Healthy Organisations

What can organisations do to help employees work healthily and effectively? It is about more than managing illness and absenteeism. Healthy organisations, for example, actively address the tendency to make working hours, locations, and - forms more flexible; they meet the demands to make organisations (even) more efficient with care and look for viable solutions in dealing with diverse, sometimes contradictory expectations of supervisors and employees. For this, they have to take three perspectives into account:

• Organisational perspektive
  Providing flexibility and space that make the demands manageable
  Prudent and realistic resource planning
  Designing goals that allow sufficient flexibility and are well aligned with everyday tasks
  Creating working conditions that meet the needs of the organisation and those of the employees
  Creating appropriate space for rest and recreation

• Social perspective
  Establish space and processes for dialogue and reflection, to build and maintain sustainable working relationships
  Shape cooperation to create a climate of psychological safety that allows for questions, ideas and doubts
  Encourage social support in the organisation

• Individual perspective
  Supporting all hierarchical levels in paying attention to their own health
  Maintaining and strengthening the individual resources of employees

These perspectives are connected through daily leadership and cooperation practice. If they receive sufficient attention there, essential foundations have been laid for the development of a healthy organisation.

Wir können Sie unter anderem mit folgenden Angeboten unterstützen:

• We conduct diagnostic workshops with decision-makers and management teams to develop a suitable approach to the topic of "healthy organisation" for you.
• We support you in analysing working conditions, stresses and resources and develop suitable measures with you.
• We support you in their implementation.
• We advise you on the connection of health promotion activities with other corporate activities and instruments.

Marc Wülser

Wülser Inversini Organisationsberatung GmbH

«My gaze is open like a sunflower...
I have the habit of wandering along the streets,
looking to the right and to the left,
And sometimes back...» (Alberto Caeiro)

Curiosity guides me in my work with individuals, teams, and organisations. In every mandate there are stories, convictions, but also uncertainties. These need to be explored and considered in development processes. In the process, diverse patterns and different assessments often emerge: should we do this or that, continue as before or head for new shores, do we go step by step or take the big leap? Individual wishes and needs, dynamics in teams as well as environments, and goals of the organisation must be aligned. This rarely works without contradictions, which is completely normal. I see it as an important aspect of my consulting work to highlight the associated differences and to make them useful for clients. I like to work in a concept-oriented way, but without prescriptions and always remaining focused on the specific concerns of the clients.

Professional background

• Co-owner of Wülser Inversini Organisationsberatung (since 2011)
• Partner in the Institut für Arbeitsforschung und Organisationsberatung in Zurich (2009–2011)
• Organisational consultant and project manager at the Institut für Arbeitsforschung und Organisationsberatung in Zurich (2001–2009)
• Various teaching posts, including at the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz and the University of Luzerne (since 1999)
• Scientific assistant at the Stiftung Arbeitsforschung in Zurich (2004–2007)
• Assistant researcher and lecturer with the Lehrstuhl für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie at the University of Berne (1998–2001)
• Machine draughtsman and builder at Sulzer in Zuchwil and Bystronic Maschinen AG in Bützberg (1986–1994)

Educational background

• Regular further training courses in seminars, specialist coaching, supervision and learning groups
• PhD in Psychology, thesis in Strain and Burnout in human service work, supervised by Prof. Eberhard Ulich at the University of Potsdam (2006)
• Studies in industrial and organisational psychology and economics at the University of Berne (2001)
• Apprenticeship as a machine draughtsman (1986)

Clientèle

• Public administration and administration-related organisations
• Social and health care organisations
• Associations and foundations
• Profit and non-profit sector

Main areas of research

Occupational health management, health-promoting organisational and work design, burnout prevention