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The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Well-Being

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Offers best practices in managing and leading the workforce
  • Highlights the moral and spiritual dimension of leadership
  • Addresses deeper questions of meaning, purpose and fulfillment in the workplace in a concrete and practical way

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Table of contents (55 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  2. Workplace Well-Being: Theory and Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Improving the Quality of Work Life: An Interdisciplinary Lens into the Worker Experience

      • Branka V. Olson, Carol McGuire, Angela Crawford
      Pages 33-64
    3. Efficient Diversity Management for Workplace Well-Being

      • Deniz Zaptcioglu Celikdemir, Alev Katrinli
      Pages 65-85
    4. Positive Psychological Well-Being at Work: The Role of Eudaimonia

      • Susan der Kinderen, Svetlana N. Khapova
      Pages 141-168
  3. Workplace Well-Being, Spirituality and Secular Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 413-413
    2. The Languages of Spirituality and Science: Two Fraternal Twins

      • Andrea Cherman, Francisco Eduardo Moreira Azeredo
      Pages 415-438

About this book

This handbook proposes to present best practices in managing and leading the 21st century workforce. It offers strategies and tools to cultivate well-being in the present day boundary-less work environment. Research shows that organizations with higher levels of employee engagement routinely out-perform those with lower employee engagement. This handbook provides valuable insights into why employee well-being is such a powerful driver of employee performance and engagement and what organizations can do to enhance workplace well-being and fulfillment. It brings the research on workplace well-being up-to-date while precisely mapping its terrain and extending the scope and boundaries of this field in an inclusive and egalitarian manner.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Woodbury University, Burbank, USA

    Satinder K. Dhiman

About the editor

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 Dhimanholds 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 Academyof 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).

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