Developing a Model of Employee Well-being Antecedents through an Integrated Literature Review

Abstract

Employee well-being affects not only employees themselves but also the performance of the whole organization. The purpose of this research was to review the current literature on the antecedents of employee well-being and to integrate the findings on employee well-being antecedents into a multilevel model. We examined the definitions of employee well-being in multiple disciplines and how it has been conceptualized in the literature. We also identified the antecedents and presented a framework systematically classifying the wide array of employee well-being antecedents, which resulted in a proposed model integrating antecedents of employee well-being that have been identified in the literature. A total of 54 studies of employee welll-being published in academic journals were selected, and following five areas were suggested: individual employee's psychological and physical trait, family/social support, work/home system, organizational resources and industry and culture.