Employees’ psychological health and the impact of flexible working arrangements
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Timms, Carolyn
Brough, Paula
Chan, Xi Wen Carys
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2020
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This chapter discusses the construct of psychological health and its relationship with enhanced organisational productivity. The term psychological health describes optimum human functioning and experience. Well recognised signs of optimum functioning include self- motivation, curiosity and active involvement in the social environment, positive affect, happiness, flourishing/thriving, ingenuity, and resilience. Flexible working arrangements are organisational strategies devised to assist workers in managing their disparate responsibilities. The ability for some workers to conduct their work from their local café, home or ...
View more >This chapter discusses the construct of psychological health and its relationship with enhanced organisational productivity. The term psychological health describes optimum human functioning and experience. Well recognised signs of optimum functioning include self- motivation, curiosity and active involvement in the social environment, positive affect, happiness, flourishing/thriving, ingenuity, and resilience. Flexible working arrangements are organisational strategies devised to assist workers in managing their disparate responsibilities. The ability for some workers to conduct their work from their local café, home or shopping mall was unimaginable less than one generation ago. These benefits primarily consist of increased motivation, engagement, creativity, and service by employees, resulting in enhanced productivity.
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View more >This chapter discusses the construct of psychological health and its relationship with enhanced organisational productivity. The term psychological health describes optimum human functioning and experience. Well recognised signs of optimum functioning include self- motivation, curiosity and active involvement in the social environment, positive affect, happiness, flourishing/thriving, ingenuity, and resilience. Flexible working arrangements are organisational strategies devised to assist workers in managing their disparate responsibilities. The ability for some workers to conduct their work from their local café, home or shopping mall was unimaginable less than one generation ago. These benefits primarily consist of increased motivation, engagement, creativity, and service by employees, resulting in enhanced productivity.
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Book Title
Flexible Work: Designing Our Healthier Future Lives
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© 2020 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Flexible Work: Designing Our Healthier Future Lives on 27 March 2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429326585-5
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Psychology