Systemic Approaches to Workplace Wellbeing
Systemic Approaches to Workplace Wellbeing
Concepts and approaches for Canadian provinces and school districts
Date: August 29, 2023
This article rejects a dominant focus on individual remedies and argues for systemic approaches to address workplace wellbeing. While individual responsibility has its place, a primary focus on it is misplaced. Teachers, principals, or school bus drivers should bear some responsibility for their own wellbeing, and for positively contributing to their professional workplace, but should not bear responsibility for fixing school systems that may be making them sick.
So how to create systemic approaches to wellbeing?