Designing Sustainable Organizations - A Framework with a Joint Focus on Wellbeing and Organizational Performance in Workplaces

There is a widespread understanding that “good health is good for business”. Two of the United Nations’ 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), number 3 and 8, express a similar understanding aiming to improve wellbeing and ensure decent work and economic growth. Plenty of international tools and methods are available to support interventions to ensure wellbeing prevent stress, but organizations still search for ways to deal with the increasing and costly problem. Acknowledging the experience and knowledge among executives, managers and researchers, the aim of this study was to allow these actors inspired by Mode-2 knowledge production framework to co-create new knowledge on preventive strategies by combining a systems perspective on prevention and stress management interventions. The framework can help design sustainable organizations that are capable of identifying new solutions and enhance the implementability of stress preventive changes than can ensure both business relevance and employee wellbeing.