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Furthermore, some aspects are commonly measured, and measured very well, while other important components of overall wellbeing at work have been largely ignored. This suggests considerable scope to broaden the ways we think about and assess wellbeing at work. Subjective Wellbeing at Work Subjective wellbeing includes positive attitudinal judgments as well as the experience of positive and negative affect. Workplace approaches to each of these will be discussed in turn. Satisfaction and related attitudes.

We will now turn to a discussion of wellbeing in the workplace, and consider how ideas from the general wellbeing literature might inform our understanding of wellbeing at work. Wellbeing at Work Organizational scholars have been measuring aspects of satisfaction, happiness, or wellbeing at work for nearly a century. A great number of concepts might be construed as belonging to the family of wellbeing constructs, including job satisfaction, job involvement, affective organizational commitment, work engagement, positive and negative emotions and moods at work, flow states, intrinsic motivation, thriving, and vigor (Fisher, 2010).

Above indicators of happiness, a complete measure should also assess aspects of both eudaimonic and social wellbeing. Broad measures of wellbeing will inherently tap a variety of different experiences and might look quite messy to those accustomed to tidy, singlefactor measures. 2 do not appear to exist at this point in time. However, there are a few existing scales that could be a starting point for building such a measure. One option for researchers wanting an overall wellbeing at work measure would be to modify the Diener et al.