Mental Health in an Organisational Setting. (R-11732)

Mental health issues and depressive disorders are leading non-lethal illnesses across the world according to the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study from 2017 (James et al., 2018). However, despite these figures, Diener and Seligman (2004) state that too little attention goes towards the topic in governmental and organizational decision-making processes. Yet, it's been widely recorded that well-being has an important impact on a multitude of economic and organizational parameters such as unemployment, job turnover, job satisfaction and productivity (Faragher, Cass, & Cooper, 2005; Judge, Thoresen, Bono, & Patton, 2001; Lerner et al., 2004). Research has shown that among others job characteristics (Karasek, 1979; Stansfeld & Candy, 2006), occupation type (Johnson et al., 2005) and organisational change (Dahl, 2011) are all linked to mental health issues and employee stress. However, this topic remains largely undocumented on a large scale. In this PhD study, three studies will be conducted in order to shed light on the topic of mental well-being in different organizational settings. More specifically, it will be investigated whether M&A's, outsourcing/offshoring and type of employment contracts are linked with mental health issues and employee stress.

Keywords:Employee well-being, International business, Strategic management

Disciplines:Business management, Human resource management, International management, Organisational management, Strategic management