Pending Issues on Professionals’ Well-Being: The Living and Working Together in Organization Perspective

Diletta Gazzaroli and Caterina Gozzoli
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Diletta Gazzaroli: Faculty of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 20123 Milano, Italy
Caterina Gozzoli: Faculty of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 20123 Milano, Italy

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 12, 1-15

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.

Keywords: professional well-being; organizational well-being; living and working together; diversity; work purpose (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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