Workplace Health: Employee Fitness And Exercise

by John Kerr (Editor), Tom Cox (Editor), Amanda Jane Griffiths (Editor)

Overview

Given the growing awareness of the negative effects of work-related stress, Many Businesses Are Focusing On Active Health Promotion To Enhance employee health, well-being and performance. This text aims to review the state of the art and offer ideas and suggestions for how stress-related employee health problems can be combated through the provision of effective fitness and exercise programmes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748401437
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/01/1996
Series:	Issues in Occupational Health
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

John H. Kerr Institute of Health and Sports Sciences The University of Tsukuba Tsukuba Ibaraki 305 Japan. Amanda Griffiths Centre for Organizational Health & Development Department of Psychology University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD UK. Tom Cox Centre for Organizational Health & Development Department of Psychology University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD UK.

Table of Contents

Contributors — Preface: promoting workplace health — 1 Employee exercise programmes: organisational and individual perspectives /Amanda Griffiths — 2 Financial aspects of employee fitness programmes /Roy J. Shephard — 3 Assessing the relationship between exercise and employee mental health: methodological concerns /Steve M. Jex and Deanne A. Heinisch — 4 Exercise and mental health: the role of activity and fitness /Kathryn Thirlaway and David Benton — 5 The psychological benefits of physical exercise for women: improving employee quality of life /Precilla Y.L. Choi and Nanette Mutrie — 6 Exercise programmes and the promotion of health /Larry L. Fahlberg and Lauri A. Fahlberg — 7 Understanding exercise as a method of stress management: a constructivist framework /Karen R. Flood and Bonita C. Long — 8 Exercise, shiftwork and sleep /Mikko Harma — 9 Alcohol abuse, physical fitness and the prevention of relapse /Sven Svebak — 10 Employee fitness programmes and reduced absenteeism: a case study /John H. Kerr — 11 Employee fitness and exercise: the way forward /John H. Kerr — Author biographies — Index.