Building capacity in the healthcare sector: A strengths-based approach for increasing employees' well-being and organisational resilience

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Brunetto, Yvonne
Dick, Tom
Xerri, Matthew
Cully, Ashley
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2020
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This study uses Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as a lens for informing the process for building on employees' existing wellbeing within one Australian organisation, using the ‘discovery, dreaming, designing, and achieving destiny’ process. Using POSH as a theoretical framework, we worked with a large Not-For-Profit healthcare organisation as part of the ‘discovery’ phase to identify elements of what was positive, flourishing, and life-giving in the practices of their employees. During the ‘dreaming’ process, employees' wellbeing was identified as a strength. During the ‘designing’ phase, a training program was co-designed to build on employees' existing levels of wellbeing. This paper reports outcomes as part of the ‘achieving destiny component’ of the AI process. In particular, the outcomes show that employees' knowledge of, and ability to use positive emotions increased, which is a positive first step for increasing employees' wellbeing and organisational resilience.

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Journal of Management & Organization

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26

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3

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Human resources and industrial relations

Specialist studies in education

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Management

Business & Economics

Australia

wellbeing and psychosocial risk factors

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Brunetto, Y; Dick, T; Xerri, M; Cully, A, Building capacity in the healthcare sector: A strengths-based approach for increasing employees' well-being and organisational resilience, Journal of Management & Organization, 2020, 26 (3), pp. 309-323

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