Professor Sir Cary Cooper CBE given special membership award
22 Mar 2016
Human Resources' “most influential thinker” appointed first Honorary Member of UK Employee Assistance Professionals Association
Professor Sir Cary Cooper has been announced as first Honorary Member of the UK Employee Assistance Professionals Association (UK EAPA) at the 2016 Annual General Meeting.
UK EAPA is a not-for-profit organisation that represents the interests of individuals and organisations concerned with employee assistance, psychological health and wellbeing in the UK.
Andrew Kinder, Chair of the UK EAPA, said: “Professor Cooper has been a strong advocate for mental health awareness for many years, leading research and policy creation in this area, and working extensively to support campaigns to enhance wellbeing in the workplace. We are pleased to welcome him to the Association and make this special membership award and we look forward to working with him to raise the profile of employee assistance and wellbeing issues in the future.”
Professor Cooper is Alliance Manchester Business School’s 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, president of the CIPD and was recently named as HR’s most influential thinker.
He said: "I am very proud to have been honoured in this way. Mental ill health at work is costing UK companies billions so anything I can do to help through counselling and other employee support services, I will."
Special membership awards are made at the discretion of the UK EAPA Board and honour the work of nominees in the field of employee assistance and wellbeing.
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