The Psychologically Healthy Workplace (SOP77)

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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We spend a significant portion of our lives at work and feeling miserable on the job can be detrimental to our mental and physical health and productivity. A work environment that is psychologically healthy is one that focuses on employees’ health and well-being and the bottom line. Our guests for this episode are David Ballard, PsyD, who leads APA’s Office of Applied Psychology, and Bryce Veon, president and CEO of Autosoft, a winner of our 2019 Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards. APA is currently seeking proposals for APA 2020 sessions, learn more at http://convention.apa.org/proposals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Speaking of Psychology, a bi-weekly podcast from the American Psychological Association.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Caitlin Luna. The topic for this episode is psychologically healthy workplaces.
0:18.6	We spend a significant portion of our lives at work and feeling miserable
0:22.3	on the job can be detrimental to our mental and physical health and productivity. A work
0:27.5	environment that is psychologically healthy is one that focuses on employees' health and well-being
0:32.0	and the bottom line. To explain more about what makes a workplace psychologically healthy,
0:37.2	our guests for this episode are
0:38.7	dr david ballard who leads a p a office of applied psychology and bryce vion president and
0:45.0	CEO of autosoft one of the winners of our 2019 psychologically healthy workplace awards
0:51.1	autosoft based in northwest penn Pennsylvania, is an auto dealer management system
0:56.0	provider. Welcome, David Ballard and Mr. Vion. Thanks, Caitlin. Thanks. Great to be here.
1:02.3	First off, Dr. Ballard, can you explain what it means to be a psychologically healthy workplace?
1:07.3	Sure. Being a psychologically healthy workplace really just means paying attention to employee well-being and organizational performance and working toward the best outcomes possible for all of the people involved. So that means employees, the organization, shareholders or owners of the organization, and even the community that an organization is embedded in.
1:28.3	And there's not one single way of doing this. There's not a one-size-fits-all approach.
1:32.3	It really is about taking comprehensive steps to create this kind of healthy and productive environment.
1:38.3	And the types of things we see in organizations fall into some general categories.
1:43.3	Employee involvement, growth and development
1:45.4	opportunities, health and safety initiatives, work-life balance and flexibility, employee
1:50.6	recognition, and then good, effective two-way communication in an organization.
1:56.3	And in an environment like that, where a psychologically healthy workplace is created,
2:00.5	it helps employees and the organization thrive.
2:02.6	Yeah, how so?
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