Positive Psychology: An Innovative Approach for Managing Well-Being at the Workplace

Abstract

The current economic tumult of recession, job compression, layoffs, and other cost-cutting measures may escalate job insecurity and stress among workers. These stress-related factors result in fallouts of extended shift hours, lack of rest, and work overload, and ultimately lead to job dissatisfaction among employees. Employees; facing work pressure, unexpected job demands, extended working hours, and job insecurity, which adversely affect their well-being and impacting job satisfaction. Such stressful disruption in Job may have an adverse effect on the health of employees which eventually effect the organisation as a whole. This paper explores the role of Positive Psychology, focusing on strengths, engagement, and meaningful work to create positive and congenial working environment that satisfy organisational and individual goals. This paper reviews the definition and consequences of implementing positive psychology for generating happiness through insights from the literature The PERMA model is being used as a theoretical framework in the research to assess its impact on employee satisfaction and subjective well-being. Furthermore, practical applications and research gaps are discussed, with future studies to explore the impact of Positive Psychology interventions in workplace settings.