Well but unwanted : backlash against mental wellbeing prioritization in organizations
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- We are in a mental-health crisis. The majority of U.S. employees (75%) report struggling with their mental health, and, consequently, organizations are investing more into mental wellbeing initiatives than ever before. Yet in a society where the "ideal worker" norm demands full devotion to one's job, many employees may hesitate to use these initiatives over fear of backlash. In this dissertation, I demonstrate across three chapters and six studies (N = 3,757) that fear of backlash for mental health prioritization negatively affects employees' willingness to prioritize their mental wellbeing (Chapter 1; Study 1) and that such fear of backlash is warranted (Chapter 2; Studies 2-4). I further show that the way in which this backlash manifests (overtly or subtly) depends on evaluators' concerns about the way they will be perceived in a/the (?) workplace (i.e., image risk)¬¬. I conclude by exploring how shifting organizational norms can mitigate or exacerbate the expression of backlash towards employees who prioritize their mental wellbeing at work (Chapter 3; Studies 5-6). I discuss the theoretical implications of my work for scholarship on mental health and wellbeing at work, backlash, and workplace normative change, as well as comment on the practical implications of my findings for organizations and their employees.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Freund, Andrea Leigh |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Martin, Ashley, 1988- |
| Degree supervisor | Neale, Margaret Ann |
| Thesis advisor | Martin, Ashley, 1988- |
| Thesis advisor | Neale, Margaret Ann |
| Thesis advisor | Flynn, Francis J |
| Degree committee member | Flynn, Francis J |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Business |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Andrea L. Freund. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Business. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/zp240cw9756 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Andrea Leigh Freund
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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