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Creating a healthy company by occupational health promotion as a part of social responsibility

Simona Šarotar Žižek (Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia)
Matjaž Mulej (Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia)

Kybernetes

ISSN: 0368-492X

Article publication date: 1 February 2016

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to provide a new non-technological innovation concerning management processes in organization, focussing on occupational health promotion as a part of social responsibility (SR). Employer’s occupational health promotion includes systemic and systematic activities for good employees’ social, physical and mental health; synergy is suggested.

Design/methodology/approach

A qualitative analysis using SR, dialectical systems theory and human resource management is applied.

Findings

A healthy company can be built by occupational health promotion, which must take place socially responsibly and requisitely holistically.

Research limitations/implications

Qualitative analysis is applied in desk and field research on Slovenia.

Practical implications

The novel socially responsible, requisitely holistic approach to managing employee’s health, exposing personal and corporate SR prevents oversights and resulting failures.

Originality/value

Available literature offers no similar concept.

Keywords

Citation

Šarotar Žižek, S. and Mulej, M. (2016), "Creating a healthy company by occupational health promotion as a part of social responsibility", Kybernetes, Vol. 45 No. 2, pp. 223-243. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-02-2015-0051

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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