1. INTRODUCTION
Well-being is a complex construct that revolves around concerns optimal experience and functioning. A focus on well-being considers In regards to wellbeing,the focus is on how people feel and function, and how they evaluate their lives. Wellbeing ‘at work’ has a long history – the positive corelation of healthy and happy worker with as a productivitye worker is not a new thesishas been well documented.
In recent years, lots of research activities have beenare taken up ion this concept (Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999;Keyes, Schmotkin, & Ryff, 2002; Stratham & Chase, 2010, & Seligman, 2011)but . Thethe question of how wellbeing should be defined still remains largely unresolved (Forgeard, Jayawickreme, Kern, & Seligman …show more content…
The introduction of new technology hasisspeeding upincreased the pace of change (Currie, 2001) and has increased the demanding forthe immediacy of response. and dDual earning families have become ais nowcommonplace (Cox et al., 2005) and these have given birth to a new set of creating troubles challenges to manage the work life of balance between work family and life satisfaction (Cooper and Robertson, 2001; Guest, 2002). With this in mind, tThese challenges issue of employee wellbeing at work haves increasingly attracted attention of not only Government’s attention agencies but also of researchers and HR practitioners.’s attention (Departmentfor Work and Pensions, …show more content…
The Department for Work and Pensions (2006) suggests that healthy and fit employees are theassets in real sense as well as essential for company’s profitability. Tehrani et al. (2007) in his study points out that wellbeing in theworkplace hasisgradually growing upbeing given more focus in the business agenda as more employers have started to realize recognize thebenefits and contribution that can be made byof introducing workplace health andwellness
Well-being is a complex construct that revolves around concerns optimal experience and functioning. A focus on well-being considers In regards to wellbeing,the focus is on how people feel and function, and how they evaluate their lives. Wellbeing ‘at work’ has a long history – the positive corelation of healthy and happy worker with as a productivitye worker is not a new thesishas been well documented.
In recent years, lots of research activities have beenare taken up ion this concept (Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999;Keyes, Schmotkin, & Ryff, 2002; Stratham & Chase, 2010, & Seligman, 2011)but . Thethe question of how wellbeing should be defined still remains largely unresolved (Forgeard, Jayawickreme, Kern, & Seligman …show more content…
The introduction of new technology hasisspeeding upincreased the pace of change (Currie, 2001) and has increased the demanding forthe immediacy of response. and dDual earning families have become ais nowcommonplace (Cox et al., 2005) and these have given birth to a new set of creating troubles challenges to manage the work life of balance between work family and life satisfaction (Cooper and Robertson, 2001; Guest, 2002). With this in mind, tThese challenges issue of employee wellbeing at work haves increasingly attracted attention of not only Government’s attention agencies but also of researchers and HR practitioners.’s attention (Departmentfor Work and Pensions, …show more content…
The Department for Work and Pensions (2006) suggests that healthy and fit employees are theassets in real sense as well as essential for company’s profitability. Tehrani et al. (2007) in his study points out that wellbeing in theworkplace hasisgradually growing upbeing given more focus in the business agenda as more employers have started to realize recognize thebenefits and contribution that can be made byof introducing workplace health andwellness