The Fulfilling Workplace: The Organization’s Role in Achieving Individual and Organizational Health

In earlier books in the Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk Series, Cary Cooper and Ron Burke have identified the role played by human frailties and organizational toxicity in influencing individual and family functioning, and satisfaction and performance, and both unit and organizational effectiveness and success. These factors included psychological, social and organizational risks to individuals and workplaces. The Fulfilling Workplace extends their work deeper into organizations, and the organization’s role in coming to grips both with human frailties that end up causing damage, and toxic workplaces, again destructive to individual and organizational health.

Ronald Burke’s work has focused on the relationship between the work environment and individual and organizational health. He was Founding Editor of the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences and has served on editorial boards of more than a dozen journals. He has served as Director of the PhD Program at Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, and as Associate Dean for Research. Cary L. Cooper, CBE, is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University, England. He is Founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Editor in Chief of the medical journal Stress & Health. He is Fellow of the Academy of Management, Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Royal College of Physicians. He is currently Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences. In 2001, Cary was awarded a CBE by the Queen for his contribution to organizational health. He was the lead scientist on the UK government’s Foresight project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing.