Enhancing Workplace Well-Being: Employee Perspective

The primary purpose of the research is to analyze the factors associated with the nurses’ Eudaimonic Workplace Well-being. Firstly, the study examines the influence of shared values on eudaimonic workplace well-being, and the potential for perceived organizational justice and emotional exhaustion to act as mediators in this relationship. Also, the research analyses the effect of perceived organizational support on eudaimonic workplace well-being, while exploring how emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction serve as mediators in this relationship. Using data collected from three hundred nurses in Turkish healthcare institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic (Male=113, Female=187). The age of participants ranged from 19 to 58 and the average age was 34. The snowball sampling method was used to form our sample and self-administered surveys that could be completed online were delivered to the sampled nurses. Our analysis using Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) supported the expected relationship between shared values and eudaimonic workplace well-being as well as the mediating role of perceived overall justice and emotional exhaustion. We also show a serial mediation where perceived organizational support is related to emotional exhaustion which in turn negatively related to job satisfaction which subsequently related to higher levels of eudaimonic workplace well-being. The present study contributes to nursing and management literature by examining antecedents of eudaimonic well-being. Furthermore, our findings provide implications for the mental health of frontline employees in health organizations to have higher levels of eudaimonic well-being which is especially important in times of intense pressure such as the period during the COVID-19 pandemic.