DYING FOR A PAYCHECK
 
You don�t have to do a dangerous job to endure 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.
These individuals are not exceptions they are too often the norm. Every industry is filled with similar horror stories and the costs, to both employees and their companies, is enormous and worsening. In Dying for a Paycheck, Jeffrey Pfeffer exposes the infuriating truth about modern work life: even as organizations allow management practices that literally sicken and sometimes kill their employees, those policies do not enhance productivity or the bottom line. Instead, they diminish employee engagement, increase turnover, reduce job performance and drive up health costs.
Exploring a range of important topics, including layoffs, health insurance, work-family conflict, 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. 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.
 
About the Author
 
Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of fifteen books including Leadership BS, Power, the Human Equation, Managing with Power and the Knowing-Doing Gap. Pfeffer has led seminars in thirty-nine countries and for numerous U.S. companies, associations and universities. He has won numerous awards for his writing, has an honorary doctorate from Tilburg University in the Netherlands and is listed in the top 25 management thinkers by Thinkers 50.
 
Product details
ASIN : 0062873342
Publisher : HarperCollins
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780062873347
ISBN-13 : 978-0062873347
Item Weight : 295 g
Dimensions : 20 x 14 x 4 cm