Employee Performance and Well-being : Leadership, Justice, Support, and Workplace Spirituality

This book provides recent inputs from the field of organizational behavior (OB) for enhancing employee performance and well-being, a key concern for managers today. It focuses on transformational leadership, organizational justice, organizational support, and workplace spirituality. The author outlines multiple dimensions of employee performance and five forms of employee well-being – physical, emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual. The book also presents an overview of the traditional approaches, and draws on relevant literature and empirical findings. It offers exercises from a practitioner’s point of view to facilitate managerial actions and will serve as a practical application guide for managers. This book will be of interest and use to students and researchers of human resource management, organizational behavior, management education, industrial and organizational psychology, corporate social responsibility and business ethics, as well as practicing HR managers and training managers. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 List of figures 10 Preface 11 Acknowledgments 14 Introduction 16 1 Employee performance: An organization’s requirement from employees 19 2 Employee well-being: Employees’ expectations from an organization 39 3 Employee performance and employee well-being: Two desired outcomes for an organization 62 4 Traditional approaches to enhancing employee performance and well-being 73 5 Transformational leadership for employee performance and well-being 85 6 Organizational justice for employee performance and well-being 112 7 Organizational support for employee performance and well-being 154 8 Workplace spirituality for employee performance and well-being 166 9 Reflections on implementation of leadership, justice, support, and workplace spirituality: Enhancing employee performance and well-being 184 Index 197