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Employee Well-being (Why worry about employee well-being? (Increased…
Employee Well-being
Why worry about employee well-being?
Increased retention rates
Better able to attract quality candidates
Improved productivity, quality of work, and overall morale and culture of the organization
More likely to avoid high costs associated with absenteeism, presenteeism, injury and illness
Work-family conflict?
Time
When time used in performing one role minimises an individual’s ability to perform the other role
Strain
When behaviours required of one
role are incompatible with
behavioural expectations of the
other role
Behaviour
When stressors in one role drains an vindividual’s mental/physical energy to perform the other role
The intersection of work and family/life results in three main outcomes:
Enrichment
The extent to which experiences in one role (e.g. work) improve the quality of life in the other role” (e.g. family)
Balance
The individual’s perception that work
and non-work activities are compatible and
promote growth in accordance with an individual’s current life priorities
Conflict
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a form of inter-role conflict in which the role pressures from the work and family domains are mutually incompatible in some respect
A measure of a person's happiness, psychological, emotional and mental state.
Strongly linked to how satisfied a person feels about both themselves and their life
In the 21st century
factors challenging employee well-being
Increasing work intensity, load, and hours, especially among professionals
Lack of job security
Advances in technology
Rise in dual-income/career families
Ageing population (i.e. elderly
dependents)
Stagnant gender norms pertaining to
work and non-work domains
What leads to employee well-being?
An outcome of the intersection of an employee’s work and family/life
Family
Persons related by biological ties, marriage, social custom, or adoption
Life
All activities and relationships that belong to work, family, and any other domain of one’s existence
Work
Any instrumental activity intended to provide goods and services to support life