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Workplace Health: Employee Fitness and Exercise »
Authors: Kerr, John Kerr, Kerr Kerr
ISBN-13: 9780748401437, ISBN-10: 0748401431
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: October 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Kerr
Book Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
| Contributors | ||
| Preface: promoting workplace health | ||
| 1 | Employee exercise programmes: organisational and individual perspectives | 1 |
| 2 | Financial aspects of employee fitness programmes | 29 |
| 3 | Assessing the relationship between exercise and employee mental health: methodological concerns | 55 |
| 4 | Exercise and mental health: the role of activity and fitness | 69 |
| 5 | The psychological benefits of physical exercise for women: improving employee quality of life | 83 |
| 6 | Exercise programmes and the promotion of health | 101 |
| 7 | Understanding exercise as a method of stress management: a constructivist framework | 117 |
| 8 | Exercise, shiftwork and sleep | 129 |
| 9 | Alcohol abuse, physical fitness and the prevention of relapse | 145 |
| 10 | Employee fitness programmes and reduced absenteeism: a case study | 159 |
| 11 | Employee fitness and exercise: the way forward | 169 |
| Author biographies | 183 | |
| Index | 187 |
Subjects
Business Books
Human Resources Employees - Health & Safety
Health Books, Diet & Fitness Books Exercise & Fitness Exercise - General
Human Resources Employees - Health & SafetyHealth Books, Diet & Fitness Books
Exercise & Fitness Exercise - General