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Wellbeing in the Workplace: A New Conceptual Model and Implications for Practice

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The concept of wellbeing is certainly not new. Both employers and employees continue to find ways and strategies for improving and sustaining wellbeing at the individual and organizational levels. The chapter attempts to address the issues and challenges in developing institutional strategies. Employees are motivated to enhance and sustain improved levels of wellbeing to be able to contribute to work as well as their satisfaction with life in general. The personal level emphasis for the employee is important and also a focus of the chapter. In order to address institutional and personal level approaches to wellbeing, a primary goal of the chapter is to review recent literature on wellbeing, identify key constructs or dimensions that constitute wellbeing, develop a conceptual model, and present implications for practice. The review of literature on wellbeing offers a way to conceptualize a model and a typology for understanding the different dimensions that constitute wellbeing as well as present an emergent model. The new model offers implications for managers as they harness the full potential and value of their employees by developing and deploying practical strategies for workplace wellbeing.

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Alagaraja, M. (2020). Wellbeing in the Workplace: A New Conceptual Model and Implications for Practice. In: Dhiman, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Well-Being. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02470-3_69-1

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