Positive Healthy Organizations: Promoting Well-Being, Meaningfulness, and Sustainability in Organizations.

By Annamaria Di Fabio. 2017

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This contribution deals with the concept of healthy organizations and starts with a definition of healthy organizations and healthy business. In healthy organizations, culture, climate, and practices create an environment conducive to employee health and safety as well as organizational effectiveness (Lowe, 2010). A healthy organization thus leads to a healthy and successful business (De Smet et al., 2007; Grawitch and Ballard, 2016), underlining the strong link between organizational profitability and workers' well-being. Starting from a positive perspective focused on success and excellence, the contribution describes how positive organizational health psychology evolved from occupational health psychology to positive occupational health psychology stressing the importance of a primary preventive approach. The focus is not on deficiency and failure but on a positive organizational attitude that proposes interventions at different levels: individual, group, organization, and inter-organization. Healthy organizations need to find the right balance between their particular situation, sector, and culture, highlighting the importance of well-being and sustainability. This contribution discusses also the sustainability of work-life projects and the meaning of work in healthy organizations, stressing the importance of recognizing, respecting, and using the meaning of work as a key for growth and success. Finally, the contribution discusses new research and intervention opportunities for healthy organizations.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. José María Peiró
2. Annamaria Di Fabio

In General Health Professions

1. José María Peiró
2. Annamaria Di Fabio
3. Martin Geisler
4. Tuija Muhonen
5. H. Berthelsen

In Social Psychology

1. José María Peiró
2. Annamaria Di Fabio
3. Martin Geisler
4. Tuija Muhonen
5. H. Berthelsen
6. A. Vedel

Citations in the corpus

• Retaining Social Workers: The Role of Quality of Work and Psychosocial Safety Climate for Work Engagement, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment (2019, background): “Furthermore, in line with the positive organizational psychology approach (e.g., Bakker & Schaufeli, 2008; Di Fabio, 2017; Gable & Haidt, 2005), the present study focuses on the motivational process in the JD-R model.”
• Migrant Workers and Psychological Health: A Systematic Review (2019, unknown): “provide feedback and increase employee participation [149].”
• Human Capital Sustainability Leadership to Promote Sustainable Development and Healthy Organizations: A New Scale (2018, background): “Healthy organizations that try to obtain the right balance between their specific conditions, field and culture underline the increasing importance of well-being and sustainability [5].”