Participatory intervention from an organizational perspective: Employees as active agents in creating a healthy work environment

Salutogenic Organizations and Change: The Concepts Behind Organizational Health Intervention Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 327-350

  Nielsen, Karina ^a,b   Stage, Maria ^b   Abildgaard, Johan Simonsen ^c   Brauer, Charlotte V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cognitive theory; Job crafting; Organizational intervention; Participation; Process evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961346324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6470-5_18     Document Type: Chapter

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