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WK 5: Min Literature Review: Promoting Employee Well-being
Trae Clavo
Trevecca Nazarene University
BUS-8010-O06.2: Current Topics in Leadership and Management
Dr. Robert Roller
June 17, 2022
WK 5: Min Literature Review
Promoting Employee Wellbeing
Introduction
The concept of workplace well-being refers to how subjective well-being is applied in the workplace. Workplace well-being, which affects employee happiness, is a significant factor in deciding an organization's long-term success. Workplace happiness is essential since it has a positive impact on overall productivity. Moreover, workplace well-being is a sense of prosperity gained from work linked to employees' general emotions (core effect) and the employee's intrinsic and extrinsic worth (work values). Three critical areas of research associated with organizational life for employee health include the correlation of unsafe work arrangements with specific diseases, stress at work, and the specific linkage of ailments with personal attributes or type of work environment. Workplace well-being is an essential topic in the organizational study that has gotten the most attention.
Moreover, individual career experience, whether mental or social, significantly affects a person's professional and personal performance. On the other side, welfare can damage employees and businesses. As envisioned, workers with poor well-being would be less effective, make poor judgments, be more likely to miss work, and continually reduce overall contribution to the organization. The establishment of worker attachment has been aided by workplace well-being (Gorgenyi-Hegyes et al., 2021). Well-being also plays a role in developing personality traits such as hope, self-efficacy, perseverance, and optimism, represented in psychological capital. This min literature review aims to highlight HR's role in employee well-being in this 'New Normal,' which is both new and abnormal from any perspective. In addition, the articles examines the three phrases 'New Normal,' 'Employee Well-being,' and 'Role of Human Resource' concerning one another and offers insight based on many studies. Employee well-being has been a frequently discussed topic that has long been a source of concern for all Human Resource professionals.
Topic Analysis
The rapid shift in settings induced by national catastrophes and pandemics has impacted people's financial and health and welfare. As a result of psychological and physical anguish and on and off work schedules, the company and the individual are stressed. Pressures from competition to live in a failing economy have opened the way for the 'New Normal,' in which the current state is regarded as usual with new adaptations (Guest, 2017). Employees have had to put their lives in danger by abandoning the so-called comfort of their homes to go to work, while others have transformed their homes into offices to work from home. For companies, the most challenging aspect is ensuring their employees' well-being to maintain consistent and timely job progress, as Nielsen et al. (2017) opined.
Moreover, according to Nielsen et al. (2017), human resources have become essential during pandemics and disasters. In a crisis, the most challenging duty is dealing with personnel and getting work done with minimal resources. As envisioned, related to an article reviewed by Colenberg (2021), employee well-being ensures mutual benefits for both the employee and the employer or the organization.
Methodologies
The researchers conducted a thorough literature analysis on the new standard, employee well-being, and HR's role. The content of the posts and the most related literature from the papers, blogs, and LinkedIn posts on worker well-being and the Human Resource role, new normal, and pandemic were also examined. First, researchers used keywords to obtain relevant trends and conclusions in several review study publications. The second is a descriptive study of posts, blogs, and articles authored by various Human Resources specialists, trend analysis, and industry leaders. Thirdly, superlatives and employees from distinct organizations were conducted to help current issues in the workplace. Also, open and closed questionnaires were issued to employees.
Limitations and Research Opportunities
Based on a review of the literature, feature extraction, and descriptive data analysis, the findings reveal the significant trends that Human Resource leaders and industry experts are following (Guest, 2017). Employee well-being has been a much-discussed topic that has long been a source of concern for Human Resource executives. Employee well-being benefits both the employee and the company. Employee happiness may be measured on physical, psychological, and social levels, which is critical for the organization's and industry's long-term success. Notably, according to Gorgenyi-Hegyes et al. (2021), the review opines that an employee's well-being is not solely the responsibility of Human Resources but also that of the employees.
Human Resources must prioritize employee concerns. However, the review by Guest (2017) pointed out that transformational leaders become necessary for Human resources during a crisis or other ongoing challenges in the industry. Human Resources may support employees in coping with the new events and normalizing the impact. According to the literature, human Resource becomes a focal point during a crisis, and better management may help employees adjust to the new situation. The research conducted by Colenberg et al. used only peer-reviewed journals from two databases leaving room for further study to include other database searches and publication types (2021). Therefore, further research is suggested.
Conclusion
Workplace well-being is defined as an employee's overall feelings and satisfaction with their job's internal and external qualities. Workplace well-being is influenced by organizational climate, superlative interaction quality, job demand, personality, type of work atmosphere, health and welfare ideas, challenges at work, problems brought into the workplace, and work stress. Workplace contentment impacts several things, including employee engagement, performance, and psychological capital. Three other ideas of workplace well-being are relational well-being at work, subjective well-being at work, and eudaimonic well-being at work. According to the literature review by Krekel (2019), positive human contact and the availability of a stable family support structure are also essential determinants of employee well-being. Therefore, this study also discovered that numerous organizational activities such as wellness programs and improvement initiatives contribute to a healthy work environment and are essential determinants of employee well-being, coupled with a flexible work environment (Krekel et al.,2019). In addition, this study also looked into the relationship between employee well-being and organizational or workplace productivity. Notably, this study contributes to the current literature on employee well-being, intending to inspire managers to devise strategies to improve well-being in their workplaces by identifying its determinants. Future leaders should take note of all recommendations provided by the researchers.
References
Gorgenyi-Hegyes, E., Nathan, R. J., & Fekete-Farkas, M. (2021). Workplace health promotion, employee well-being, and loyalty during COVID-19 pandemic. Economies, 9(2), 55.
Guest, D. E. (2017). Human resource management and employee well-being: Towards a new analytic framework. Human resource management journal, 27(1), 22-38.
Krekel, C., Ward, G., & De Neve, J. E. (2019). Employee well-being, productivity, and firm performance. Saïd Business School WP, 4.
Nielsen, K., Nielsen, M. B., Ogbonnaya, C., Känsälä, M., Saari, E., & Isaksson, K. (2017). Workplace resources to improve employee well-being and performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Work & Stress, 31(2), 101-120.
