What If Wellbeing Is A Work Design Problem with Jo Yarker

About this episode

The episode discusses the deeper issues behind workplace wellbeing and what HR leaders can do to address them effectively.

Workplace wellbeing is everywhere, yet too many programs still feel like duct tape on a deeper problem. Bill Banham sits down with Professor Jo Yarker, Professor of Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck University of London and managing partner at Affinity Health at Work, to get practical about what actually drives healthy performance and what HR leaders can do when quick fixes fail. We dig into why the “tick box” approach breaks down, how to measure whether an intervention truly helps, and wh...

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Host: Bill Banham

Guest: Jo Yarker

Topics covered

• workplace wellbeing
• occupational psychology
• HR leadership
• healthy performance
• work design

Keywords

• workplace wellbeing
• HR leaders
• performance measurement
• intervention effectiveness
• occupational psychology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Birkbeck University of London, Affinity Health at Work

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