Bringing together contributors from a wide range of disciplines, countries and perspectives this book provides a thought-provoking overview of the human dimension of the workplace. It covers workplace problems as well as potential solutions. Essential reading for anyone committed to making the workplace a humane and effective place.

SETH ALLCORN, PhD is the Vice President for Business and Finance for the University of New England. Dr Allcorn has over twenty years of experience working with physicians, hospitals and academic medical centres. He has served as Associate and Assistant Dean for three schools of medicine and as a medicine department administrator at a fourth. He has worked for twenty-five years as a part-time and full-time organizational consulting specializing in the management of change, strategic planning and organizational restructuring. He is the author or co-author of twelve books and over sixty papers that have appeared in scholarly and practitioner journals. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. GIORGOS BITHYMITRIS is a PhD candidate in social policy at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. His main research interests concern the political sociology of trade union movements, labour history and organized interests in contemporary Greece. JOHN BOTTOMLEY is Director of Creative Ministries Network, an agency of the Uniting Church in Australia. After a congregational ministry in Melbourne's outer suburbs, his experience as a researcher for the union Shop Committee in a ship-building yard galvanized his interest in workplace issues. This interest has developed into a concern for addressing the trauma caused by the deep-seated violence in the way work is shaped by and shapes both our free-market economy and our political system of government. John seeks to integrate the arts and faith with a commitment to personal and social transformation for healing, justice and reconciliation. SUKI DESAI currently works as a senior lecturer at the University of Hull. She has experience of working in multidisciplinary mental health settings including hospital, community-based teams and the voluntary sector. Suki has also previously worked as regional director for the Mental Health Act Commission and has sat on Mental Health Review Tribunals as a lay member. PETER GILBERT is Professor of Social Work and Spirituality, Staffordshire University, NIMHE Project Lead on Spirituality, and Visiting Professor with both Birmingham and Solihull NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Worcester. Peter is keen to ensure the integration of theory with practice. He has co-authored a training pack on Supervision and Leadership with Neil Thompson, and is the author of Leadership: Being Effective and Remaining Human (2005) and 'The Value of Everything (2003). Peter and his co-editors published: Spirituality, Values and Mental Health, in 2007. He is currently working on a position paper for the Social Care Institute for Excellence on leadership. BRIAN HEATH is principal lecturer in occupational and public health at Glynd?r University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, for whom he is also a registered tutor and examiner. In addition to lecturing, Brian has consulted extensively in a range of industries, including aerospace, construction, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, process manufacturing, health care and engineering The focus of this work has been on health and welfare in the workplace and on health protection systems. VASILLIS IOAKIMIDIS PhD is a lecturer in social work at Liverpool Hope University. His main research interests include international social work, history of Greek social welfare and radical approaches in social work theory and practice. Vasillis actively participates in the Social Work Action Network, a radical social work movement that opposes managerialism and promotes social work theory and practice based on social justice. IOLO MADOCJONES began his working life as a probation officer in the North West of England, working with a diverse client group, many of whom had problems in relation to alcohol and drug misuse. He then moved into academia and is currently principal lecturer in criminal justice at Glynd?r University in North Wales. He has publis

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