Dying for a Paycheck

In this timely, provocative book, a Stanford business professor contends that many modern management practices are toxic to employeeshurting engagement, increasing turnover, and destroying their physical and emotional healthand to company performance, as he offers ways to build human sustainability at work.

You don't have to do a dangerous jobin coal mine or on a construction site, commercial fishing boat, or an oil rigto endure a health-destroying, possibly life-threatening, workplace. Just ask the manager in a senior finance role whose immense workload, once handled by several employees, required frequent all-nightersleading to alcohol and drug addiction. Or the dedicated news media producer whose commitment to getting the story resulted in a sixty-pound weight gain thanks to having no down time to eat properly or exercise. Or the marketing professional prescribed antidepressants a week after joining her employer.

These...