Does worker wellbeing affect workplace performance? (2014)
This paper examines the evidence regarding employee's subjective wellbeing and workplace performance. The paper aims to address measuring and defining wellbeing, employee and job characteristics that influence wellbeing in the workplace, employer practices that have the greatest positive impact on wellbeing and the evidence linking employee wellbeing and business performance. There were three stages to the research: development of a conceptual framework around subjective wellbeing, a literature review and analysis of the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Survey. The findings from the literature review and empirical analyses are discussed in addition to the implications for policy makers and employers.


