Investing in well-being helps both people and societies flourish. Well-being measures include quality of life, emotional health and resilience – the capacity to recover quickly after experiencing hardship or challenge.
Well-being requires deliberate work and requires time. Eating healthily and exercising regularly are two effective steps toward creating well-being skills.
Workplace well-being
Wellbeing is an essential factor of company performance, so it is vital that managers understand how to promote workplace well-being for their staff. This may involve providing supportive team environments, flexible work arrangements and wellness programs – not to mention fair compensation and retirement benefits – for employees in order to promote employee well-being in the workplace.
Managers have an important role to play in improving workplace wellbeing by assessing and addressing any factors that cause stress. One effective method for doing this is conducting a pressure profile, similar to risk assessments used for electrical equipment or hazardous chemicals in conventional workplace safety measures.
As remote working is increasingly merging with personal life, leaders should aim to foster employees’ emotional resilience by encouraging employee-focused communication. Additional ways of improving employee well-being may include offering flexible working hours or implementing a healthy lunch program – creating an inclusive workplace is also a powerful force that contributes greatly towards worker happiness and wellbeing. While numerous factors impact workplace wellbeing, positive culture remains at its core.
Community well-being
Community well-being is a means of measuring how local communities function and feel. It takes into account aspects such as connectedness, opportunity, and contribution – factors which are vitally important in maintaining both their health and sustainability as well as individual well-being – such as supportive communities that may have greater chances of weathering climate disruptions than unconnected and hostile ones.
Interest in well-being research and promotion has increased dramatically over recent decades, with numerous objective measures of well-being created and tracked regularly by government agencies. But significant progress still needs to be made at a local level.
To address this void, this paper introduces a template to assess community subjective well-being. This assessment covers six domains of flourishing individuals, good relationships, proficient leadership, healthy practices, satisfying community membership and strong mission – it argues that this conceptualization provides more accurate results than simply measuring satisfaction with community membership.
Personal well-being
Personal wellbeing refers to one’s emotional, mental and spiritual health – from having an effective support system in place and positive social connections through healthy relationships to finding meaning in one’s work life and a sense of purpose and fulfillment. Neglecting any aspect of personal wellbeing may negatively impact another, leading to reduced work performance or stress as well as poor overall health outcomes.
This paper employs data from ESS to develop a multidimensional measure of flourishing (MPWB). Our measures are derived from Huppert and So’s 10 dimensions of flourishing that span hedonic and eudaimonic aspects of well-being – competence, emotional stability, engagement, meaning optimism positive emotion resilience self-esteem as examples.
The ten dimensions are combined into a composite score that is standardised for the sample population. This provides valuable insights both at macro and individual dimension levels to provide more efficient overviews and targeted interventions, respectively. Furthermore, their underlying factors can also be unpacked further for greater insight into specific aspects of a construct.
Health well-being
Wellbeing can often be confused with poor health, yet its positive connotations make it attractive when used in wellness products, programs, or interventions. However, it’s essential to distinguish it from illness since their respective philosophies differ and measurements differ accordingly.
Understanding the factors determining wellbeing is also crucial, and two broad philosophies exist as cornerstones to its concept – hedonism and eudonism. While both concepts can guide research on wellbeing, they should not be seen as interchangeable – for instance, happiness and life satisfaction don’t correspond well with wellbeing measures, nor do their measurements converge well together.
Wellbeing may overlap with terms like health, wellness and quality of life; however, it should be investigated independently as its own entity. A salutogenic approach provides a more holistic and inclusive perspective than biomedical pathogenic theory for investigating wellbeing; instead focusing on individual and collective determinants to assess this concept more effectively.
