Healthy at Work: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This book aims at exploring the link between corporate and organizational culture, public and private policies, leadership and managerial skills or attitudes, and the successful implementation of work-related healthcare in Europe. Therefore it brings together a wide range of empirical and theoretical contributions from occupational health, management, psychology, medicine, economics, and (organizational) sociology to address the question of how to sustainably promote occupational health. Such important questions are explored as: What aspects of a corporate culture can be associated with health issues? How does leadership style affect the health of employees? How are health-related decisions in the workplace affected by the political environment? To what extent are interventions influenced by corporate culture, leadership and public policy? How can we make such interventions sustainable?

Markus Wiencke holds a PhD in psychology and an MA in social and cultural anthropology from the Freie Universität Berlin. He has training as a systemic therapist and counselor. In his work at the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) in Berlin, he focuses on structures and strategies for health and safety at work. Previously, he was visiting research fellow for the Healthy at Work (GiB) project at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. Further, he has worked as the therapeutic head of ward for a psychiatric clinic and as a management consultant. He has written on the social and cultural dimensions of health (promotion), based on his fieldwork in Germany, Brazil, Chile, India, and Tanzania.