Building healthier workplaces: evidence-based implications for organisations and employees

Join our Organisational Behaviour seminar

Speaker: Professor Bonnie Hayden-Cheng, City University of Hong Kong

About the seminar topic

Organisations today are confronting unprecedented levels of employee stress and anxiety, heightening the urgency of building workplaces that support human sustainability. In this presentation, I share findings from a multi-study research programme, spanning conceptual and empirical work and drawing on samples ranging from the Canadian police force to UK postal workers, that examines how organisations and employees can cultivate healthier work environments. Across 5 studies, I address core questions:

• How can workplace anxiety benefit employee performance?
• How can its harmful effects on performance be mitigated?
• Shifting the lens from employees to their social context, how do supervisors and peers perceive employees who express anxiety at work, and how do these perceptions shape the behaviours directed toward them?
• Finally, what can leaders do to foster healthier workplaces?

Together, this programme of research opens new avenues for rethinking how we design work that sustains human potential and well-being.

Speaker bio

Professor Bonnie Hayden Cheng is Head of the Department of Management at City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include corporate wellness, workplace anxiety, work recovery, proactivity and leadership.

Her work has been published in Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and Personnel Psychology.

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