Employee wellbeing: the impact on productivity and firm performance

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Christian Krekel and George Ward

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Abstract: Does having happier staff mean higher productivity and improvements in companies' bottom line? A study of over 1.8 million employees across 73 countries by Christian Krekel, George Ward and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve detects a strong positive correlation between employee wellbeing, productivity and firm performance.

Keywords: employee satisfaction; engagement; employee productivity; firm performance; wellbeing; meta-analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-07-01
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