The Importance Of Wellbeing In The Workplace

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In recent years, the fast pace of life and the requirements of workplace can have a negative impact on a person’s health, physical or mental. In many cases, employees may feel pressure in their work environment and this leads to disorientation from their work. The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health as a situation where there is physical, mental and social wellbeing in a person at the highest possible level (WHO, 1946, p.100). There is not a widely accepted definition for wellbeing but CIPD defines it as generating an environment to promote a case of satisfaction which allows an employee to evolve and achieve his full potential for the benefit of himself and the organization (CIPD, 2007, p.4). However, two questions that need to …show more content…

The elements of physical aspect are physical and mental health, working environment, physical safety and accommodation. The emotional aspect consists of positive relationships, emotional intelligence and social responsibility. The personal development aspect contains autonomy, career development, lifelong learning and creativity. Moreover, the organization/work aspect includes change management, work demands, autonomy and job security. Finally, values contain ethical standards, diversity, psychological contract and spiritual expression. Organizations which support and realize the importance of health and wellbeing are likely to be benefited in many ways. First of all, the quality of work increases and the employee is engaged to his work. This leads to better performance and high productivity (Robertson and Cooper, 2011, p.109).This means that hard work increases the profit of the company and its reputation. Another benefit is that the phenomenon of absenteeism due to illness is reduced (Robertson and Cooper, 2011, p.109) and therefore the company saves absent costs, avoids health insurance or recruitment …show more content…

The risk management process has five steps which are to identify the hazards, to decide who might be harmed and in what way, evaluate the risks and find solutions, record the findings and finally monitor and review (Cranwell-Ward and Abbey, 2005, p.74-75). Firstly, the minimization of hazards requires the identification of them and measures should be taken in order to avoid the consequences of a possible danger and generally to be on alert (Wells, 1996, p.6). Secondly, people in organizations belong in different categories such as young workers, expectant mothers, passers-by, visitors and others so the company needs to understand who might be harmed and how (Hughes and Ferrett, 2011, p.105). Thirdly, the corporation needs to evaluate the risk and find solution in order to protect the people through tackling the risks at an early stage, providing protective equipment and giving appropriate information to the employees (Hughes and Ferrett, 2011, p.106). Furthermore, a written record of risk assessment including information about hazards that have occurred, the measures taken and the effectiveness should be accessible to the employees (Hughes and Ferrett, 2011, p.106). Finally, is the updating of the assessment if necessary. For instance, the introduction of new machinery or a change in the workforce (HSE, 2014,

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