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Mental Health Awareness | Business & Management Textbooks
In today's fast-paced business environment, recognizing the importance of mental health is key to achieving success. The profound connection between mental well-being and successful business management cannot be overstated. Through the insightful content offered by Sage's textbooks, readers are provided with a holistic view of how spirituality, effective communication, entrepreneurial self-care, digital well-being, and work-life balance play integral roles in nurturing ourselves and a healthy working environment.
Sage proudly offers complimentary access to a selection of this textbook content, each piece underlining the vital connection between mental well-being and successful business management.
Spirituality in the workplace
Business Ethics by Sunil Savur
At the forefront of this title lies an exploration of spirituality within the workplace—a subject gaining significant traction among prominent organizations globally. In the featured extract, "what are tech giants doing in the realm of spirituality in the workplace?", Savur delves into a captivating inquiry into the integration of spirituality within professional environments.
Through meticulous examination, Savur uncovers the evolving role of spirituality in fostering employee well-being and organizational culture. By focusing on tech giants, the case offers unique insights into how innovative companies are embracing spiritual principles to enhance productivity and foster a sense of purpose among employees.
Research into Screen Time and Social Media Use for Event Professionals
Managing Events: Real Challenges, Real Outcomes by Liz Quick
This sample, taken from Liz Quick’s Managing Events: Real Challenges, Real Outcomes, presents a compelling study into screen time and social media use among event professionals. It explores the mental health implications of prolonged digital engagement, combining quantitative data with qualitative insights to reveal how screen habits affect wellbeing, productivity, and professional identity. The research includes global survey findings and real-world commentary from industry experts.
Workplace Bullying
Leadership: A Reflective and Student-Focused Approach by Andrei Lux
In Leadership: A Reflective and Student-Focused Approach, Andrei Lux explores how bullying manifests in professional environments, its impact on mental health, and the role of leadership in fostering psychologically safe workplaces. The above free sample on workplace bullying is designed to provoke thought and encourage reflection on how business leaders can actively support mental wellbeing.
Work-life balance and ‘techno-stress’
Digital Business by AnnMarie Hanlon
Work-life balance is pivotal in maintaining positive employee mental health. Digital Business by AnnMarie Hanlon explores perspectives on leveraging technology to boost workplace efficiency and enhance working conditions. She highlights how digital innovations are instrumental in supporting employees, and creating opportunities for more personalized and adaptive work environments.
However, Hanlon doesn't shy away from addressing the difficulties, such as maintaining a healthy work-life balance and the phenomenon of technostress, that complicate this digital transition. With a fine blend of analytical rigor and comprehensive understanding, she explores the nuances of finding a balance in a hybrid work setting. This analysis is pivotal in understanding both the possibilities and pitfalls of the digital workplace, offering crucial insights for both individuals navigating these changes and organizations striving to optimize the benefits of digital tools while minimizing the downsides.
Defining Wellbeing
An Introduction to Human Resource Management by Nick Wilton
Nick Wilton’s An Introduction to Human Resource Management explores the evolving concept of employee wellbeing in the workplace. It defines wellbeing as a multi-dimensional construct encompassing physical, mental, emotional, and organizational factors, and outlines how HR practices can support healthier, more productive work environments. The content also includes a practical case study that highlights the real-world challenges of managing wellbeing in high-pressure settings.
Dove's 'Cost of Beauty' Campaign: Planning for Good
Marketing Communications for the Digital Age by Tracy L. Tuten
Explore how purpose-driven marketing can drive both social impact and commercial value. Toxic beauty content was harming three in five children, and so Dove realised they needed to be more interventionist. In this case study, Tracy Tuten unpacks the campaign, which achieved massive reach and gathered 50,000 petition signatures in support of the Kids Online Safety Act.
Ethical Spotlight: Challenging Work - Social Media Moderation
Organizational Leadership, edited by John Bratton
On page 51, George Boak and Kelly Rogers discuss a lawsuit by social media moderators against their employers after multiple post-traumatic stress disorder diagnoses, allegedly from reviewing graphic content in challenging working conditions. Read the spotlight, stop and reflect, and explore additional sources and further reading.
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