A Systematic Analysis of the Literature on Employee Psychological Well Being: Which Are the Variables That Have an Affect on It?

Abstract

Nowadays organisations value their workers as one of the most important resources, however, the effects of globalisation and high competitiveness, rapid changes in the market needs have made organisation and the workplace environment very complicated to develop into. Each day work is becoming more and more demanding, and this has generated open-wide concern regarding different illnesses and impairments affecting humans who work (Prada-Ospina, 2019). Nowadays the majority of employees face impaired motivation, satisfaction and interest. Furthermore, the COVID19 pandemic added to this phenomenon by producing detrimental effects on the individual and organisational outcomes. The purpose of this thesis is to provide a general overview of the concept of employee psychological wellbeing during the years 2019-2022 and identify the variables that during this period have positively or negatively affected it. From the results obtained, it was possible to determine which are the variables that have affected employee psychological well being positively, and which ones have affected it negatively. The results can be later on used by organisations to establish programs tailored to the enhancement of employee psychological well being. Keywords: organisations, workers, globalisation, high competitiveness, market needs, workplace environment, work demands, illnesses, impairments, motivation, satisfaction, interest, COVID19 pandemic, individual outcomes, organisational outcomes, employee psychological wellbeing, variables, enhancement