Abstract

This paper produces a preliminary version of a strategic framework for managing employee flourishing. ‘Flourishing’, a term from positive psychology, describes the experience of ‘the good life’. Providing this experience benefits employees. It also motivates them to sustain the enterprise that provides it. This positions employee flourishing as a strategy for long-term enterprise performance, a key concern of industrial engineering. The framework incorporates a systems approach and literature from a variety of bodies of knowledge, including organisational behaviour and human resource management. The framework includes a process, tools, and elements that assist enterprises to manage employee flourishing.

Highlights

  • The guiding mandate of industrial engineering is to improve enterprise performance over time [1]

  • The contents of positive psychology are characterised by Csikszentmihalyi [2] as dealing with ‘a life worth living’, and by Seligman [3] as the formulation and building of ‘the good life’

  • We propose the field of human resource management (HRM) as relevant to the development of such a programme

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Summary

11 Nov 2016

# The author was enrolled for an M. ‘Flourishing’, a term from positive psychology, describes the experience of ‘the good life’. It motivates them to sustain the enterprise that provides it This positions employee flourishing as a strategy for long-term enterprise performance, a key concern of industrial engineering. The framework includes a process, tools, and elements that assist enterprises to manage employee flourishing. Hierdie artikel skep ’n voorlopige weergawe van ’n strategiese raamwerk vir die bestuur van werknemerflorering. ‘flourishing’), is ’n begrip uit die positiewe sielkunde wat ervaring van ‘die goeie lewe’ omskryf. Werknemers word gemotiveer om die onderneming te onderhou en uit te bou. ’n Proses word daar gestel wat ondernemings van die nodige toerusting en kennis vir die bestuur van werknemerflorering te voorsien Die raamwerk omvat ’n stelselbenadering en inkorporeer literatuur uit verskeie kennisgebiede, insluitende organisatoriese gedrag, en menslike hulpbronbestuur. ’n Proses word daar gestel wat ondernemings van die nodige toerusting en kennis vir die bestuur van werknemerflorering te voorsien

INTRODUCTION
The high regard for happiness
An objective view of the good life
The faltering development of flourishing
Problem statement and research purpose
Research objectives and methodology
Method
The definition of design requirements
A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK AS THE OBJECTIVE
EFSF DESIGN REQUIREMENTS
EFSF DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY
DESIGN CONCEPT
INITIAL DESIGN OPTIMISATION
Quadrant 1
Quadrant 1 run-through updates
Quadrant 2
Quadrant 3
Intentional activity towards flourishing
Needs-based activity
Quadrant 3 run-through updates
Quadrant 4
A practical example of an element of an employee-flourishing programme
Quadrant 4 run-through updates
Findings
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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