本文还讨论了工作与生活项目的可持续性以及工作在健康组织中的意义,强调认识、尊重和利用工作意义作为成长与成功关键的重要性。最后,本文探讨了健康组织的新研究和干预机会。