WELL-BEING AND BEHAVIOUR IN HEALTHCARE ORGANISATIONS

Chapter 1 - Exploring well-being at work

Chapter 2 - Wellbeing and motivation in organisational behaviour

Chapter 3 - Leadership behaviours and employee well-being

Chapter 4 - Burnout among anesthesiologists and intensive care

Chapter 5 - Organisation-directed interventions to reduce physician burnout

Well-being and behaviour in healthcare organisations explores employee well-being, an interesting issue in organisational behaviour studies due to the crucial role that people play in the survival and development of organisations. Over the last decades, well-being in the workplace has received great attention from both managers and scholars and has increasingly become a common theme in mainstream organisational research.
A range of topics is covered here: organised frameworks on factors of well-being; motivation to work; leadership behaviours affecting employee well-being; impact of job demands and job resources; emotions at work; physician burnout and organisational interventions to reduce it. The topics covered are discussed in a theoretical and applied way, particularly in reference to the healthcare context, where service quality and efficiency are closely linked to the human
factor. The authors provide the basis of reflections on the importance of employee well-being in every working context, and on organisational interventions to promote it.

Stefania De Simone is Researcher of Organisational Studies at the Department of Political Science of University of Naples Federico II. PhD in Business Administration, University of Naples Federico II.

Massimo Franco is Full Professor of Management Studies and Human Resources Management and Vice Director of the Department of Political Science at University of Naples Federico II.

Giuseppe Servillo is Full Professor of Anesthesia at University of Naples Federico II and Director of Clinical Department of Anesthesia and Surgery of the University Hospital Federico II.

Maria Vargas is Associate Professor of Anesthesia at University of Naples Federico II