Human Flourishing in Institutions
This programme aims to research the functioning of individuals, relations, and institutions (on a continuum varying from flourishing to languishing) and its antecedents, outcomes, and utility. Working from the capability approach and positive organisational scholarship, and considering the precariousness inherent in modern society, the research programme investigates the optimal functioning of individuals, relationships, and institutions. Flourishing refers to optimal functioning as indicated by positive emotions, a positive affect balance, satisfaction with life (and life domains), engagement, self-determination (and satisfaction of the needs for autonomy, competence. and relatedness), meaning and purpose, learning agility, positive relations, and social well-being. Languishing indicates the opposite of these types of functioning. The programme aims to develop and evaluate interventions to optimise capability, flourishing, and utility.
Recent publications
2025Social well-being at work: The effect of job insecurity and different foci of trust.
Hennicks, E.C., Heyns, M.M., & Rothmann, S.
South African Journal of Human Resource Management2025Keeping one’s job … but potentially losing job quality? Qualitative job insecurity as an explanatory mechanism between short-time work schemes and well-being.
Rodriguez C. C., De Cuyper, N., Vander Elst, T., Stinglhamber, F., Godderis, L., Vandenbroeck, S., & De Witte, H.
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology2025Throwing the baby out with the bathwater – while adding the bathtub too: a rejoinder to “Beliefs about burnout” of Bianchi and Schonfeld,
De Witte, H., & Schaufeli, W
Work and Stress2025Is occupation insecurity associated with conspiracy views? A test of parallel mediation through political powerlessness and relative deprivation.
De Witte, H., Van Hootegem, A., & Roll, L.
Economic and Industrial DemocracyMembers
