2022 WAW: Healthy Workplaces as a Pathway Through Hectic Times

2022 Wellbeing at Work Conference Symposium: Wellbeing in Hectic Times

(Learn more about the conference here) (Read the Symposium Proposal here)

Topic: Healthy Workplaces as a Pathway Through Hectic Times (Cristina Banks, Christina Maslach)

1. Opening Remarks
2. New Groundwork
3. The Framework
4. Why the need for an interdisciplinary approach to health, well-being, and productivity?

Important Organizational Features for Health, Well-Being and Productivity (Siw Tone Innstrand, Ragnhild Wiik, Marit Christensen, Cristina Banks & Christina Maslach)

1. Health and work cycle
2. What creates a healthy workplace?
3. Description of the study conducted in two countries, Norway and the US, in which a new instrument, The Healthy Workplace Index (HWI), was developed

The Physical Environment’s Role in Healthy Workplaces (Sally Augustin)

1. Pre-pandemic trends and objectives remain today
2. Physical work environments can boost both cognitive performance and health (mental and physical) simultaneously

Antidotes to the Great Resignation (Cristina Banks, Alan Witt)

1. Factors underlying the “Great Resignation”
2. Problem 1: B-School Approach
3. Problem 2: Provider Attitudes
4. Problem 3: User Awareness
5. Solution: Place Rights

The Burnout Challenge (Christina Maslach, Michael Leiter)

1. The common response to job burnout
2. "Who" is getting burnt out? - Better to ask "Why" are workers burning out?
3. The person and the situational environment
4. Job-person mismatch
5. Six paths to a healthy workplace