The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Well-Being

ISBN-13: 9783030300241 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 1496 str.

Satinder Dhiman

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A. WORK ALIENATION AND DISENGAGEMENT

1. Reality of World-Wide Workplace Disengagement30

2. Disempowering Organizational Cultures

3. Toxic Work Environment

4. Toxic Organizations and Leaders 

5. Empowering and Healthy Workplace

6. Stress at Work and Workplace Depression

7. Workplace Bullying

8. Bully bosses and mental health of the employees

9. Destructive/Negative Emotions in the Workplace

B. HAPPINESS ADVANTAGE AT WORK

1. Alchemy of Positive Change at Work

2. Myths of Happiness: Separating Science from the Hype

3. Happiness comes before success

4. Happiness, Human Potential and Workplace Well-being 

5. Purpose, Meaning, Joy and Fulfillment at Work

6. Positive Outliers at Work: Personal and Organizational Excellence

7. Subjective Well-Being: The Science of Happiness 

8. Meaning and Motivation at Work

9. Greater engagement, retention, and performance through Flow at Work

10. Cultivating Flow in the Workplace: Understanding the Psychology of Flow

C. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, ORG. BEHAVIOR

1. Leveraging Best Practices in Social Psychology

2. Engaged, Empowered, and Inspired at Work

3. Fulfilled Employees: From Wealth to Well-Being

4. Gratitude and Compassion Count the most for Happiness

5. Trust, Empathy and Oxytocin

6. Harnessing Happy Hormones at Work

7. In-group vs. Out-group Polarization

8. Cognitive dissonance

9. The Bystander Effect

10. Peak: Learning from the Science of Expert Performance

11. Employee Engagement: Key to Organization Success50

12. Empowering/High Performing Work Environment

13. Self-Directed High Performing Teams

D. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

1. Self-Awareness Learned Emotional Competencies

2. Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

3. Social Intelligence (in the Workplace): The New Science of Human Relationship

4. Building trust through Emotional and Social Intelligence

5. Resilience

6. Multiple Intelligence Construct and Workplace Excellence

E. SPIRITUALITY AND SECULAR ETHICS 

1. Secular Ethics: Becoming a Force of Good

2. Inclusive Workplace Spirituality: Pointers and Prospects

3. Spiritual Leadership and Workplace Well-being

4. Holistic Leadership: Harnessing Self, Service and Spirit at Work 

5. Appreciative Inquiry: Leaders as “Good-Finders”

6. Altruism: Transforming ourselves to transform the world

F. MINDFULNESS AT WORKPLACE

1. Self-Regulation, Self Awareness, Meta awareness

2. Pathways to Healthy Mind, Body, and Spirit

3. Mindfulness and Altered Traits

4. Mindfulness, Compassion and Self-Compassion at Work

5. Attention, Focus and Joyful Transformations at Work

6. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and alternations in Brain 

7. Mindfulness in the Workplace: Benefits, Risks, Challenges 

8. Cultivating Mindfulness in the Workplace

G. ORGANIZATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FOR LEADERS AND MANAGERS

1. Ethics of Quantum Mechanics, Neuroscience, Neuroplasticity

2. Becoming a More Effective Leader Using the Latest Brain Research

3. Information Overload and Myth of Multitasking 

4. Leading by Dissent & Brain Health

5. Alive At Work: Loving what you Do

6. Harnessing right emotions for right decisions

7. Brain Agility and Engagement

8. The symbiotic relationship between Body and Brain: Lessons for Leadership

H. World’s Contemplative Wisdom Traditions

1. Wisdom of Desert Fathers

2. Buddhist Psychology, Happiness, and Workplace Flourishing

3. Wisdom of Hasidic Masters

4. Classical Wisdom for Modern Leaders

5. Stoic Guide to Good Life: Dealing with Anger and Grief the Stoic way

6. Managing by the Vedas: Workplace Happiness and Fulfillment according to Vedānta

7. Well-being Insights from World’s Major Wisdom Traditions

8. Leading Organizations with Wisdom

O autorze

Satinder K. Dhiman Ph.D., Ed.D., MBA, M.Com (Gold Medalist)

Scholar | Author | Associate Dean | Chair and Director, MBA | Accreditation Evaluator |Well-being Consultant | Professor

Recognized as a lead thinker for his pioneering contributions to the field of transformational leadership, workplace spirituality, workplace well-being, sustainability, and fulfillment in personal and professional arena, Professor Dhiman is a sought-after keynote speaker at regional, national, and international conferences. In 2013, Professor Dhiman was invited to be the opening speaker at the prestigious TEDx Conference @ College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, California. Since then, he has led several major national and international conferences as co-organizer and/or as track chair.

With an instructional and research focus on leadership and organizational behavior – and with specific concentration on sustainability, workplace spirituality, and well-being – Professor Dhiman holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Tilburg University, the Netherlands; an Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University, Los Angeles; an MBA from West Coast University, Los Angeles; and a Master’s degree in Commerce from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, having earned the Gold Medal. He has also completed advanced executive leadership programs at Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton.

Recipient of several national and international academic and professional honors, Professor Dhiman won the Woodbury University Ambassador of the Year Award in 2015 and 2017 and MBA Professor of the Year Award in 2015; Scholarly and Creative Writing Award, 2019; Most Valuable MBA Professor Award, 2018; Most Inspirational and Most Charismatic MBA Teacher Award 2012, 2013/2014/2018; the Steve Allen Excellence in Education Award in 2006: and the prestigious ACBSP International Teacher of the Year Award in 2004. Most recently, Professor Dhiman chaired a symposium at the Academy of Management that received 2019 Best Symposium Proposal Award. He was also invited by Monash University, Australia, to lead a track in Spirituality in Management in the 16th International Conference in Business Management, held during December 12–15, 2019.

Professor Dhiman has done over 65 conference presentations and more than 60 invited keynotes, plenary sessions, distinguished key guest lectures, and creative workshops – nationally and internationally – and has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. He is author, translator, editor, co-author, and co-editor of more than 35 management, leadership, spirituality, and accounting related books and research monographs. His recent books include Bhagavad Gītā and Leadership: A Catalyst for Organizational Transformation (2019 – Palgrave Macmillan); Managing by the Bhagavad Gītā: Timeless Lessons for Today’s Managers (2018 – Springer; with Amar); Holistic Leadership (Palgrave 2017), Gandhi and Leadership (Palgrave 2015), Seven Habits of Highly Fulfilled People (2012); and co-editing and co-authoring, with Marques, Spirituality and Sustainability (Springer 2016), Leadership Today (Springer 2016), and Engaged Leadership (Springer, 2018); New Horizons in Positive Leadership and Change; and Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility (2020 – Springer). He has also translated several Indian spiritual classics into English, including the Sahaja Gītā.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of four multi-author Major Reference Works: Springer Handbook of Engaged Sustainability (2018 – Springer International, Switzerland) and Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment (2018 – Palgrave Macmillan, USA); Routledge Companion to Mindfulness at Work (2020); Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Well-Being (2020 – Palgrave Macmillan); Editor-in-Chief of Palgrave Studies in Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment; Routledge Frontiers in Sustainable Business; and lead editor of Springer Series in Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership. Some of his forthcoming titles include Routledge Companion to Leadership and Change; Leading without Power: A Model of Highly Fulfilled Leaders (2021 – Palgrave Macmillan); Conscious Consumption: Healthy, Humane and Sustainable Living (2021 – Routledge, UK); Wise Leadership for Turbulent Times (2021 – Routledge, UK); and New Horizons in Management, Leadership and Sustainability: Innovative Case Studies and Solutions for Emerging Economies (2020 – Springer; with Samaratunge).

Currently, Professor Dhiman serves as the Associate Dean, Chair, and Director of the MBA Program and as Professor of Management at Woodbury University, Burbank, California. He has served as the Chair for a special MBA Program for Mercedes-Benz executives, China. Professor Dhiman also serves as Accreditation Consultant, Evaluator, and Site Visit Team Leader for the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) for various universities in America, Canada, Europe, and Asia.

Professor Dhiman is the Founder-Director of Forever Fulfilled, a Los Angeles-based well-being consultancy that focuses on workplace wellness, workplace spirituality, and self-leadership. He has served as the President of International Chamber for Service Industry (ICSI: 2016–2018) and now serves as a distinguished Patron, International Chamber for Service Industry (ICSI).