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The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Wellbeing is a comprehensive and cutting-edge work providing the latest insights into a range of perspectives on organizational wellbeing, as well as highlighting global wellbeing issues and exploring new contexts. Topics covered include: digital working and social media, LGBTQIA+ identifications and work, suicide at work, refugee workers, and mental health. A multi- and inter-disciplinary work, this handbook embraces ideas and empirical work from a range of fields including psychology, business and management, economics, and science. This handbook draws together current knowledge whilst also outlining emerging issues and directions, making this an invaluable resource for students and researchers spanning a wide array of disciplines. Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives; Part 2: International Issues and Contexts; Part 3: Developing Organizational Wellbeing; and Part 4: Emerging Issues and Directions.
Social Capital and Wellbeing: The Role of Work and Family Relations across Cultures
Social Capital and Wellbeing: The Role of Work and Family Relations across Cultures
Introduction
Wellbeing and happiness, as the subjective appreciation of individual wellbeing (Veenhoven, 1984), have always been associated with social relations. Several studies have emphasized the importance of close relationships with other people for the pursuit of happiness and life satisfaction (see, for example, Argyle, 2002; Veenhoven, 1999). The organizational literature has initially approached the topic of happiness by investigating the construct of job satisfaction (see, for instance, Brief, 1998; Cranny et al., 1992), to later broaden the research ...
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