In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 excess deaths each year. In China, 1 million people a year may be dying from overwork. People are literally dying for a paycheck. And it needs to stop.
In this timely, provocative book, Jeffrey Pfeffer contends that many modern management commonalities such as long work hours, work-family conflict, and economic insecurity are toxic to employees—hurting engagement, increasing turnover, and destroying people’s physical and emotional health—and also inimical to company performance. He argues that human sustainability should be as important as environmental stewardship.
You don’t have to do a physically dangerous job to confront a health-destroying, possibly life-threatening, workplace. Just ask the manager in a senior finance role whose immense workload, once handled by several employees, required frequent all-nighters—leading to alcohol and drug addiction. Or the dedicated news media producer whose commitment to getting the story resulted in a sixty-pound weight gain thanks to having no down time to eat properly or exercise. Or the marketing professional prescribed antidepressants a week after joining her employer.
In Dying for a Paycheck, Jeffrey Pfeffer marshals a vast trove of evidence and numerous examples from all over the world to expose the infuriating truth about modern work life: even as organizations allow management practices that literally sicken and kill their employees, those policies do not enhance productivity or the bottom line, thereby creating a lose-lose situation.
Exploring a range of important topics including layoffs, health insurance, work-family conflict, work hours, job autonomy, and why people remain in toxic environments, Pfeffer offers guidance and practical solutions all of us—employees, employers, and the government—can use to enhance workplace wellbeing. We must wake up to the dangers and enormous costs of today’s workplace, Pfeffer argues. Dying for a Paycheck is a clarion call for a social movement focused on human sustainability. Pfeffer makes clear that the environment we work in is just as important as the one we live in, and with this urgent book, he opens our eyes and shows how we can make our workplaces healthier and better.
1 有用 潘允嫒 2018-10-14 11:01:55
菲佛教授说:“在一个反常的扭曲中,超时工作已成为一种身份象征——它表明了一个人是非常重要的,是不可或缺的……同样,人们想要为工作投入更多的时间以显示他们的价值。”
0 有用 cswnod 2018-08-16 00:11:17
读了个分章节英文概括材料,mark一下,有明确目标再读全文了
0 有用 苏菲苏菲 2020-07-09 11:16:09
一个劲儿地说工作相关的压力损害员工的身心健康,company leaders应该怎么怎么样做以保护员工、保护profit。不适用普通人。
0 有用 苏菲苏菲 2020-07-09 11:16:09
一个劲儿地说工作相关的压力损害员工的身心健康,company leaders应该怎么怎么样做以保护员工、保护profit。不适用普通人。
1 有用 潘允嫒 2018-10-14 11:01:55
菲佛教授说:“在一个反常的扭曲中,超时工作已成为一种身份象征——它表明了一个人是非常重要的,是不可或缺的……同样,人们想要为工作投入更多的时间以显示他们的价值。”
0 有用 cswnod 2018-08-16 00:11:17
读了个分章节英文概括材料,mark一下,有明确目标再读全文了