This panel session, scheduled for the SIOP Annual Conference on April 19, 2024, explores the concept of "home-like workplaces" and its implications for employee well-being, work-life balance, and organizational practices. The session brings together experts to discuss the benefits and potential drawbacks of blurring the lines between work and home environments.
Key points of discussion:
The definition and characteristics of home-like workplaces, which offer benefits, amenities, and designs that blur the distinction between work and non-work domains. The dilemma posed by home-...
This chapter presents an updated framework for Integral Organizational Wellness (IOW), expanding on previous versions to address complex workplace pressures and new stressors.
Key components of the framework include: Eleven themes of organizational well-being, categorized into Assessment, Awareness, Action, Applications, and Attractive State Competencies for Occupational Health Psychologists (OHPs) related to each theme Roles and competencies of internal well-being practitioners and allies Potential business partners and their impact on organizational wellness The influence of...
The present study explores psychosocial needs among university employees and the extent to which these needs influence employee perceptions of how work positively or negatively affects their health. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses among Norwegian faculty members (N = 11,533) suggest that needs differ in importance to the two work-related health outcomes. Multi-group analyses suggest gender differences in the level of these needs and in their degree of relationship with positive/negative work-related health. Among women, the strongest predictors of positive and negative work-...
This white paper proposes a new paradigm for business success: becoming a 'healthcare business'. It argues that prioritizing employee health, safety, and well-being is not just beneficial but essential for overall business success.
Key points:
The current business landscape is marked by low employee engagement, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment, leading to numerous people-related problems and unnecessary costs. A 'healthcare business' is characterized by organizational policies, practices, and working conditions that promote employee health and...
This white paper explores the concept of "quiet quitting" and its implications for the modern workplace. It argues that quiet quitting is fundamentally about a loss of intrinsic motivation rather than laziness or minimal effort.
Key points:
Quiet quitting is related to disengagement, stemming from a lack of appropriate resources and support in the face of work demands. The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped worker expectations, particularly regarding work-time control and work-life balance. There's a disconnect between organizational leaders' desire to return to pre...
As an interdisciplinary team, HealthyWorkplaces reaches out to collaborators to better understand how the variety of disciplines can come together to improve the workplace. This month, biomedical engineer Elizabeth Nelson of University of Twente provided her input about lack of sleep causing burnout in an ever increasing number of employees. Further, architect Antony Kim of University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Built Environment shared his knowledge about circadian rhythms and their regulation with proper lighting. We explore how the lighting architecture and biology of...
HealthyWorkplaces has identified those psychological states which, if stimulated by the work environment, either directly or indirectly, promote physical health and psychological well-being, resulting in energized and engaged workers who love what they do and who contribute to organizational effectiveness accordingly. We described the HealthyWorkplaces...
HealthyWorkplaces is helping to spearhead the paradigm shift from single variable models of wellness toward an interdisciplinary model of well-being that gives prominence to the physical and psychological states that correlate with and give rise to the development and sustainability of worker health and well-being. As a think tank, with a mission to do and apply interdisciplinary research, HealthyWorkplaces seeks to re-conceptualize worker health and well-being. We seek to understand worker health and well-being less as a single variable associated exclusively with physiological indices of...
This paper presents a brief summary of major findings regarding employee health and well-being based on the scientific literature, including current and emerging approaches to preventing illness and injury in organizations, promoting health and well-being in the workplace, and mitigating health problems through organizational programs. I also offer suggestions for new approaches to research on employee health and well-being in order to significantly improve our chances of turning the corner on the growing health crisis. But first, let me describe the size of the problem we are facing.
Most of what is taught in business schools and executive development programs, though certainly relevant, does not contribute significantly to the creation of workplaces that enable human beings to flourish and engage meaningfully in the success of their organizations.
With the massive and endlessly growing provision of advice and guidance and education on how to run successful and/or effective organizations, the question remains: “Why haven’t we become better at it”? With so many companies struggling to survive, let alone thrive, in the always on, 24/7, inter-connected world we...
