Essay on Employee Well-Being

Running head: EMPLOYEE WELLBEING
EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING
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The word well-being is a very common term that is being used commonly in the present
scenario. The government and the other public agencies are looking in the well-being of
individuals very much seriously. Well-being significantly means how someone tends to feel
about the various things that tend to happen in their respective lives. It tends to concern both the
lives they live in their homes, about their health, the relationship that one tends to live with the
others. It also tends to concern the job life of one individual as well as various other activities
which one is involved in (Banfield, Kay and Royles 2018). The well-being usually deals with
the fact that an individual is happy and is even feeling well enough. However, concerning the
workplace of an individual, the well-being of an individual tends to concern about the health and
safety of the employees. In other words, it can be said that it is the duty of the workplace to
ensure that the safety of the employees are being maintained and health and safety concerns are
being limited and even addressed. However, well-being is a much broader topic in the workplace
organization. The employee well-being is more about enhancing the health of the employees
rather than firing the employees who are identified to suffer from some form of mental illness.
However, it is to be noted that the well-being of the employee’s also involves the happiness of
the employees. It also tends to include the satisfaction of the job of all the employees as well
(BATEMAN and Bateman 2014). The main goal or the aim for workplace well-being is to
implement the OSH measures in order to make sure that the workers are very much safe, healthy,
satisfied and even very much committed to their work. The well-being of the workers is one of
the most effective factor which tends to determine the effectiveness or success of an organization
in the long run. Many studies that have been done in this field tends to indicate the fact that the
standard of productivity as well as the general health and well-being of the employees are
directly connected to one another. In the present scenario, the enterprises and organizations are

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working progressively to understand and identify the requirements of the employees so that the
workers well being are handled adequately. It is however to be noted that the organization’s are
working hard for the wellness of the employees because they tend to understand that the
employees are the main resources of the organization. On the other hand, many organizations are
engaging themselves to maintain the well-being of the employees because they tend to
understand that the workers are less committed over the work when their safety and well-being
are not being safeguarded (Bratton and Gold 2017). The wellness of the employees in the
organization are maintained by creating a culture in which all the employees are being respected
and the talents of the employees are being encouraged and motivated. Giving flexible working
hours to the employees are also another way of removing the stress from the employees and
therefore it is also considered another way of looking into the wellness of the employees.
Offering one remote working day to the employees in each of the weeks is also another way of
enhancing the well-being of the employees (Anago 2016). Giving memberships card in gyms
and health insurances programs can also be initiated. Education can also be offered by the
employers to the employees about the financial matters. Employee assistance programs must also
be initiated in order to provide counselling and even services of support to the employees or even
to their families (Brewster and Mayrhofer 2011). Encouragement must also be given by the
employers of the organization to the employees in order to focus on their physical health. These
are some of the steps which the organizations or the companies implement in order to ensure the
well-being of the employees.
The physical, as well as the mental health of the employees, tend to get highly influenced
with the healthy, clean and spacious environment in which an individual tends to work. It is to
be noted that various employees who are working in the organization tend to suffer from some

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form of diseases like diabetes, high levels of cholesterol and high blood pressure. Therefore one
of the scope for the well being of the employees in an organization is that the organization can
take the initiative to make the employees sign up for the services that are being provided.
However, it should be the duty of the organization to make sure that not only the people who are
suffering from some form of diseases tend to get the benefits of the services (Carbery and Cross
2015). All the employees who are working in the organization must be able to take part in the
programs which tends to check the health and safety of the employees. The physical environment
in which the employees tends to work must be very much welcoming and it must be made very
much creative. The environment in which an employee tends to work has a great impact because
an employee tends to say in his or her workplace for more than eight hours. The right
environment will enhance the creativity of the employees and even lead to a better rate of
productivity. If the physical health of an employee is well enough, then the employees are able to
work more and produce a higher rate of success or productivity (Christy 2015). Initiatives must
be taken by the employers to make sure that the wellness of the health of the employees is being
maintained. The program must be concerning education so that it can encourage the employees
as well as the families who are connected to them to live a very healthy life and not get addicted
to any form of drugs. The initiative must also be taken by the employers of the organization to
ensure that the mental peace of the employees working in the organization are being maintained.
It is to be noted that the proper mental peace of employees enabled them to be very much active
and produce a higher level of work for the organization. Alternative shift hours of time must be
offered to the employees so that they can work accordingly as per their own comfort zone.
Creative ways to engage the employees in the organization and among one another must be
ensured in order to avoid any sort of conflicts and problems. In order to create a health well