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Promoting Wellbeing at Work

Dollard, M. F., & Winefield, A. H. (2002). 'Mental health: Overemployment, underemployment, unemployment and healthy jobs.' In L. Morrow, I. Verins, & E. Willis (Eds.), Mental health and work: Issues and perspectives. Adelaide: Auseinet: The Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health.

Dollard and Winefield (2002) provide the following guidelines for best practice when implementing policies to improve mental health and wellbeing at work.

  • Be systematic.
  • Analyse risk.
  • Combine both work-directed and person-directed measures.
  • Use a participatory approach (worker involvement) (Scheflen, Lawler & Hackman, 1971).
  • Have top management support (Kompier et al., 1994).
  • Are evaluated for costs and benefits for the intervention and in terms of health and productivity outcomes (European Commission, 2000).

This summary is linked to the following pages:
Mental Health and Work
National Policies for Mental Health
Organisational Policies for Mental Health
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