Workplace Health, Wellbeing and Productivity
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Occupational Safety and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 6860
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wellbeing theory; wellbeing in policy formation; wellbeing and organizations
Interests: social exchange; psychological contracts
Interests: wellbeing and productivity; gender and diversity; public administration
Interests: workplace health and wellbeing; organizing work for wellbeing; policy to support workplace wellbeing
Interests: health economics; sleep; econometrics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The evidence of a link between workplace health and wellbeing and indicators of organizational performance is robust and reliable. There is also considerable evidence of strong relationships between indicators of health, wellbeing and employee engagement. However, with questions over the strength of the evidence that workplace health and wellbeing interventions cause better health and wellbeing, there are also questions over whether the actions taken by organizations to improve health and wellbeing will also address organizational and societal concerns around productivity and performance.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to further explore the links between workplace health, wellbeing and productivity, and to examine how organizations may act to achieve the twin aims of better worker health and higher productivity. We take broad definitions of productivity and performance that include not just financial performance, but also issues related to worker motivation, absenteeism and presenteeism, for example. We welcome empirical or conceptual submissions that address issues such as:
- The mechanisms through which health/wellbeing and productivity are linked and the direction of causation of these relationships;
- The specific actions and initiatives organizations can take to achieve simultaneously better health/wellbeing and productivity as well as the actions and initiatives that may increase one at the expense of the other;
- The cost-effectiveness of specific organizational actions and initiatives that can improve worker health/wellbeing;
- How organizations implement and manage actions and initiatives to improve health/wellbeing in ways that also enhance performance or productivity;
- The relationships between health/wellbeing and productivity at the meso-organizational level and the broader macro-country or societal level.
Dr. David Watson
Dr. Marijana Baric
Prof. Dr. Sara Connolly
Prof. Dr. Kevin Daniels
Dr. Marco Hafner
Dr. Christian van Stolk
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- workplace health and wellbeing
- productivity
- organizational performance
- wellbeing economics
- mutual gains
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