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AB - fpsyg-08-01938 November 10, 2017 Time: 15:11 # 1 PERSPECTIVE published: 14 November 2017 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01938 Positive Healthy Organizations: Promoting Well-Being, Meaningfulness, and Sustainability in Organizations Annamaria Di Fabio* Department of Education and Psychology, Psychology Section, University of Florence, Florence, Italy This contribution deals with the concept of healthy organizations and starts with a definition of healthy organizations and healthy business. In healthy organizations, culture, climate, and practices create an environment conducive to employee health and safety as well as organizational effectiveness (Lowe, 2010). A healthy organization thus leads to a healthy and successful business (De Smet et al., 2007; Grawitch and Ballard, 2016), underlining the strong link between organizational profitability and workers’ well-being. Starting from a positive perspective focused on success and excellence, the contribution describes how positive organizational health psychology evolved from occupational health psychology to positive occupational health psychology stressing the importance of a primary preventive approach. The focus is not on deficiency and failure but on a positive organizational attitude that proposes interventions at different levels: individual, group, organization, and inter-organization. Healthy organizations need to Edited by: Margaret M. Hopkins, find the right balance between their particular situation, sector, and culture, highlighting University of Toledo, United 
TI - Positive Healthy Organizations: Promoting Well-Being, Meaningfulness, and Sustainability in Organizations
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01938
DA - 2017-11-14
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/positive-healthy-organizations-promoting-well-being-meaningfulness-and-98Nan7Mt1L
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