Abstract
Evolving research has increasingly recognized the crucial role of workers’ well-being in contributing to organizational effectiveness and survival, also studying the different factors that can influence it. This paper explores how the construct of living and working together in organizations (LWTO) can face two current organizational challenges in terms of well-being: 1. keeping a balance between performance and organizational quality of life; 2. managing the relationship with others’ differences. Thus, LTWO is understood as the possibility (or absence) of a good exchange between workers (identity and otherness), related to a clear and shared work purpose within a specific organizational culture of difference that allows diversity of expression through generative conflict. We tested our model using the exploratory structural equation modeling methodology with EQS-6.3. Our results show how well-being is in fact influenced by LWTO and highlights in particular the central role played by work purpose.
Highlights
Well-being is a classic, challenging, and relevant topic; research on well-being is rich and substantial [1,2,3,4]
Through LTWO, we can approach the study of professional well-being by connecting it to different dimensions of organizational life
Because it provides the opportunity to experience the professional dimension in terms of continuity and personal commitment, well-being is a prerequisite for organizational effectiveness and survival
Summary
Well-being is a classic, challenging, and relevant topic; research on well-being is rich and substantial [1,2,3,4]. How people feel in organizations can be a key point, with regard to the consequences of work-related stress on professionals and for the survival and growth of the organization itself [2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19]. When talking about well-being, if we look at the current debate, we can see many studies with a complex approach to the study of this topic and some big questions still to be debated and on which we are going to insert our proposal. Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations
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