Wellbeing is more than exercising or eating healthier; it’s about listening to what your body and mind needs in order to fully function in this crazy world! The Workplace can cause enormous amount of stress on the body that leads to many unhealthy and unproductive behaviors.
In this list of Wellbeing books, learn how wellbeing for yourself and employees will bring greater satisfaction to your workplace!
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Cracking Health Costs by Tom Emerick and Al Lewis
Cracking Health Costs reveals the best ways for companies and small businesses to fight back, right now, against rising healthcare costs. This book proposes multiple, practical steps that you can take to control costs and increase the effectiveness of the health benefit.
The book is all about rolling back health care costs to save companies and employees money. Working hand-in-hand with their employees, businesses need to ensure that, whenever feasible, employees with the most expensive diagnoses get optimal treatment at hospitals not practicing “volume-driven” medicine for higher profits. Less than 10% of employees incur 80% of costs. About 20% of patients have been completely misdiagnosed, while many others are simply the victims of surgeons who are either practicing medicine or over-treating for profit.
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Dying for a Paycheck by Jeffrey Pfeffer
In this timely, provocative book, Jeffrey Pfeffer contends that many modern management commonalities such as long work hours, work-family conflict, and economic insecurity are toxic to employees-hurting engagement, increasing turnover, and destroying people’s physical and emotional health- and also inimical to company performance. He argues that human sustainability should be as important as environmental stewardship.
In Dying for a Paycheck, Jeffrey Pfeffer marshals a vast trove of evidence and numerous examples from all over the world to expose the infuriating truth about modern work life: even as organizations allow management practices that literally sicken and kill their employees, those policies do not enhance productivity or the bottom line, thereby creating a lose-lose situation.
Exploring a range of important topics including layoffs, health insurance, work-family conflict, work hours, job autonomy, and why people remain in toxic environments, Pfeffer offers guidance and practical solutions all of us- employees, employers, and the government- can use to enhance workplace wellbeing. We must wake up to the dangers and enormous costs of today’s workplace, Pfeffer argues. Dying for a Paycheck is a clarion call for social movement focused on human sustainability. Pfeffer makes clear that the environment we work in is just as important as the one we live in, and with this urgent book, he opens our eyes and shows how we can make our workplace healthier and better.
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Wellbeing by Tom Rath and Jim Harter
Much of what we think will improve our wellbeing is either misguided or just plain wrong. Contrary to what many people believe, wellbeing isn’t just about being happy. Nor is it only about being wealthy or successful. And it’s certainly not limited to physical health and wellness. In fact, focusing on any of these elements in isolation may drive us to frustration and even a sense of failure.
When striving to improve our lives, we are quick to buy into programs that promise to help us make money, lose weight, or strengthen our relationships. While it might be easier to treat these critical areas in our lives as if they operate independently, they don’t. Gallup’s comprehensive study of people in more than 150 countries revealed five universal, interconnected elements that shape our lives.
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The Healthy Workplace Nudge by Rex miller, Phillip Williams and Michael O’Neill
Organizations and employees now spend an average of $18,000 per year employee for health costs, a 61% increase in 10 years. Every indicator projects these costs will double before 2030. This is an unsustainable path. These costs are the tip to an even bigger iceberg, the hidden costs of time out of the office, distraction, disengagement, and turnover. The Healthy Workplace Nudge explains the findings of research on 100 large organizations that have tackled the problems of employee health costs and disengagement in five fresh ways:
- Well-being leads to health and high performance
- wake up to the fact that 95% of traditional wellness programs fail to improve health or lower costs
- Behavioral economics has become a new powerful tool to nudge healthy behavior
- Healthy buildings are now cost effective and produce your strongest ROI to improving health
- leaders who develop healthy cultures achieve sustainable high performance and employee wellbeing
If you’re a leader who cares about the health and happiness of your employees, a human resources professional, or a professional who develops, designs, builds, or outfits workplace environments to improve employee health and wellbeing, this is the book you’ll want to have on hand.
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The Healthy Workplace by Leigh Stringer
When employees thrive, the company thrives. Is your workplace working for you and your employees? Studies show that unhealthy work habits, like staring at computer screens and rushing through fast-food lunches are taking their toll in the form of increased absenteeism, lost productivity, and higher insurance costs-but it doesn’t have to be that way. Companies such as google, Apple, Aetna, and Johnson Johnson have used innovative techniques to incorporate healthy habits and practices into the workday and into their culture-with impressive ROI. packed with real-life examples and the latest research, The Healthy Workplace proves that it pays to invest in your people’s well-being and reveals how to:
- Create a healthier, more energizing environment
- Reduce stress to enhance concentration
- Inspire movement at work
- Use choice architecture to encourage beneficial behaviors
- Support better sleep
- Heighten productivity without adding hours to the workday
Filled with tips for immediate improvement and guidelines for building a long-term plan, The Healthy Workplace will boost both employee well-being and the bottom line.
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StrengthsFinder by Tim Rath
Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?
Chances are, you don’t. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcoming than to developing our strengths.
To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment. StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover your Strengths, the book spent more than five years on the bestseller lists and ignited a global conversation, while Strengthsfinder helped millions to discover their top five talents.
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How to Build a Thriving Culture at Work by Rosie Ward and Jon Robinson
Regardless of size, location, or industry, every company wants to have a competitive advantage over others in the marketplace. Despite, many businesses don’t focus on what would truly set them apart: creating the conditions for both organizational and employee wellbeing to thrive. When a company and its employees are thriving, everyone wins.
What many organizations do to improve performance and employee engagement fails long term because it is mismatched with the culture. Too often companies try to support employee wellbeing by offering outdated, ineffective workplace wellness programs that amount to nothing but a drain on resources and time. Organizations greatly increase their chances for success when they focus on creating a thriving workplace culture.
How to Build a Thriving culture at Work explores:
- The current state of culture in many organizations- in most businesses, attempts to improve performance and health are based on outdated, flawed scientific paradigms of human behavior and motivation. These antiquated approaches, which typically rely on extrinsic motivation, simply do not work.
- The benefits of embracing a new, sustainable wellbeing model- enlightened companies build and maintain culture by creating the conditions that support employees’ ability to leverage better thinking. by nurturing autonomy, mastery of skills and purpose- recruitment, retention and performance improve and employees are freed, fueled, and inspired to bring their best selves to work.
