Job demands, work-life balance, and theoretical frameworks
5OS07 – Wellbeing at work
This CIPD Level 5 video for unit 5OS07 – Wellbeing at work explores job demands, work-life balance, and theoretical frameworks essential to assessment criteria AC 1.1. The video addresses contemporary issues shaping modern workplaces, including evolving work patterns, hybrid arrangements, remote working, and their impact on employee wellbeing. You'll examine key theories in wellbeing, stress factors, and mental health considerations, whilst understanding how organisational culture and leadership styles influence worker outcomes. By completing this module, you'll gain the knowledge to explain critical wellbeing issues and apply established theoretical frameworks to real workplace scenarios.
What this video covers
Covering Assessment Criterion 1.1 of the CIPD Level 5 unit 5OS07 – Wellbeing at Work, this video examines the nature and variety of job demands alongside the theoretical models that explain their relationship to employee wellbeing. The Job Demands-Resources model sits at the centre of the discussion, and the video addresses both its health impairment pathway and its motivational pathway. Alongside this, the content covers quantitative, cognitive, emotional, and physical demand types, including the concept of emotional labour and its particular relevance to roles in healthcare, customer service, and caring professions.
Work-life balance receives sustained attention, with the video examining role conflict and role enrichment as contrasting outcomes of the relationship between professional and personal domains. The discussion also engages with individual factors that shape wellbeing at work, including stress, mental health stigma, financial wellbeing, and caring responsibilities — all of which are situated within the contemporary landscape of hybrid and remote working arrangements that have shifted how employees experience job demands and work-life boundaries.
On the theoretical side, the video introduces positive psychology through Martin Seligman's PERMA model, covering its five elements of positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment and their implications for workplace design. Self-Determination Theory is also examined, with its three core psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness presented as a further framework for understanding intrinsic motivation and wellbeing. The Whitehall Studies — longitudinal research into British civil servants — are discussed as empirical evidence linking job control to health outcomes, grounding the theoretical frameworks in a well-established research tradition.
Assessment Criteria 1.1
Explain issues and key theories in wellbeing at work.
Indicative Content
Contemporary issues involving the changing nature of work, leadership styles, workers and workplaces: work patterns, culture and change, job demands; workplaces relationships, work- life balance, and individual factors such as stress, increasing prevalence of mental health conditions, care responsibilities and financial concerns, working at home and remote working, hybrid work arrangements; theories relating to wellbeing such as positive psychology.
What You'll Learn
Video covering: Job demands, work-life balance, and theoretical frameworks
About 5OS07 – Wellbeing at work
This unit explores the importance of wellbeing in the workplace and the relationship with people practices and organisation strategy. The design and development of effective wellbeing programmes is examined to meet people and organisational requirements
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Introduction to wellbeing and the changing nature of work
AC 1.1 – Explain issues and key theories in wellbeing at work.
Workplace culture, relationships, and leadership
AC 1.1 – Explain issues and key theories in wellbeing at work.
Connecting wellbeing management to organisational goals
AC 1.2 – Discuss how wellbeing can be managed to support organisational goals.
Key mechanisms for managing workplace wellbeing
AC 1.2 – Discuss how wellbeing can be managed to support organisational goals.
Understanding wellbeing definitions and why it matters strategically
AC 1.2 – Discuss how wellbeing can be managed to support organisational goals.
Engagement, Retention, Relationships, and Organisational Benefits
AC 1.3 – Assess the benefits of adopting wellbeing practices in organisations.
Performance, Motivation, and Productivity Benefits
AC 1.3 – Assess the benefits of adopting wellbeing practices in organisations.
Stress Prevention and Creating Positive Working Environments
AC 1.3 – Assess the benefits of adopting wellbeing practices in organisations.
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