Exploring and Conceptualizing ”Healthy Organizations”

The interests of employees and shareholders are often at odds, yet they are allied by the fundamental fact that they are sharing the same ‘pie.' The paramount questions are therefore twofold: (1) Are company profitability and shareholder financial success compatible with good compensation for employees, safe workplaces and other indicators of employee well being? (2) What organizational practices, if any, are associated with the coincidence of both employee and shareholder well being? Our preliminary investigation leads to the tentative conclusion that healthy companies share certain organizational features, e.g., their comparatively greater reliance on innovative human resource management practices and the relatively good match between their human resource systems and their technological circumstances.

Bio: Fanmin Kong is Associate Professor of Human Resources and Industrial Relations at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University . He has also been serving as Director of Corporate Culture Research Institute at the School since 2004. He earned his Ph.D. in Human Resources & Industrial Relations from Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota .

Dr. Kong' research interests include strategic human resource management, organization theory, employment relations, corporate culture, and experimental economics. His research has been accepted for publication in journals such as Nordic Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, and Industrial & Labor Relations Review. Dr. Kong also participates NSF projects as Principal Investigator in China .

Dr. Kong currently teaches courses in Organization Theory, Human Resource Management, Employee Training and Development, Compensation, and Research Method for HRIR to doctoral, master, and undergraduate students. Dr. Kong is a member of the American Economists Association, the Industrial Relation Research Association, and a founding member of the International Association of Chinese Management Research.