The Social Psychology of Organizations ─ Diagnosing toxicity and intervening in the workplace

Healthy and successful organizations require the people who work within them to be happy, resilient and creative. Just as a human body is undermined if it suffers from sickness, so an organization can only function fully if the people who work within it feel engagement and well-being, and any toxic influences which shape or burden their working lives are resolved

This important new title provides a much-needed overview not only of what it means for an organization to be weakened by pervasive psychological influences within the working environment, but also how this dysfunction can be addressed through psychological interventions.

The book is ideal reading for students and researchers of occupational or organizational psychology, organizational behaviour, HRM and business and management

Joanna Wilde is a visiting fellow at Warwick Business School and an industrial fellow at Aston Business School, both in the UK, Chair of the Work and Health working group of the British Psychology Society,, and a director of Nativate Organization Ltd.