Creating a healthy company by occupational health promotion as a part of social responsibility
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide a new non-technological innovation concerning management processes in organization, focussing on occupational health promotion as a part of social responsibility (SR). Employer’s occupational health promotion includes systemic and systematic activities for good employees’ social, physical and mental health; synergy is suggested.
Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative analysis using SR, dialectical systems theory and human resource management is applied.
Findings
A healthy company can be built by occupational health promotion, which must take place socially responsibly and requisitely holistically.
Research limitations/implications
Qualitative analysis is applied in desk and field research on Slovenia.
Practical implications
The novel socially responsible, requisitely holistic approach to managing employee’s health, exposing personal and corporate SR prevents oversights and resulting failures.
Originality/value
Available literature offers no similar concept.
Keywords
Citation
Šarotar Žižek, S. and Mulej, M. (2016), "Creating a healthy company by occupational health promotion as a part of social responsibility", Kybernetes, Vol. 45 No. 2, pp. 223-243. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-02-2015-0051
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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