Workplace wellbeing

Wallace, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7330-0114 2025. Workplace wellbeing. McCann, Leo, Bozkurt, Ödül, Finn, Rachael, Granter, Edward, Hunter, Carolyn, Kivinen, Nina, Kumar, Arun and Wierman, Brian, eds. Elgar Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies, Business 2025, Elgar Online, pp. 498-501. (10.4337/9781800377721.000123)

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Abstract

Most who work in and research on larger organizations, will have encountered the concept of wellbeing. Indeed, even those out of work can be drawn into its ambit since they are often enmeshed in the state's own attempts to encourage people to be more ‘well’. Quite what being well really entails is up for debate but what is less contested is that organizations under capitalism have had an interest on the health of their workers, for a very long time. Similarly, it seems fairly clear that discourses of wellbeing, though perhaps originating in the wider public sphere, have been operationalised by organizations with increasing regularity. Thus there is a distinctly managerial note to workplace wellbeing – a happy, healthy worker is a productive worker. This entry on workplace wellbeing traces the career of the concept, noting that within CMS, workplace wellbeing has often been seen as performative and potentially exclusionary. The entry ends with a call to think more about non-managerialist, less-exclusionary forms of wellbeing, and how they might be instituted at work.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Elgar Online
ISBN:	9781800377714
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	9 May 2025
Last Modified:	09 May 2025 10:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/178103

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