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- The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect
- The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Part I Theoretical and Methodological Foundations
- Part II Workplace Affect and Individual Worker Outcomes
- 8 Affect, Stress, and Health
- 9 Emotion and Various Forms of Job Performance
- 10 The Role of Affect and Its Regulation for Creativity and Innovation
- 11 Emotional Labor
- 12 Advancing the Field
- 13 Affect and Workplace Judgment and Decision-Making
- 14 The Mindful Emotion Management Framework
- 15 Benefits of Negative Affective States
- 16 Interventions to Improve Employee Well-Being
- Part III Workplace Affect and Interpersonal and Team-Level Processes
- Part IV Workplace Affect and Organizational, Social, and Cultural Processes
- Part V Discrete Emotions at Work
- Part VI New Perspectives on Workplace Affect
- Index
- References
16 - Interventions to Improve Employee Well-Being
from Part II - Workplace Affect and Individual Worker Outcomes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 June 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect
- The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Part I Theoretical and Methodological Foundations
- Part II Workplace Affect and Individual Worker Outcomes
- 8 Affect, Stress, and Health
- 9 Emotion and Various Forms of Job Performance
- 10 The Role of Affect and Its Regulation for Creativity and Innovation
- 11 Emotional Labor
- 12 Advancing the Field
- 13 Affect and Workplace Judgment and Decision-Making
- 14 The Mindful Emotion Management Framework
- 15 Benefits of Negative Affective States
- 16 Interventions to Improve Employee Well-Being
- Part III Workplace Affect and Interpersonal and Team-Level Processes
- Part IV Workplace Affect and Organizational, Social, and Cultural Processes
- Part V Discrete Emotions at Work
- Part VI New Perspectives on Workplace Affect
- Index
- References
Summary
Considering that work itself and work characteristics have a considerable impact on individuals’ well-being and considering that adults spend more than one-third of their waking hours at work (Burke, 2017), researchers as well as practitioners have sought to identify ways to improve employee well-being through workplace interventions. Well-being is an umbrella concept that has been conceptualized in different ways and encompasses a wide range of dimensions (Burke, 2017). Organizational research has predominantly adopted the hedonic perspective of well-being (Sonnentag, 2015), which focuses on people’s emotional/affective and cognitive evaluations of their lives and concerns what laypeople refer to as happiness and satisfaction (Diener, Oishi, & Lucas, 2003). In this tradition, high subjective well-being is indicated by the experience of positive affective states, the absence of negative affective states, and positive cognitive evaluations of being satisfied with one’s life as a whole or with specific life domains, such as work (Diener et al., 2003; Sonnentag, 2015). Frequently, intervention research focuses on employee experiences that signal a lack of well-being, such as negative emotions, psychological strain, psychosomatic complaints, work–family conflict, or burnout. Increasingly, however, scholars have also been addressing positive aspects of work-related well-being including positive emotions, job satisfaction, work engagement, thriving, or flow (Sonnentag, 2015). The breadth of the overall concept of employee well-being and its underlying dimensions will be reflected in our review of intervention research, which has also used a wide range of well-being-related outcome variables.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect , pp. 214 - 226Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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