The COVID 19 pandemic has led to a profound review of how our health and wellbeing depend on the quality of our psychosocial environment. Coping with this emergency has been both an important source of suffering and difficulties but also innovative strategies for collective resilience. In this sense, our organizational sphere has an evident role. Our daily life occurs in groups, partners, friends, families, neighborhoods, companies, institutions. Hence, labor, leisure and voluntary entities are an obligatory reference for health promotion.
The development of social capital as the structure and nature of the links that individuals and social organizations establish among themselves, has several benefits for both individuals and communities (for example, educational and occupational achievement, physical, mental, social and environmental health, access to the labor market, social mobility, positive community interactions, etc.). In relation to occupational health promotion, activities aimed at caring for the health and wellbeing of employees contribute to the creation of a socially responsible company. Workers who improve their health with these types of programs increase their work commitment and therefore productivity. Workers and company directors agree to act in both their own interest and in the interest of the company, creating a win-win situation.
This research is framed within the Health priority of the Call 2021 Knowledge Generation Projects. For the World Health Organization, promoting and protecting health is essential for human well-being and sustained economic and social development. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) mark us the priority lines of action in sustainable development, and specifically SDG 3 (Health and Wellbeing) presents a direct relationship with our project.
The objective of this research topic is to shed new light to the following questions about the close connection of our social network with our personal and organizational well-being: What factors does the strengthening of social capital in our organizations depend on? What responsibility do organizations have in their development? How does social capital influences people's health and well-being and what dimensions does it specifically affect? How do our needs for organizational relationships and social networks change throughout the life cycle and in diverse groups? What good organizational practices we have to improve our social capital? With what indicators do we evaluate these practices?
We raise these research topics from the need to combine different approaches and methodologies. Organizational quality of life and social capital can be systematized from qualitative, quantitative and mixed strategies, from the description of the state of the art and research to case studies, empirical, longitudinal, etc. Our proposal is especially open to studies that provide information on political applications and organizational interventions in the promotion of integral health.
The COVID 19 pandemic has led to a profound review of how our health and wellbeing depend on the quality of our psychosocial environment. Coping with this emergency has been both an important source of suffering and difficulties but also innovative strategies for collective resilience. In this sense, our organizational sphere has an evident role. Our daily life occurs in groups, partners, friends, families, neighborhoods, companies, institutions. Hence, labor, leisure and voluntary entities are an obligatory reference for health promotion.
The development of social capital as the structure and nature of the links that individuals and social organizations establish among themselves, has several benefits for both individuals and communities (for example, educational and occupational achievement, physical, mental, social and environmental health, access to the labor market, social mobility, positive community interactions, etc.). In relation to occupational health promotion, activities aimed at caring for the health and wellbeing of employees contribute to the creation of a socially responsible company. Workers who improve their health with these types of programs increase their work commitment and therefore productivity. Workers and company directors agree to act in both their own interest and in the interest of the company, creating a win-win situation.
This research is framed within the Health priority of the Call 2021 Knowledge Generation Projects. For the World Health Organization, promoting and protecting health is essential for human well-being and sustained economic and social development. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) mark us the priority lines of action in sustainable development, and specifically SDG 3 (Health and Wellbeing) presents a direct relationship with our project.
The objective of this research topic is to shed new light to the following questions about the close connection of our social network with our personal and organizational well-being: What factors does the strengthening of social capital in our organizations depend on? What responsibility do organizations have in their development? How does social capital influences people's health and well-being and what dimensions does it specifically affect? How do our needs for organizational relationships and social networks change throughout the life cycle and in diverse groups? What good organizational practices we have to improve our social capital? With what indicators do we evaluate these practices?
We raise these research topics from the need to combine different approaches and methodologies. Organizational quality of life and social capital can be systematized from qualitative, quantitative and mixed strategies, from the description of the state of the art and research to case studies, empirical, longitudinal, etc. Our proposal is especially open to studies that provide information on political applications and organizational interventions in the promotion of integral health.
