Your work place will have a bearing on your health. That is what researchers said. If the team leader and boss can accomodate you properly and take you forward then you will be in a good state of mind and health.
We spend almost one third of the day in our respective workplaces, so the people or the organization is very much associated with better health and lower burnout.
“Leaders play a key role in shaping a sense of group identity in the workplace,” Steffens said, adding, “and this is important not only for team performance but also for the mental and physical health of employees.”
In a new meta-analysis covering 58 studies and more than 19,000 people across the globe, it is said that though many people assume that finding the right job that fits your personality and skills is the key to a healthy work life, health at work is determined to a large extent by our social relationships in the workplace and more particularly, the social groups we form there.
Previous studies on the relationships between people and their workplaces focus on issues of satisfaction, motivation, and performance in organizations, but much less on health and well-being.
“This study is the first large-scale analysis showing that organizational identification is related to better health,” said lead researcher Dr. Niklas Steffens. “These results show that both performance and health are enhanced to the extent that workplaces provide people with a sense of ‘we’ and ‘us.'”
While the type of job was not a significant factor in the link between social identification and health benefits, several factors influenced the relationship. “Social identification contributes to both psychological and physiological health, but the health benefits are stronger for psychological health,” said Steffens.
The positive psychological benefit may stem from the support provided by the work group but also the meaning and purpose that people derive from membership in social groups.
“We are less burnt out and have greater well-being when our team and our organization provide us with a sense of belonging and community, when it gives us a sense of ‘we-ness,'” summarized Steffens.
