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Hello everyone. I'm
Dr. Ashley O'Donoghue
from TU Dublin Graduate
Business School.
Today's session looks at
what is employee well-being.
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There are four things we're
going to cover in this session.
What is employee well-being?
Why is employee
well-being important?
What is employee
work-related well-being?
And how can we support
employee well-being at work?
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When we look at
well-being, there are lots
of different definitions
of well-being.
We have mental
well-being (the mind),
physical well-being (the
body), spiritual well-being
(purpose), financial and
economic well-being,
(security), and
work-related well-being,
which is employee well-being.
We spend so much of our time at
work that employee
well-being is important.
well-being can be described as
judging life positively
and feeling good.
It's important when
we come to work,
we put employee well-being at
the center because we
bring with us our
mental well-being,
our physical well-being,
our spiritual well-being,
our financial and economic
well-being into the workplace.
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Employee well-being stems
from positive
organizational psychology,
which describes well-being
as a state of flourishing.
This is an ideal state
because when we're in a
state of flourishing,
we're at our optimum,
both mentally, physically,
and emotionally.
Employee well-being we
know is subjective.
So, Individuals make cognitive
evaluative judgments about
their experience of work.
This is accompanied by
different levels of
positive and negative
emotional reactions
and different levels of energy
(High energy, low energy).
This is important because if
employee well-being
is subjective,
if it's us making
cognitive evaluative
of judgments about
our experience of work,
then we know that employee
well-being is malleable.
It can be influenced by factors
in the workplace, and
this is important.
How employees think
and feel about
their work can be
positive or negative.
Hence, we have concepts,
employee well-being and the
opposite employee ill-being.
