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Leading to Well-Being

In: Promoting Workplace Well-Being

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  • Peter Gilbert

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What we want and what we need are quite complex, stemming in part from our origins in small cohesive, tribal groups and our expansion into increasingly individual states of being within a globalized marketplace for labour and goods. Humans have perhaps moved from being big fish in small pools to small fish in a massive pool. In each human life we also have a continuing struggle between the twin desires of intimacy and autonomy. Within all of these often conflicting states, we have an increasingly complex struggle for identity. At one time, identity was formed for good or ill, often through group and community states; now we are increasingly having to make and remake who we are (see Bauman, 2005, 2007).

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  • Peter Gilbert, 2009. "Leading to Well-Being," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Neil Thompson & John Bates (ed.), Promoting Workplace Well-Being, chapter 8, pages 103-116, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-27409-9_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230274099_8
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