Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters: The Science Behind Employee Happiness and Organizational Performance
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The definitive account of workplace wellbeing and its key drivers, offering a fresh, data-driven perspective on the connections between happiness, productivity, and organizational success.
Most of us spend a third of our waking lives at work. Work shapes our schedules, relationships, identities, and economies―but is it actually making us happy? This crucial question is explored in depth by leading Oxford researchers Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward, who provide the richest, most comprehensive picture of workplace wellbeing yet.
In Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters, the authors clarify what workplace wellbeing is (and is not) and offer a framework for how businesses can approach and improve it. Drawing on extensive large-scale data―including the world’s largest data set on employee wellbeing, gathered in partnership with the jobs platform Indeed―the book reveals the remarkable ways in which wellbeing at work varies across workers, occupations, companies, and industries.
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve is Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Oxford, where he also directs the Wellbeing Research Centre. He is best known for his research on the economics of wellbeing which has led to new insights into the relationship between happiness and income, productivity, firm performance, and economic growth. His pioneering research is published in the leading academic journals across multiple disciplines, including Science, Nature, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Psychological Science, Management Science, Journal of Political Economy, and the British Medical Journal.
George Ward is an incoming Assistant Professor at INSEAD. He is currently the Mary Ewart Stipendiary Junior Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Oxford, and completed his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as Management Science, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, American Psychologist, Harvard Business Review, and The American Journal of Political Science.