Make Work Healthy: Create a Sustainable Organization with High-Performing Employees - Hardcover

by John S. Ryan (Author), Michael J. Burchell (Author)

Reach new levels of organizational productivity and achievement by redefining the phrase "workplace health"

In Make Work Healthy, a team of distinguished organizational transformation professionals delivers an insightful how-to manual for improving organizational performance with a new approach to workforce management. The book offers organizations, leaders, and managers with the knowledge, data, frameworks, and methodologies they need to radically transform how they approach day-to-day operations into a sustainable and resilient business success model.

The authors focus on workplace health--in a broad sense--as a way of focusing organizational attention on culture, building work capacity, productivity, and sustainability. They explain the tangible business value that comes from focusing on wellbeing as well as the symbiotic relationship between organizational health and employee health. Make Work Healthy includes:

• Strategies for moving beyond typical "wellness" initiatives such as just addressing illness and absence reduction to a more holistic understanding of "healthy work"
• Ways to locate, attract, recruit, and retain talent over the long-term by aligning organizational goals with employee health
• Tactics to help managers of dispersed, hybrid, and remote teams manage feelings of pressure and isolation

An indispensable, effective, and holistic new take on organizational and employee health, Make Work Healthy will earn a place in the hands of managers, executives, board members, and other business and human resources leaders who seek impressive gains in company productivity and fulfilment.

Front Jacket

In Make Work Healthy, a team of change management and workplace well-being specialists deliver a transformational how-to book on improving organizational performance via a new approach to workforce management. In the book, you'll find the knowledge, models, and methodology you need to radically alter your organization's current approach to creating a resilient and sustainable system of operations.

The authors demonstrate how to shift the focus of your organization's leaders to the concept of health, in its broadest sense. You'll learn how to tackle extraordinary challenges--including COVID recovery, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, well-being, mental health management, belonging, purpose, and sustainability--by redefining what "health" means in your company and changing how your people achieve it.

You'll discover how to move away from an ad-hoc, tick-box, tactical, short-term, programmatic, and awareness-based model of employee health that is solely focused on reducing absenteeism and acute sickness and towards a strategic, data-driven, evidence-based, systematic, and culture-based approach to improving productivity, work capacity, and sustainability.

The authors of Make Work Healthy have collected over 12,000 survey responses from dozens of organizations. The book includes stories from PwC, Deloitte, Takeda, SAP, Procter and Gamble, ISS and many more--with practical ideas you can apply immediately to improve the health of the people working in your firm.

A must-read roadmap to developing a holistic and effective new methodology for organizational and employee health, Make Work Healthy will earn a prominent place on the bookshelves of executives, managers, board members, human resources professionals, entrepreneurs, founders, and other business leaders seeking to make impressive gains in company productivity and employee retention.

Back Jacket

PRAISE FOR MAKE WORK HEALTHY

"Healthy work and workplaces form parts of a healthy society. This book will encourage organizational leaders to make that happen. Ryan and Burchell have combined to produce a really impactful and inspirational piece of work."
--LEO VARADKAR, Taoiseach (Prime Minister of Ireland)

"Our physical health and psychological well-being matter most when at risk. Likewise, when organizations have toxic cultures and unhealthy work practices, they harm everyone affiliated with the organization. Drawing on research and experiences, John and Michael offer relevant ideas and practical tools to create a healthy work environment that is more needed today than ever before!"
--DAVE ULRICH, Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

"If Adam Smith were to write his book right now, he would change his title from Wealth of Nations to Health of Nations. And if you were to read John Ryan and Michael Burchell's remarkable book Make Work Healthy you will understand why work isn't working and learn a practical, compelling plan for success for people, organizations and society. The evidence is there, the narrative is convincing, the style is engaging: this book is too important to be missed."
--PAOLO GALLO, author, speaker, and former Chief Human Resources Officer at World Economic Forum in Geneva

"A refreshing take on what is required to create a virtuous circle in the modern day workplace. As a great believer in the need for focus on a more holistic approach to colleague well-being, it is a pleasure to read Ryan and Burchell's fact based approach to this emerging theme in the workplace debate."
--JACOB AARUP-ANDERSEN, Group CEO, ISS A/S

Author Biography

JOHN S. RYAN is the Chief Executive Officer at Healthy Place to Work. He formerly led Great Place to Work Ireland and was a broadcast journalist. He is a regular international speaker and media contributor in Wellbeing, Trust, and Organizational Performance.

MICHAEL J. BURCHELL, EdD, is an independent consultant and executive coach. He is an expert in organizational change, well-being, team effectiveness, and DEI. He is the co-author of No Excuses: How You Can Turn Any Workplace Into a Great One and The Great Workplace: How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why It Matters.