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Week 10 - Employee Wellbeing - Coggle Diagram
Week 10 - Employee Wellbeing
What is Employee Wellbeing
Wellbeing is a measure of a person's happiness, physical, emotional and mental state
Why should organisations worry about employee wellbeing?
Improved productivity, quality of work and overall morale this feeds into an improved organisation culture
Increased retention rates
The organisation is better able to attract quality candidates
Organisations are more likely to be able to avoid the high costs associated with absenteeism, injury and illness
What Leads to Employee Wellbeing
Research shows employee wellbeing can be an outcome of the intersections of an employee's work and family life
The intersection of work and family domain can result in conflict, enrichment or balance
Conflict - The role pressures from the work and family domains are mutually incompatible to some extent
Enrichment involves the extent to which experiences in 1 role, improve the quality of life in the other role
Balance - The perception that work and life activates are compatible and promote growth inaccordance with the individuals current life priorities. Under this balanced circumstance, one is other the view that neith domain detracts from the other. The domain are complimentary.
Employee Wellbeing in the 21st Century
Increasing work intensity, load and hours in circumstances where there is a lack of job certainty this tends to unsettle one's wellbeing
CONFLICT
Advancements in technology
Rise in dual-income household model
Aging population - because we have young and elderly dependants to care for
Stagnant gender norms pertaining to both domains
A manager must be aware of these problems to effectively combat them
Work-Family Conflict
Tensions that arise due to incompatibility between the work and family domains
Forms:
Time - when time is used to perform one role, and the minimise the ability of the individual to perform the other role
Strain - Stresses in one role, than drains one' mental of physical energy to perform their other role
Behaviours - When behaviours that are required of 1 role, are incompatible with behavioural expectations of another role
Directionality:
Work-to-family conflict & Family-to-work conflict
Factors Influencing Work-Family Conflict
Family:
Instrumental: Relief from family-related duties Emotional: Encouragement and understanding
Work
Family supportive supervisor and a family-supportive organisational culture (flexible working hours_
Individual
Copying strategies used by individuals (eg. problem-focused, avoidance) Mangers need to be aware of how individuals cope
Public Policy
Legislation continues to evolve with the goal to protect employee rights
Work-family Conflict, Copying & Employee Wellbeing
Family support, conflict and wellbeing
Emotional assistance is needed to reduce family and work conflict. To reduce family-to-work conflict, the family needs to serve a support role in terms of the individual's work endeavours
Work support, conflict and wellbeing Family supportive supervisor.
Problem-focused coping, conflict and wellbeing Function of the degree of control that an individual has over a given domain. It is important to consider cultural context. In western context, individuals have a great degree of control over their professional lives.
Work will always comes first, and it will impact your wellbeing