Doing Well by Doing Good

Abstract

Abstract Focusing on the health and wellbeing of its employees is both morally the right thing for an organization to do and strategically sound because it has positive implications in terms of motivation and productivity. This chapter draws on four varied examples of commitment to the wellbeing of employees, members of the community, and supporting others. The first example looks at an innovative health and wellbeing intervention to support the mental health of front-line police staff. The second example looks at how executive search firms during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 took positive steps to navigate their precarious economic circumstances. The third example shows the paradoxical lessons of compassion that can be taken from tattoo-faced warriors and headhunters from the principal kingdoms of Nagaland. The final example looks at the influence of Daoist nothingness, and in particular letting go and empowering others, among Chinese leaders in small and medium sized enterprises in the rapidly growing logistics sector in Shanghai.