The Challenges Of Workplace Wellbeing In Organizations

With the rise of businesses, how to build good wellbeing has become a problem for the managers. Developing reactivate wellbeing challenge in an organisation delivers an increase in workplace productivity, greater levels of engagement and more importantly, a happier workforce. Health and wellbeing also has a direct impact on the loyalty employees feel towards their employer. However, living in a competitive environment, organisations currently are facing a diverse variety of challenges that need to be addressed relating to the wellbeing of their employees. This reflection will discuss the reason of workplace wellbeing issuing challenges for managers and difficulties on coping with them, drawing on my group’s examples and analysis by two other

Therefore, high level of stress is a major challenge for managers to handle. A significant issue I have not addressed is that employees in both big and small companies are suffering from stress and pressure. According to two groups in my tutorial, they found that employees in both PG and DHL need to start work early and leave the office in the late hours, so they do not have enough time for other leisure activities and family commitments (group 2). Meanwhile, we all found that organizational change could be a significant issue in every industry. Organizational change occurs as a reaction to an ever-changing environment. This change can happen for several reasons, including financial concerns, a merger or acquisition, expanding markets, accommodating growth or a simple shift in business model. Whatever the reason, change is almost always difficult for employees. This increases difficulty of management on employee commitment, communication and job training, as leader behaviour is crucial during organizational change when leaders provide a vision of the change, give direct support to employees and model appropriate

Managers nowadays should pay more attention on employee’s mental health, as it has direct impact on employees wellbeing which result in different levels of performance and achievement. This understanding is important in providing suggestions to managers, and encourages them to rearrange inappropriate job distribution and describe job in a clear way so that staff could know the company expectations on their work. Having realised the negative effects of stress, I found in group 2 report that stress can also be understood as normal issues in our life and can be positive in a way to meet or achieve our challenges. It is a great motivating force and cognitive enhancer that can improve ourselves with high desire and willpower. As for the big influences of organisational change, they will change what I used to think. Both managers and employees need to take active action to react under the changing environment. Hence, they can try to find the most practical way to achieve the production of organisation and develop the ability to control their behaviour with the rights and