A Study on Factors Affecting Psychological Wellbeing at Workplace

Abstract

Psychological well being in work life of organisation presents different factors for improving attitude towards work and performance of employees in organisation. The factors that make the employees psychologically unwell at workplace creates distress and also aim to reduce employee engagement and quality of performance within organisation. Previous research suggests that changes in the working conditions alone is not expected to improve the psychological conditions of employees Change of organisational culture even does not make a change in well being of employees in managing in difficult working conditions. Psychological factors such as stress, depression, health problems, loneliness etc. accounts in affecting working environment and performance of that individual. There is a casual relationship between all such factors and work life. The research tries to bring out the degree of relationship between all such factors of psychological wellbeing in organisation. The research offers findings in more precised way on basis of particular factors enhancing the psychological wellbeing at work place by having employees who are healthy and happy at work place. It creates a difference in the performance and quality of work done when the employees are high on psychological wellbeing.