Employee Well-being through PERMA-H+: An Integrative, Indian Cultural Framework

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21275479

Anaya Nisal¹ and Anagha Lavalekar² (Department of Psychology, Jnana Prabodhini’s Institute of Psychology, Pune, Maharashtra^1,2 and Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), Pune, Maharashtra¹)

Employees’ well-being is a topic of discussion these days, and determining how to achieve it is a challenging puzzle. Empirical evidence suggests that the PERMA model of well-being is a scientific and comprehensive framework for defining well-being. By acknowledging the PERMA model’s critiques and limitations while building on its foundations, this study proposes an expanded, culturally grounded, integrative well-being framework for employees in the Indian workplace. Along with the PERMA model, it considers the role of physical health, cultural context, and principles from traditional and positive psychology to outline pathways to well-being. This model is named “PERMA-H+”, in which PERMA-H is a cultural contextual set of building blocks, and ‘+’ represents the pathways to well-being. This framework is a part of a doctoral study. Researchers aim to achieve this by providing 1) a conceptual overview of the well-being and models, 2) a brief overview of the building blocks of PERMA and the overall model, and 3) a conceptual expansion of the proposed model, “PARMA-H+”, with relevance to the study. The proposed PERMA-H+ model follows the “teach them to fish” approach. Investing in an individual’s well-being will accelerate the individual’s flourishing, and organisational growth will be a byproduct!