Well-being in the workplace: A psychological review

Pages: 146-152
Kalpana Sahooq (Asian School of Business Management, Shiksha Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Orissa )

In a rapidly changing business scenario wherein effective performance is becoming the key factor for individuals, teams and organizations, there is tremendous need to constantly upgrade the existing skills/attitudes/competencies as well as motivational level to achieve global benchmarks. Success is journey, never a destination. However, to achieve success, regularly in the competitive environment requires individual frame of positive mind, attitude and self-motivation under a very difficult situations and circumstances in the workplace. So health and well-being in the workplace have become major concern in contemporary life. These topics continue to dominate the pages of practitioner-oriented magazines. More recently such topics are receiving attention in scholarly research journals. For a variety of reasons, these issues occupy a much more prominent niche in mainstream organizational research. The need for regulating new business growth is usually prompted by social and psychological perception of the employees .We need to understand the key predictors and the process of well-being. This paper tries to highlight the major components of well-being and its consequences in the workplace.