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AbstractMental health is an issue of increasing concern to both individuals and organizations in Canada. The articles presented in this special issue present several approaches to dealing with workplace mental issues and highlight the need for more research in this area. In particular there is a pressing need for evaluative research to, identify which strategies work to improve individual and organizational well‐being. © 2018 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Small and medium sized enterprises constitute the vast majority of businesses in most developed economies. Although a large number of people are employed in such organizations, research and practice in occupational health and safety has largely ignored the unique challenges of this sector. In this highly relevant book, international experts in the field summarize existing knowledge and identify the best practices for enhancing occupational health and safety in small and medium sized enterprises. The authors specifically identify solutions that are appropriate for small businesses. Covering a full range of topics from traditional safety to psychosocial health, this insightful book will appeal to multidisciplinary audience, including researchers and graduate students in occupational health psychology; academics in the area of small business; practicing occupational health psychologists; as well as small business owners.

AbstractConsiderable data has linked transformational leadership to employee well‐being, but little research has focused on how transformational leaders influence employee well‐being. In the current study, we examine whether transformational leaders engage in more recognition of employee efforts and whether that recognition is associated with enhanced well‐being. We further examined whether transformational leaders give employees recognition in a manner that increases the association between recognition and well‐being. With these two objectives, we test a moderated mediated model using survey data involving employees from a large health‐care organization. The results suggest that transformational leaders provide more recognition to individual employees. Moreover, recognition is more strongly related to well‐being when leaders are seen as transformational. Copyright © 2018 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

AbstractThe experiences of managers who continue to work through a labour stoppage is a largely overlooked question in industrial relations research and practice. Qualitative long interviews were conducted with managers who worked through a strike. A shared narrative for managers' strike experiences emerged. Managers perceived that their prestrike workplace was cooperative and characterized by positive labour‐management relationships. The strike was experienced as contentious and personalized with managers reporting that they and their families were targets of aggression from strikers. The managers envisioned a more formal poststrike workplace characterized by less collegial labour‐management interactions. We discuss the implications of these findings and call for further research on managers' experiences of industrial relations events. Copyright © 2014 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Research on workplace violence has proliferated in recent years. This handbook reflects and summarises the current state of knowledge and presents a comprehensive overview of current theory, research and organisational practice relating to workplace violence and aggression