HEALTH PROTECTION AND PROMOTION IN THE WORKPLACE: A REVIEW AND APPLICATION OF VALUE AND REGULATORY FOCUS PERSPECTIVES

摘要

The literature on health protection and safety and that on health promotion inorganizations have developed independently. In addition to focusing on eitherhealth protection and safety or health promotion in the workplace, researchin these areas has differed in whether the organization's or the employee'sperspective has been the focus of investigation. The purpose of this chapteris to integrate these strands of research to better understand the relation ofhealth protection and promotion to an organization's and individual's safetyand health behaviors. Work values theory (Schwartz, 1994) and regulatoryfocus theory (Higgins, 1997) are used to develop a framework relating safetyand health to both values and regulatory focus.