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Constructing Well-Being at Work: What Does It Mean?

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Unlike the private sector, the public sector requires more evidence to justify how well-being initiatives contribute to employee motivation and performance. Does well-being in both sectors mean the same thing? Businesses seek employee well-being as a vehicle to their sustained competitive advantage and achievement of performance. Most literature in the evaluation of Human Resource Management management (HRM) practices showed the application of two fit theories, ‘fit with best practice’ and ‘fit with contingency’. Empirical research and conceptualisation of a relevant model to standardise, measure, and to better understand the relationships between employee’s reaction to high-commitment HRM practices, the quality of working life and well-being at work is still understudied. Hence, this chapter as part of a larger scale study presents a conceptual framework to address these antecedents and consequences in the context of new public management.

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Cvenkel, N. (2020). Constructing Well-Being at Work: What Does It Mean?. In: Well-Being in the Workplace: Governance and Sustainability Insights to Promote Workplace Health . Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3619-9_4

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