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The observation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, we have seen an increase in occupational pathologies and psychosocial risks, says Coutrot (2018, p. 5) According to Gollac and Bodier (2011, p. 31), psychosocial risks are all “risks to mental, physical and social health, generated by employment conditions and organizational and relational factors likely to interact with mental functioning”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demands of profitability, the increase in work rhythms and cadences or the deterioration of physical working conditions due to globalization according to Gollac (2005) are not without consequences on the health of workers. According to the study by Miquet-Marty et al. (2019, p. 9-10), 52% of employees perceive a deterioration in well-being at work in France and 9% of employees negatively judge their own well-being at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is well-being?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long considered to be the absence of disease, psychological health has recently been conceptualized in a two-dimensional way, with a negative pole and a positive pole (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000). Psychological health encompasses the absence of distress on the one hand and the presence of well-being on the other hand (Achilles, 2003).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Ryff and Singer (2000), well-being refers to the subjective assessments that individuals make of their quality of life based on their personal experiences, their relationships, their feelings and their general functioning. In the scientific literature, there are two approaches to well-being inspired by the work of ancient philosophers on happiness: the hedonic approach and the eudemonic approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some authors consider well-being to be a pleasure or satisfaction (Kahneman et al., 2004). In this hedonic approach to well-being, human activity is motivated by the quest for happiness. The studies of Diener et al. (1999) on hedonic well-being have highlighted the notion of subjective well-being. According to him, this construct refers to experiencing many pleasant affects, few unpleasant affects and feeling great personal satisfaction when you reach your goals. Subjective well-being includes both emotional, positive and negative components, but also cognitive components through life satisfaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the hedonic approach is the most studied, many authors consider well-being as a more complex concept than just the achievement of happiness. In the eudemonic approach, well-being refers to self-fulfillment rather than the search for pleasure. The realization of one’s potential and self-determination are essential elements (Kahneman, Diener and Schwarz, 1999). The concept at the heart of this approach is psychological well-being. Through this concept, the authors are interested in the psychological functioning of individuals and in understanding how they interact with their environment (Ryff, 1989).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the literature, these two approaches to well-being are often opposed but recent studies have shown the close links between subjective well-being and psychological well-being (Kashdan et al., 2008; Kopperud & Vitters\u00f8, 2008; Waterman et al., 2008). A new approach attempts to bring together these two built through psychological development. According to Huppert and So (2013), it is a state simultaneously composed of constituent elements of subjective and psychological well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Define well-being at work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well-being has long been considered a generic construct, stable across the different areas of life (Diener, 1984). Yet according to V\u00e9ronique Dagenais-Desmarais (P 36, 2010): “work is a field of life with its own challenges, which makes it a distinct sphere of experience in which the individual lives a unique experience.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workers spend a large part of their waking time at work, it occupies an essential place in their lives (Dagenais-Desmarais, 2010). Also, when paid, work allows individuals to provide for primary needs (May et al., 2004) and to define their identity (Garner et al., 2006). The work also allows you to develop skills, have social relationships and use your potential (Brun et al., 2003). As a result, well-being at work appears as a separate concept (Bi\u00e9try and Creusier, 2013) which includes, on the one hand, positive physical and psychological manifestations at work, and on the other hand, experiences related to work (Danna and Griffin, 1999).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The positive effects of well-being at work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research has shown that the psychological development of the workforce was positively correlated with performance (Cropanzano & Wright, 1999). When the workforce is fulfilled, profitability, productivity and profits increase and the workforce is more satisfied at work (Harter et al., 2002). Fulfilled workers receive better social support from their colleagues and supervisors and are more autonomous (Staw et al., 1994). Employees also adopt more organizational citizenship behaviors (Lee & Allen, 2002). Some authors such as Lyubomirsky et al. (2005) have also shown the positive effect of the development of the workforce on creativity, commitment to work and health. It is therefore in the interest of organizations to improve the well-being of employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well-being at work in the context of cultural diversity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the internationalization of companies and the increase in international mobility of the workforce, workplaces are increasingly diversified in terms of nationalities and cultures of workers. These individuals are bearers of value systems and have other models of behavior, other languages. For Plivard (2014), culture shapes the way we perceive the world. It presents itself as a reference framework that gives meaning to information in the social environment. Each individual living in a given place acquires a different culture from that of an individual living in another place. This means that individuals have their own cultural codes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Redfield et al. (1936), direct contacts between groups of individuals from different cultures can lead to changes in the cultural patterns of one or both groups, this is acculturation. In order to manage this cultural disparity, individuals use adaptation strategies. Nevertheless, according to Berry’s work (1996), when individuals are faced with adaptation difficulties, it can lead to a state of acculturation stress. This stress is characterized by states of confusion, uncertainty, depression, or anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This can cause difficulties within work teams and give rise to communication problems (Loth, 2006), misunderstandings (Bolat et al., 2017) or organizational conflicts according to Hopkins et al. (1994). This intercultural encounter can also lead to a decrease in trust within work teams (Letki, 2008), a reduction in group cohesion (King et al., 2009) and a high level of inconsistency between values (Hopkins et al., 1994) and it can reinforce the effect of discrimination (King et al., 2012). Even if cultural diversity can threaten the psychological well-being of employees, some authors have shown that this meeting can have positive effects on decision-making and the generation of ideas (Milliken & Martins, 1996).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make cultural diversity a real lever of well-being at work, Vincent Calvez (2009) advises to develop the intercultural skills of the workforce and to fight against discrimination. According to Rockstuhl et al. (2012), understanding cultural differences and the ability to overcome them are essential elements for having effective intercultural interactions. Thanks to a proactive approach to understanding the other, recognizing his differences and valuing them and a reactive approach whose goal is to reduce dysfunctions related to diversity, it is possible to improve the well-being of employees and their productivity (Cornet & El Abboubi, 2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article written by In\u00e8s Seghiouer, active member of Rezalliance and Master’s student in Occupational Psychology.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The observation In recent years, we have seen an increase in occupational pathologies and psychosocial risks, says Coutrot (2018, p. 5) According to Gollac and Bodier (2011, p. 31), psychosocial risks are all “risks to mental, physical and social health, generated by employment conditions and organizational and relational factors likely to interact with mental functioning”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":235984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rezalliance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rezalliance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rezalliance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rezalliance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rezalliance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rezalliance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235938,"href":"https:\/\/rezalliance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235937\/revisions\/235938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rezalliance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rezalliance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rezalliance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rezalliance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}