ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2008, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (2): 321-327.

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Organizational Health: Concept, Features and Dimensions

Wang Xingqiong;Chen Weizheng   

  1. Business Management School in Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064,China
  • Received:2007-05-22 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2008-03-15 Published:2008-03-15
  • Contact: Chen Weizheng

Abstract: Because organizations are facing unprecedented challenges and intense pressure, organizational health which has long been neglected is being the concern and attention of academics and business people at home and abroad. The authors review and sort out the existing research results, define the concept of organizational health, sum up the characteristics of it, such as environmental adaptability, self-regulation, learning innovation, sustained growth and the coexistence of organizational, staffs’ and social health, and enumerate the types of dimension partition. At present, the study on organizational health is still in the exploratory stage, and the basic problems such as the connotation and dimensions of organizational health and its measurement are the premises of the further cause-and-effect research on organizational health, then reliable managemental proposals for promoting organizational health can be provided

Key words: organizational health, healthy organization, coexistence of organizational, staffs’ and social health

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