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Benefits of Wise Organizations on Employees’ Well-Being: A Comparison of Younger and Older Workers
Research has shown a positive relation between personal wisdom and well-being, particularly in old age. Yet, it is unknown whether wisdom in the workplace also has a positive impact on workers’ well-being. We created a wise organization index for nine organizations based on 74 to 390 average employe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8681725/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.3283 |
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description | Research has shown a positive relation between personal wisdom and well-being, particularly in old age. Yet, it is unknown whether wisdom in the workplace also has a positive impact on workers’ well-being. We created a wise organization index for nine organizations based on 74 to 390 average employees’ ratings of perceived flexibility at work, work opportunities for training and development, satisfaction with work benefits, absence of time pressure at work, work-life balance, job fulfillment, and job security. We predicted a stronger relation of wise organization on well-being for older workers (N=269; age range 50-74, M=56.08, SD=5.04) than for younger workers (N=552; age range 19-49, M=35.10, SD=8.17) who can more easily change jobs. Results of multigroup analyses in LISREL 9.30 showed that the wise organization index had significant indirect effects on employees’ physical and subjective well-being at the second wave of data collection, mediated by employees’ perception of wise (fair and supportive) leadership assessed six months earlier and overall work satisfaction (career as calling, satisfaction with career progress, enthusiasm at work, and great workplace) at Wave 2. Contrary to expectations, the effects were not statistically different between the two age groups. However, physical well-being had a statistically stronger association with subjective well-being among younger rather than older workers, possibly indicating a positive health selection effect in the older age group. It appears that wise organizations encourage wise leadership and enable workers to work longer by contributing to their work-related, physical, and subjective well-being. |
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spelling | pubmed-86817252021-12-17 Benefits of Wise Organizations on Employees’ Well-Being: A Comparison of Younger and Older Workers Ardelt, Monika Sharma, Bhavna Innov Aging Abstracts Research has shown a positive relation between personal wisdom and well-being, particularly in old age. Yet, it is unknown whether wisdom in the workplace also has a positive impact on workers’ well-being. We created a wise organization index for nine organizations based on 74 to 390 average employees’ ratings of perceived flexibility at work, work opportunities for training and development, satisfaction with work benefits, absence of time pressure at work, work-life balance, job fulfillment, and job security. We predicted a stronger relation of wise organization on well-being for older workers (N=269; age range 50-74, M=56.08, SD=5.04) than for younger workers (N=552; age range 19-49, M=35.10, SD=8.17) who can more easily change jobs. Results of multigroup analyses in LISREL 9.30 showed that the wise organization index had significant indirect effects on employees’ physical and subjective well-being at the second wave of data collection, mediated by employees’ perception of wise (fair and supportive) leadership assessed six months earlier and overall work satisfaction (career as calling, satisfaction with career progress, enthusiasm at work, and great workplace) at Wave 2. Contrary to expectations, the effects were not statistically different between the two age groups. However, physical well-being had a statistically stronger association with subjective well-being among younger rather than older workers, possibly indicating a positive health selection effect in the older age group. It appears that wise organizations encourage wise leadership and enable workers to work longer by contributing to their work-related, physical, and subjective well-being. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8681725/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.3283 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Ardelt, Monika Sharma, Bhavna Benefits of Wise Organizations on Employees’ Well-Being: A Comparison of Younger and Older Workers |
title | Benefits of Wise Organizations on Employees’ Well-Being: A Comparison of Younger and Older Workers |
title_full | Benefits of Wise Organizations on Employees’ Well-Being: A Comparison of Younger and Older Workers |
title_fullStr | Benefits of Wise Organizations on Employees’ Well-Being: A Comparison of Younger and Older Workers |
title_full_unstemmed | Benefits of Wise Organizations on Employees’ Well-Being: A Comparison of Younger and Older Workers |
title_short | Benefits of Wise Organizations on Employees’ Well-Being: A Comparison of Younger and Older Workers |
title_sort | benefits of wise organizations on employees’ well-being: a comparison of younger and older workers |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8681725/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.3283 |
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