This article introduces a green company as a theory about an integrated view
Contribution/ OriginalityThis study originates a new structure to improve the level of organizational health. In this paper, an integrated framework is introduced, which is called a green company. It is used to increase psychological health, social health and physical health of both individuals and groups to raise the level of general and public health in organizations.
This article introduces a green company as a theory about an integrated view of organizational health. It can deeply affect employees' well-being, their efficiency and effectiveness. It is focused on three main areas of mental and emotional health, social health and physical health to improve public and general organizational health. It makes a positive framework to add values to the organization of caring about both individuals' and groups' health. It surely has effects on staff's satisfaction. As the first area, the mental and emotional health is discussed with focusing on three main views of matching organizational environments to home, matching organizational environment to nature and using anti-stress tools. In the second area, the social and cultural health is discussed and three views of improving the level of social activities, people's informal and formal networks and cultural phenomena are mentioned. At last, in the third area, physical health with subjects of ergonomics, exercise and physical safety of staff is described. These three areas are complementary to each other to create the green healthy company.
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