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Measuring Well-Being and Workplace Factors

In: Well-Being

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  • Ivan Robertson

    (Leeds University Business School)

  • Cary Cooper

    (Lancaster University
    Robertson Cooper Ltd)

Abstract

It’s clear from elsewhere in this book that improving the PWB of people at work brings a wide range of benefits, to them as individuals, to their organizations — and of course to wider society. Later chapters look at how the PWB of a workforce can be influenced and enhanced. A prerequisite for changing anything, in a systematic way, is being able to measure it. If you can’t measure, it’s impossible to know whether things have changed or not. In fact, being able to measure is important, not just for understanding what might change after an intervention but, in the case of PWB, accurate measurement is even more important in deciding what needs to happen to improve things. As well as measuring current levels of PWB, an assessment of the factors that are influencing PWB, the “drivers” of well-being, is an essential measurement prerequisite. A full explanation of the drivers of well-being is covered in a later chapter (Chapter 7) but in this chapter, as well as discussing the measurement of PWB itself, we also discuss some of the core workplace drivers of PWB and how they too can be measured.

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  • Ivan Robertson & Cary Cooper, 2011. "Measuring Well-Being and Workplace Factors," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Well-Being, chapter 0, pages 51-62, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-30673-8_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230306738_5
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