The mental health pandemic manifests everywhere, not least in your workplace. As organizations around the world face health and social crises, as well as economic uncertainty, acknowledging and improving wellbeing in your workplace is more critical than ever. Increasingly, leaders and managers must support mental health and cultivate resilience in employees - not just increase engagement and performance. Based on more than 100 million Gallup global interviews, Wellbeing at Work shows you how to do just that. Coauthored by Gallup's CEO and its Chief Workplace Scientist, Wellbeing at Work explores the five key elements of wellbeing - career, social, financial, physical and community - and how organizations can help employees and teams thrive in those elements. The book also gives leaders ideas and action items to help employees use their innate talents and strengths to thrive in each of the wellbeing elements. And Wellbeing at Work introduces a metric to report a person's best possible life: Gallup Net Thriving, which will become the 'other stock price' for organizations. In a world where work and life are more blended than ever, maximizing employee wellbeing takes on greater urgency. Wellbeing at Work shows leaders how to create a thriving and resilient culture. If you and your leaders don't change the world, who will? Wellbeing at Work includes a unique code to take the CliftonStrengths assessment, which reveals your top five strengths.
Wellbeing At Work
Description
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Mood of the World
Part 1: What Is Wellbeing?
What Is "The Best Possible Life"?
Net Thriving: The Other Stock Price
The Five Elements of Wellbeing
Part 2: Your Workplace's Wellbeing Opportunities
Key Points About the Wellbeing Elements
Career Wellbeing: You Like What You Do Every Day
Social Wellbeing: You Have Meaningful Friendships in Your Life
Financial Wellbeing: You Manage Your Money Well
Physical Wellbeing: You Have Energy to Get Things Done
Community Wellbeing: You Like Where You Live
How to Build a Culture of Net Thriving
Part 3: Risks to a Net Thriving Culture
The Four Risks Risk
#1: Employee Mental Health Risk
#2: Lack of Clarity and Purpose Risk
#3: Overreliance on Policies, Programs and Perks Risk
#4: Poorly Skilled Managers
Resilient Cultures in a Crisis
Part 4: Net Thriving Starts With Career Engagement
The Largest Study of Its Kind
Adopting Wellbeing Practices
My Expectations
My Strengths
My Development
My Opinions
My Mission or Purpose
Part 5: The Fastest Road to Net Thriving: Play to Strengths
Strengths Make Wellbeing Work
Appendixes
Appendix 1: Strengths Insights and Action Items for the Five Wellbeing Elements
Appendix 2: Manager Resource Guide to the Five Elements of Wellbeing
Appendix 3: Technical Report: The Research and Development of Gallup's Five Elements of Wellbeing
Appendix 4: The Relationship Between Engagement at Work and Organizational Outcomes: 2020 Q 12 (R) Meta-Analysis: 10th Edition
Appendix 5: References and Notes
About Gallup
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Author Description
About Jim Clifton
Jim Clifton is chairman and CEO of Gallup and bestselling author of Born to Build, The Coming Jobs War, and the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller It's the Manager. His most recent innovation, the Gallup World Poll, is designed to give the world's 7 billion citizens a voice in virtually all key global issues. Under Clifton's leadership, Gallup has expanded from a predominantly US-based company to a worldwide organization with forty offices in thirty countries and regions. Clifton is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina.
Jim Harter, Ph.D., is Chief Scientist, Workplace for Gallup and bestselling coauthor of Culture Shock, Wellbeing at Work, It's the Manager, 12: The Elements of Great Managing and Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements. His research is also featured in the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, First, Break All the Rules.
Dr. Harter has led more than 1,000 studies of workplace effectiveness, including the largest ongoing meta-analysis of human potential and business unit performance. His work has also appeared in many publications, including Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company and Time Magazine, and in many prominent business and academic journals.
Harter received his doctorate in psychological and cultural studies in quantitative and qualitative methods from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.