Evaluating well-being and psychosocial risks in academia: Is management the "forgotten phase"?

Bruno, Andreina; Dell'Aversana, Giuseppina; Gilardi, Silvia

In recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in attention towards promoting well-being within academic settings. In the specific context of academia, a critical issue is understanding whether the current practices for assessing and managing well-being can bridge the implementation gap and increase opportunities for creating healthy academic conditions. The paper explores the practices adopted for assessing and managing work-related stress (WRS) risks in Italian academia by referring to data from a group of Italian universities of the QoL@Work network (Quality of Life at Work in academia). The aim is to improve understanding of the factors that influence the realization of a WRS risk assessment-management pathway and how they may facilitate or hinder the transition from assessment to the implementation of interventions in the academic context. The results suggest that the assessmentmanagement pathway should prioritize the creation of organizational scaffolding to support participatory processes in order to prevent the data collected from failing to stimulate organizational change in working conditions.

WELL-being; ACADEMIA; QUALITY of work life; ORGANIZATIONAL change; WORK environment

Frontiers in Psychology, 2024, p1

1664-1078

Academic Journal

10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1349589