Defining well-being
According to Felce and Perry (1995), well-being:
" ...comprises objective descriptors and subjective evaluations of physical, material, social and emotional well-being, together with the extent of personal development and purposeful activity, all weighted by a personal set of values."
This is important because the definition extends the meaning of well-being to a range of different dimensions beyond the conventional health ones which can be extended to the workplace. It also recognises that an individual's state of well-being is based on their own value set. Again, this is critical when trying to measure the concept. The Work and Well-Being Assessments are able to accommodate this by asking respondents to 'score' the importance of various work-related items according to their own experience and perceptions.
