ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some clarity for organizations considering ways to enhance workplace wellbeing. It develops a definition of workplace wellbeing building on research regarding the affective circumplex. The chapter focuses on demands, resources, and self-regulation to offer a Dynamic Workplace Wellbeing model focused on explaining four manifestations of workplace wellbeing: engagement, workaholism, exhaustion, and satisfaction. It discusses how workplace wellbeing is influenced by specific external resources: tangible support (psychologically healthy workplace practices), emotional support (psychosocial safety climate), and need fulfillment (Self-Determination Theory). The chapter offers a practical application of various aspects of the Dynamic Workplace Wellbeing model through the lens of organizations that have been recognized through the American Psychological Association (APA's) Psychologically Healthy Workplace Program and a case example of a specific organization. In the context of workplace wellbeing, psychosocial safety climate represents a critical contextual variable that can influence employee utilization of various psychologically healthy work-place practices and the resulting experience of workplace wellbeing.
