Achieving Sustainable Workplace Wellbeing: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space (Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being)

In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, the authors focus on organizational analysis to understand workplace wellbeing, deviating from previous research that mostly looks at the individual worker or intervention. In addressing the question of why workplace health and wellbeing practices initiatives fall short of delivering sustained improvements in worker wellbeing, this book moves beyond localized explanations of the failure of specific interventions. Instead, it creates theoretical frameworks that explain how wellbeing at work can be improved and sustained. The authors use evidence from systematic and comprehensive surveys of the literature as well as new empirical research, and present an explanatory framework of the processes through which organizations change to implement and accommodate workplace health and wellbeing practices. Learning, adaptation and continuation explain successful implementation of workplace health and wellbeing practices, while Gestalting, fracturing and grafting explain how organizations resolve or negotiate conflict between health and wellbeing practices and existing organizational procedures, systems and practices. In addition, the authors reflect on the implications for research of reframing the unit of analysis as the organization and how studies on workplace wellbeing practices can provide a conceptual platform for thinking about the way organizations can create social value in a broader sense. This book, authored by experts in their field, is a great resource for academics and professionals of organizational studies and of worker wellbeing across the social sciences, behavioural sciences, business and management courses, wellbeing research, and labour studies. Preface Acknowledgements Contents About the Authors Chapter 1: Introduction Wellbeing What Works and Why It Works Primary Prevention Through Work Redesign Primary Prevention Through Health Promotion Secondary Interventions Tertiary Interventions Multicomponent Interventions Implementation and a New Model References Chapter 2: Conceptual Models of Intervention Implementation Frameworks to Guide Researchers Frameworks to Guide Practice Prior Systematic Reviews Categorizing Existing Frameworks and the Case for an Alternative Approach References Chapter 3: Tangible Changes and Activated Mechanisms No Effects: Implementation No Effects: Context Effects as Planned Beneficial Effects Not as Planned Adverse Effects Conclusions References Chapter 4: Competing Logics What Are the Competing Logics? Evidence for Wellbeing Logics Management of Competing Logics Conclusions References Chapter 5: Actors and Implementation Actors The Delivery Context Political and Symbolic Functions of the Delivery Context Involving Others: Consultation and Coercion Symbolism and Culture Conclusions References Chapter 6: Making Things Work: Learning, Adaptation and Continuation Learning Structures Continuation Conclusions References Chapter 7: Putting the Workplace Back into Workplace Wellbeing Grafting Fracturing Gestalting Conclusions References Chapter 8: Synergies, Capability and Authenticity Synergies Learning and Developing Implementation Capabilities Undermining Health and Wellbeing Activities Summary and Conclusions References Chapter 9: Conclusions and Extensions Implications for Research Methodologies Extensions: Implications for Other Areas of Enquiry Overall Conclusions References Technical Appendix Systematic Review of Intervention Studies and Review of Reviews Qualitative Case Studies Recruitment and Sample Data Collection Data Analysis It has become highly desirable to provide users with flexible ways to query/search information over databases as simple as keyword search like Google search. This book surveys the recent developments on keyword search over databases, and focuses on finding structural information among objects in a database using a set of keywords. Such structural information to be returned can be either trees or subgraphs representing how the objects, that contain the required keywords, are interconnected in a relational database or in an XML database. The structural keyword search is completely different from finding documents that contain all the user-given keywords. The former focuses on the interconnected object structures, whereas the latter focuses on the object content. The book is organized as follows. In Chapter 1, we highlight the main research issues on the structural keyword search in different contexts. In Chapter 2, we focus on supporting structural keyword search in a relational database management system using the SQL query language. We concentrate on how to generate a set of SQL queries that can find all the structural information among records in a relational database completely, and how to evaluate the generated set of SQL queries efficiently. In Chapter 3,we discuss graph algorithms for structural keyword search by treating an entire relational database as a large data graph. In Chapter 4, we discuss structural keyword search in a large tree-structuredXMLdatabase. In Chapter 5,we highlight several interesting research issues regarding keyword search on databases. The book can be used as either an extended survey for people who are interested in the structural keyword search or a reference book for a postgraduate course on the related topics.