New: Westermayer, G. & Stein, B. A. Company Health as a factor which influences productivity Language: german Reihe: Organisation und Medizin 2006, 247 S. 29,95 Euro / 48,90 sFr ISBN: 3-8017-1766-6

Although 2004 recorded the lowest levels ever of illness in Germany there are few signs that this trend is linked to improvements of employees' health. Clearly changes in both society and the economy have lead to the phenomenom of "presenteeism" discussed for a long time in the US. Staff go to work when they are ill or sickly out of fear that they may be placing their job in jeopardy. This development is associated with new forms of stress: "controlled autonomy" is represented in the book as a danger to health which is difficult to measure and diagnose with conventional tools but which puts many dependent employees in a state of permanent stress. This book demonstrates methods of company health management with which both new and old forms of dangers to health can be prevented. In addition it describes how the health-preventing potentials of modern everyday life can be used to reduce absenteeism and maintain and improve the sense of well-being felt by staff members. Thus there are new options to sustainably promote employees' health in line with the economic health of the organisation.