Workplace Well-being: How to Build Psychologically Healthy Workplaces

About the Editors

Arla Day, Saint Mary’s UniversityArla Day is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology at Saint Mary’s University and a fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. Dr Day is a founding member of two research and community outreach centers: the CN Centre for Occupational Health and Safety and the Centre for Leadership Excellence. She conducts research in psychologically healthy workplaces and has helped promote healthy workplaces through her work as chair of the Nova Scotia Psychologically Healthy Workplace Program and as steering committee member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Center for Organizational Excellence. She is an associate editor at the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Her research focuses on developing healthy employees and healthy organizations, in terms of creating and assessing interventions aimed at improving working conditions, psychological and physical health, and work and life balance.

Joseph J. Hurrell Jr., Saint Mary’s UniversityJoseph J. Hurrell Jr. is an adjunct Professor of Psychology at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and an affiliate of the Canadian National Center for Occupational Health and Safety. He is the current editor of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (which he cofounded) and holds Bachelor’s and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Psychology from Miami University and a Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Xavier University. ...