Corporate Culture at the Root of Organizational Health and Employee Wellness

A significant percentage of employees’ daytime is spent in the workplace. The workplace can, therefore, promote employee mental well-being or become a source of mental health problems. Of about 60% of the world’s population are currently in work, 15% of working-age adults or one out of eight have mental health challenges. Among the mental health issues, depression and anxiety cost the global economy US$ 1 trillion annually. The impact of the heightened mental health challenges has reduced productivity. ?Factors contributing to mental health challenges in the workplace have been identified to include excessive workload, long working hours, lack of control over job design or workload, poor working conditions, financial pressures, violence, harassment and discriminatory practices, unfair and inequitable reward systems, poor task definition and bad organizational culture.

The above are the dimensions of well-being. Of the four dimensions, emotional well-being is critical to the others. An emotional wreck cannot be stable enough to pay attention to physical, social and financial well-being. This is why paying attention to mental health is critical in the workplace. Professionals spend a huge amount of time at work and most people define success by how well work is going or how well they are doing professionally. Can we dispute this? Maybe not. When employees are distressed at work, largely their entire well-being is disturbed because societal recognition and other factors that boost human ego are mostly associated with the work that humans do. When a man or woman drives out in an exquisite car, they are honoured or respected. When people live in their dream houses, they feel fulfilled. When they can afford the vacations and trips around the world, while also making donations to different foundations, humans find fulfilment. On this basis, people hold their source or sources of income dear as life itself. It is on this grounds that it is important to pay attention to wellness in the workplace.

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