Moving Towards Positive Organizational Health: Challenges and a Proposal for a Research Model of Organizational Health Development

Contemporary Occupational Health Psychology: Global Perspectives on Research and Practice

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 126-145

  Bauer, Georg F ^a   Jenny, Gregor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

"Determinants" of OH; "Outcomes" of OH; Concept of OHD; Definition of relevant outcomes; Emerging positive perspective; Intervention strategies, in improving OH; Moving towards positive OH; OHD research model; OHD research model, challenges; Understanding OHD, change within system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874176794     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119942849.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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