Management Perspectives

Happy employees are engaged employees, resulting in increased productivity as well as lower absenteeism from work.

Traditionally, followers have been viewed as passive supporters, merely executing the directives of their leaders. However, this perspective is increasingly being challenged. The modern organizational landscape recognises that followers are not just subordinates; they are active participants who significantly influence organizational success.

A sense of well-being—whatever that means to us—results in a number of benefits with research showing greater efficiency, more effective interpersonal interactions and taking of opportunities, greater motivation, and even greater cognitive flexibility (resulting in better problem solving and creativity).

How do we achieve both the minimization of variability crucial to reliability and the creation of a culture that values the ‘healthy mistakes’ that have been known to drive innovation, psychological safety and competitiveness?