We’re reimagining what sustainability and health mean for business success. We’re challenging the notion that sustainability means predominately a concern over environmental impacts with less attention to the people side. And we’re also moving away from focusing on negating harm toward a more positive approach to creating a more sustainable and healthier future.
Today’s challenge for corporations is to effectively transition from a shareholder capitalist system to a stakeholder capitalist system. Central to this new paradigm are employees, and also communities, consumers, investors, and society at large. How can businesses invest in their stakeholders to help their corporate strategies flourish?
Work offers a tremendous arena for promoting thriving. Studies show that work can fill human needs for financial security, meaning and purpose, self-efficacy, learning and mastery, social connection, mental and physical health, in addition to health care. We’re reimagining sustainability to be reflective of business’s impact on people and not just the environment.
PUBLICATIONS
Eric N. Fung, Richard G. Cowden, Ying Chen, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Piotr Bialowolski, Matthew T. Lee, Eileen McNeely and Tyler J. VanderWeele. Prospective associations of multidimensional well-being with work distraction and job satisfaction: a two-wave study of US employees Frontiers in Psychology (2024).
Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Richard G. Cowden, Kaye V. Cook, Piotr Bialowolski, Andrea Ortega Bechara, Zhuo Job Chen, Ni Made Taganing Kurniati, Christiany Suwartono, Eileen McNeely and Tyler J. VanderWeele. Associations of orientation to promote good in challenging situations with distress and well-being: Multi-study evidence from three non-western longitudinal samples. European Journal of Social Psychology (2023).
Piotr Bialowolski, Matthew T. Lee, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Ying Chen, Richard G. Cowden, Eileen McNeely and Tyler J. VanderWeele. Differences in Multi-Dimensional Well-being Among Factory Workers: Evidence from Six Countries. Applied Research in Quality of Life (2023).
Ying Chen, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Matthew T. Lee, Piotr Bialowolski, Richard G. Cowden, Eileen McNeely and Tyler J. VanderWeele. Working from home and subsequent work outcomes: Pre-pandemic evidence. PLOS ONE (2023).
Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Matthew T. Lee, Richard G. Cowden, Piotr Bialowolski, Ying Chen, Tyler J. VanderWeele and Eileen McNeely. Psychological caring climate at work, mental health well-being, and work-related outcomes: Evidence from a longitudinal study and health insurance data. Social Science & Medicine (2023).
Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Matthew T. Lee, Piotr Bialowolski, Eileen McNeely, Ying Chen, Richard G. Cowden and Tyler J. VanderWeele. Associations between the Importance of Well-Being Domains and the Subsequent Experience of Well-Being. Sustainability (2022).
Richard G. Cowden, Andrew J. Seidman, Charlotte Duffee, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Eileen McNeely and Tyler J. VanderWeele. Associations of suffering with facets of health and well-being among working adults: longitudinal evidence from two samples. Scientific Reports (2022).
Ying Chen, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Matthew T. Lee, Piotr Bialowolski, Eileen McNeely, & Tyler J. VanderWeele. Longitudinal associations between domains of flourishing. Scientific Reports (2022).
Matthew T. Lee, Eileen McNeely, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Karen A. Ryan, Kay D. Mooney, Richard G. Cowden, and Tyler J. VanderWeele. Demographic Predictors of Complete Well-being. BMC Public Health (2022).
Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Matthew T. Lee, Piotr Bialowolski, Ying Chen, Tyler J. VanderWeele and Eileen McNeely. Prospective associations between strengths of moral character and health: longitudinal evidence from survey and insurance claims data. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (2022).
J. Höltge, R.G. Cowden, Matthew T. Lee, A. O. Bechara, S. Joynt, S. Kamble, V.V Khalanskyi, L. Shtanko, N.M.T. Kurniati, S. Tymchenko, V.L. Voytenko, E. McNeely, and T.J. VanderWeele. A systems perspective on human flourishing: Exploring cross-country similarities and differences of a multisystemic flourishing network. The Journal of Positive Psychology (2022).
Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Piotr Bialowolski, Matthew T. Lee, Ying Chen, Tyler J. VanderWeele and Eileen McNeely. Prospective Associations Between Social Connectedness and Mental Health. Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey and Health Insurance Claims Data. International Journal of Public Health (2022).
McNeely, Eileen. Business as a platform for human flourishing: now what do we do with that? Emerald Publishing (2022).
Jardim, Heloisa. (2022). Let’s be more intentional about building flourishing work communities as an on-ramp for building a better society. Emerald Publishing (2022).
Weziak‐Bialowolska, D. (2022). Commentary on “The protective effects of wellbeing and flourishing on long-term mental health risk”. SSM – Mental Health. 2, 135907 (2022).
Weziak‐Bialowolska, D., Bialowolski, P., Niemiec, R.M., Being good, doing good: The role of honesty and integrity for health. Social Science and Medicine. 291, 114494 (2021).
Weziak-Bialowolska, D., & Bialowolski, P. (2021). Associations of recognition at work with subsequent health and quality of life among older working adults, International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health (2021).
Bialowolski, P., Weziak-Bialowolska, D., Lee, M. T., Chen, Y., VanderWeele, T. J., & McNeely, E. The role of financial conditions for physical and mental health. Evidence from a longitudinal survey and insurance claims data. Social Science & Medicine (2021).
Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Piotr Bialowolski, Matthew T. Lee, Ying Chen, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Eileen McNeely. Psychometric Properties of Flourishing Scales From a Comprehensive Well-Being Assessment. Frontiers in Psychology (2021).
Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Piotr Bialowolski and Tyler J. VanderWeele. Character Strengths Involving an Orientation to Promote Good Can Help Your Health and Well-Being. Evidence From two Longitudinal Studies. American Journal of Health Promotion (2020).
VanderWeele TJ, Trudel-Fitzgerald C, Allin P, Farrelly C, Fletcher G, Frederick DE, Hall J, Helliwell, John F., Kim, Eric S., Lauinger, William A., Lee, Matthew T., Lyubomirsky, Sonja, Margolis, Seth, McNeely, Eileen, Messer, Neil, Tay, Louis, Viswanath, Vish, Węziak-Białowolska, Dorota, Kubzansky, Laura D. Brief well-being assessments, or nothing all? Preventive Medicine (2020).
Tyler J. VanderWeele, PhD, Eileen McNeely, PhD; Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH. Re-imagining Health – Flourishing. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) (2019).
Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Eileen McNeely and Tyler J. VanderWeele. Flourish Index and Secure Flourish Index – Validation in Workplace Settings. Cogent Psychology (2019).
Eileen McNeely. Following Footprints: What Corporate Health Can Learn from Environmental Sustainability. American Journal of Health Promotion (2018), p.1146-1150.
Tyler J. VanderWeele. On the promotion of human flourishing. PNAS (2017)