Conceptualizing the Sustainable Workplace Well-being: A Measurement Framework

Abstract

The concept of sustainable workplace well-being and how different it is from other types of well-being in organizational contexts has been seldom examined in the existing literature. This calls for further research in this area as there is no universally accepted scale for the measurement of sustainable workplace wellbeing. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a systematic review of literature on workplace wellbeing and synthesize it with the concept of sustainable workplace wellbeing is to develop a scale for the measurement and evaluation of sustainable workplace well-being. About fifty articles related to wellbeing in organizational context were collected and scrutinized to differentiate workplace well-being from other types of well-being such as holistic well-being, subjective well-being, psychological well-being, emotional well-being, and employee well-being. We then carefully compiled the constructs and questionnaires used in these studies for measuring workplace well-being and summarized those in tabulated form for a holistic picture for scale development. Existing scales for measuring workplace well-being along various dimensions are compiled in tabular form for researchers. The outcome of the study is a movement from general workplace well-being to sustainable workplace well-being as a new construct postulated in the purview of the triplebottom-line approach of sustainable business strategy. Senior management and HR functionaries will get benefit by examining their workplace well-being strategy and practices along with their sustainability agenda. This study has made important theoretical and methodological contributions to the literature on sustainable workplace well-being.