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Background: Employee Wellbeing At Workplace

Employees’ well-being is also an important constituent for an employee to make decision for his future in the organization. Thus, there is extensive amount of evidence to point out the correlation between employees’ well-being and performance. Meanwhile, importance of employees’ well-being is also noticed by the policy makers in Pakistan. They have highlighted the importance of employees’ well-being by ensuring the welfare of the worker, job security and good working conditions as key element in the Fifth Labor Policy, 2010. It is argued that environments should be created in a way, in which employees and employers are dedicated in enhancing the labor productivity (Fifth Labor Policy, 2010).

Definition

The term employee well-being refers to “the mental and physical health of the workers” (Currie, 2001; Eatough, 2013). Which means that employee should be working in such environment where he feels safe both physically and mentally. Mental health refers to the presence of wellness rather than the absence of illness. Well-being is a broader topic that covers so many organizational and workplace factors. Page and Vella-Brodrick (2009) operationalizes employee wellbeing and covers all the aspects of employee’s wellbeing including psychological wellbeing, subjective wellbeing and wellbeing at workplace. Figure below explains the idea of Page and Vella-Brodrick. As shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Model of Employee Mental Health

Significance Of Employee Wellbeing At Workplace

This chapter on employee wellbeing at workplace will promote: