Editor: Per Ø. Saksvik

Prerequisites for Healthy Organizational Change

eBook: US $33 Special Offer (PDF + Printed Copy): US $87
Printed Copy: US $71
Library License: US $132
ISBN: 978-1-60805-435-0 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-60805-011-6 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2009
DOI: 10.2174/97816080501161090101

Introduction

We live in a time where organizational change has become the norm. Organizations are constantly undergoing major restructurings be it outsourcing, downsizing or major reorganizational changes, e.g., team or LEAN implementation. Stability has become the exception. Managing good and healthy change seems to be a prerequisite to secure the organization’s survival. Research has indicated that the way the change is implemented greatly influences the results of changes and that organizational change may have detrimental effects on employees’ working environment, health and well-being. The unique contribution of this Ebook is the healthy change perspective. This book is about how change can benefit the health of the organization and the individual employee, and it is hoped that it will be of interest to many readers.

Contributors

Editor(s):
Per Ø. Saksvik
Professor
Trondheim
Norway




Contributor(s):
Karen Albertsen
Senior Researcher, National Research Centre for the Working Environment
Lerso Parkallé 105 DK-2100
Copenhagen
Denmark


Gunn Robstad Andersen
PhD-student. Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Alfred Getz veg 3 Sentralbygg 1 12 etasje
Trondheim, N-7491
Norway


Sten-Olof Brenner
Senior Researcher, National Research Centre for the Working Environment Lerso
Parkallé 105
Copenhagen
DK
Denmark


Live Bakke Finne
PhD-student, National Institute of Occupational Health
Oslo
Norway


Fay Giæver
PhD-student, Psychology department
NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)/Trondheim Business School



Tove Helland Hammer
Professor, ILR School
Cornell University
146 Ives Hall East
Ithaca
NY , 14853-3901
USA


Peter Hasle
Senior Researcher, National Research Centre for the Working Environment Lerso Parkallé
105 DK-2100
Copenhagen
Denmark


Hilde Hetland
Associate Professor, Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen
Christies gate 12
Bergen, 5015
Norway


Gunhild Z. Ingstad
PhD-student, Department of Psychology Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management
NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Trondheim, 7491
Norway


Karina Nielsen
Senior Researcher, National Research Centre for the Working Environment Lerso
Parkallé 105
Copenhagen
DK, 2100
Denmark


Raymond Randall
Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Leicester,
106 New Walk, LE1 7EA
UK


Åslaug Botnevik Rennesund
PhD-student, Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Media
Culture and Social Sciences University of Stavanger



Ingvild Berg Saksvik
PhD-student, Department of Psychosocial Science
University of Bergen
Christies gate 12
Bergen, 5015
Norway


Per Øystein Saksvik
Professor, Department of Psychology Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management
NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Trondheim, 7491
Norway


Ole H. Sørensen
Senior Researcher, National Research Centre for the Working Environment Lerso
Parkallé 105
Copenhagen
DK, 2100
Denmark


Sturle D. Tvedt
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management
NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Trondheim, 7491
Norway




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