Dying For A Paycheck : How Modern Management Harms Employee Health & Company Performance - Softcover

Jeffrey Pfeffe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062873342 ISBN 13: 9780062873347

Publisher: Harper Collins India, 2018

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Collins India
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0062873342
• ISBN 13: 9780062873347
• Binding: Paperback