Employee Well-being: Importance, Initiatives, and Strategies

Employee Well-being

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAINBODY...................................................................................................................................3
The concept of employee well-being...........................................................................................3
Tesco's attempt at employee well-being initiatives.....................................................................7
Walmart's attempt at employee well-being initiatives.................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Employee well-being refer to an employee who is physiologically fit in the workplace. In
simple word optimizing health of the all employees who offers their services in organization
rather than reducing number of staff who takes treatment for the medical condition. Employees
well-being is important for the organization because it supports organization to achieve their
mission (Nielsen and et.al., 2017). To maintain well-being of employees organizes well-being
program which helps employees to adjust in atmosphere and keeps healthy behaviour.
Employees well-being is crucial factor for determining effectiveness of an organization. It
improves productivity of employees at workplace. Human resource management plays vital role
to maintain well-being of employee's. To understand significance of the employees well-being in
the workplace there is an example of two companies Tesco and Walmart. This report covers
definition of employee well-being, scopes and their practices.
MAINBODY
The concept of employee well-being
Well being refers to the condition of individual people to being comfortable and healthy.
Well being is crucial how person feels about different aspect of their life, their job and other
activities and their relationship with others (Gyambrah and Odidja, 2017). Employees well-being
is important part of the organization because if employee is mentally and physically stable at
workplace as result gives high performance at workplace.
Importance of the employees well-being
Well-being of person at workplace is important for the organization, for example if
employees are healthy physically and emotionally as result they have better resources to manage
stress of the client, customers requirements on time. Such kind of atmosphere allows employees
to be more productive and improve positive work environment within company. Well being of
the place improves employees engagement by reducing stress and organizes fruitful working
environment within company (Wolfe, 2018). Different organization keeps different policies for
employees. The main goal of the policies to maintain their well-being within workplace.
Scope of employees well-being
Physical work environment is important for the employees where they offer their services
to company that place should neat, clean and proper sitting arrangement. It encourages

employees to give attendance regular base. If employees doesn't get proper sitting arrangement
and have to coop up in small cubicles for more than eight hours every day, which directly gives
impact on mental and physical well-being. It demotivate employees to work well within
workplace. To improve employee wellness company offers right amount of collaborative space
where employees can make themself be comfortable. Organization offers hygienic work place
which motivates employees to give extra efforts to make their service productive. Physical health
investment is an important part for the employee well-being which supports to improve their
well-being scope in well-formed (Bakker and Demerouti, 2018). For example, if employees
gives majority of their time at job place, so it is manager duty to give first priority of their
employee's health. To keep them healthy, manager takes initiatives which focus on employees'
empowerment. Even manager organizes employees well-being program which includes
educational resources. It motivates employees and their families to spend healthier life and
inspires them to put in their personal health. Well being program maintain employee's wellness
in the company and make them more productive in company.
Mental health investment Mental health is most important part for the person i.e. person
is mentally fit means more active as result gets better outcomes. On the other hand if person is
mentally unhealthy means in stress as result gets negative outcomes, mentally inactive. As same
fact apply on employees mental health within company. To improve mental health of employees,
organization offers communication campaigns which helps employees and their families to keep
health mentally and physically. These program also inspire individual o group of employees to
keep mind creative and proactive for each situation. Employees relationship is essential part for
the organization and it improves employee well-being at workplace where they offer their
services (Kluegel and Smith, 2017). Various organization involves cultural diversity at
workplace which improves productivity of the company. Diverse culture creates conflict while
working with other employees within workplace. The reasons behind these conflicts are
language communication, discrimination, salary issues, policies issues, work pressure etc. To
resolve these conflicts, organization applies various strategy and understand reason of conflicts.
Based on the reason, manager resolves them and builds relationship with them. Manager allows
them direct communication relevant to task issues, salary issues and work pressure. Organization
encourages team work which encourages employees to give the best performance and maintains
their well-being within workplace (Sharma, 2017). Manager focuses employees objectives