It is now proven that well-being at work contributes to professional performance. This is why employees and managers alike want to encourage it within companies.. However, well-being at work cannot be decreed or improvised. It must be driven by a quality of life at work policy that is based on solid theoretical foundations and appropriate practices..
Indeed, most of the time, well-being is poorly understood : feeling good is not being good. Well-being is a complex mechanism, linked to positive mental health. We cannot therefore
promote it lightly within companies. Too, it is appropriate to move away from naive practices, even counterproductive : it is not with table football or massages alone that we will counterbalance the negative demands which threaten the performance and health of employees. Hence the need to adopt a method based on psychology, in sociology, HR management… By combining these approaches via a proven method that fits with legal obligations, the author demonstrates how well-being can benefit businesses and employees alike.
The author
Pierre-Éric Sutter is a work psychologist, mental health preventer and social science researcher. He directs the Observatory of life at work and mars-lab, consulting firm for prevention of mental health at work and optimization of social performance.
Encourage well-being at work
For a successful quality of life at work approach, Pierre-Éric Sutter, Gereso editions.
