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Building Blocks for Mental Health: How Do I Best Manage My Team?

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Abstract

This chapter offers building blocks for the promotion of mental health at work and suggestions on how to recruit, deploy, and manage employees to minimize the contribution that your own style, history, workplace, and team make to known stressors. The reflection suggests an approach to get to know your colleagues better.

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Quelch, J.A., Knoop, CI. (2018). Building Blocks for Mental Health: How Do I Best Manage My Team?. In: Compassionate Management of Mental Health in the Modern Workplace. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71541-4_7

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