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WEEK 10 - Coggle Diagram
WEEK 10
What is it Employee Wellbeing?
A measure of a person’s happiness, psychological, emotional and mental state (strongly link to how they feel abt themselves and life in general)
Why should organisations worry about employee well-being?
Improved productivity, quality of work, and overall moral
Increased retention sales
Better able to attract quality candidates
More likely to avoid high costs associated with absenteeism, presenteeism (ga di mention), injury and illness
What leads to employee well-being
Research indicates employee well-being to be an outcome of the intersection of an employee’s work and family/life
Where does work & family life begin or end
Work life include any instrumental activity intended to provide goods and services to support life
Family life (involves person related to and related by biological ties or marriage or adoption or social custom) include
Life in general refers to all activities that belong to work family and any other domain in one’s existence, subsumes your work and family factors
Intersection of work and family life results in three outcomes:
Conflict: interole conflict, pressures from work and family domains are mutually incompatible in some respect and to some extent
Enrichment: extent to which experiences from one role (for ex, work) improve the quality of life in the other role (for ex. Family). Common sentiment: people feel fullfilment in work, which then enriches their family life.
balance: individuals with perception that work and non work activities are compatible and promote growth in accordance within individuals current life priorities, under this balance circumstance, neither they work or family domain detract and simniosis complementary, such balance is everybody’s aim
Work-family conflict, coping and employee well-being
Conflict coping and well-being
Problem focused coping, conflict, and well being
Reduce overall conflict is function of the degree of control an individual has in a given life domain
Cultural context:
western —> individual have greater degree of control over their professional life
Eastern —> more collectivist in nature, more descripencies
Work-support, conflict, and well-being
Family supportive supervisor, reduce work to fam conflict
Complex relationship exist
No one best way or simple solution
Multifacet is required
Family support, conflict and well-being
Instrumental that emotional assistance be intertwined in order to reduce family and work conflict by family serve a supportive role in terms of individual work life
Positively impact individual wellbeing
Employee wellbeing in 21st century
Factors that challenge employee wellbeing
Increasing work intensity, load, and hours, especially among professionals
Lack of job security: unsettle person wellbeing
Advancements in technology: destabalize wellbeing in work domain
Rise in dual-income/career families: causing strain contemporarily, discovering new frameworks for providers in household
Ageing population (i.e elderly dependents): not only have children but also elderly dependence, more burden
Stagnant gender norms pertaining to work and non-work domains: linked to dual income, bcs there is a significant blurring in expectations and norms, who should be breadwinners, providers bla bla
What is work family conflict?
Forms & directionality of work-family conflict
Forms
Time: performing one role but minimise the ability to perform other role
Strain: stress in one role that drains individuals mental and physical energy to perform the other role
Behaviour: required of one role is incompatible of expectation of other role
If work mau autocratic or aggressive, this might not serve family domain favorably
Directionality
Family to work conflict:
work-to-family conflict
Factors influencing work-family conflict
Family
Instrumental: relief from family-related duties
Emotional: encouragement and understanding (from spouse or fam member)
Individual
Coping strategies used by individuals (eg. Problem-focused, avoidance)
Work
Family supportive supervisor
Family supportive organisational policies (eg. Flexitime, telework)
Public policy
Legislation pertaining to employee rights