Psychosocial factors
Psychosocial factors: how they shape well-being at work
Working conditions, depending on how they are managed, affect workplace well-being and the overall health of organizations.
What they are
What are psychosocial factors?
Psychosocial factors are the aspects of working conditions that, depending on how they are managed, can have a positive or a negative effect on workplace well-being and on the overall health of the people who make up an organization.
They also influence how well organizational processes run, with a direct effect on profitability, productivity and corporate image.
Which they are
The main psychosocial factors
Psychosocial factors turn out to be the engine every company wants to manage as well as possible in order to retain talent and earn its loyalty: they build commitment and a sense of belonging, and improve people's quality of working life and, with it, their engagement.
Working time arrangements
Working hours and shifts, how vacation is arranged, remote work, telework, options for work-life balance and so on.
Work roles
How clear work roles are across tasks, processes and procedures.
Autonomy over time and decisions
The ability to manage both your own short breaks during the working day and the way assigned tasks are distributed and ordered.
Teamwork
Coordination, communication and collaboration.
Human Resources policies
Leadership and communication styles, opportunities for promotion, conflict management and prevention protocols, whether training and information are adequate for the job, financial and emotional reward, and so on.
Relationships at work
The working climate among the people in the organization.
Work organization
Time management, resource sizing, the organizational criteria for assigning and sharing out tasks, coordination between areas, and so on.
Ergonomic conditions
The ergonomic conditions of work that shape the working environment.
Performance and usefulness
How well work equipment performs and how useful it is.
How they are measured
Two key processes to assess and improve
Observatorio de Bienestar, a workplace well-being observatory, sets out two key processes for assessing and improving workplace well-being and organizational health: first the psychosocial questionnaire, then the dashboard.
Psychosocial questionnaire
Design and validation of a psychosocial questionnaire adapted to each organization's reality, to measure its workplace well-being and organizational health.
First
Dashboard
A dashboard with psychosocial management indicators that lets you work with the information and the analyses simply and quickly, moving between the different dimensions.
Then
Demo
See how they are measured in the demo
The demo brings together the psychosocial questionnaire and the dashboard. And if you would like to talk about your organization, get in touch.