Workplace culture, relationships, and leadership
5OS07 – Wellbeing at work
This CIPD Level 5 video on workplace culture, relationships, and leadership forms part of unit 5OS07 – Wellbeing at work, directly addressing assessment criteria AC 1.1 on key theories and issues in organisational wellbeing. The video explores contemporary workplace challenges including hybrid work arrangements, work-life balance, leadership styles, and their impact on employee mental health and relationships. You'll examine how organisational culture influences wellbeing across changing work patterns and remote working environments, whilst considering individual factors such as stress and care responsibilities. By watching this video, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of contemporary wellbeing theories and practical insights to support employee engagement and organisational performance.
What this video covers
Organisational culture sits at the heart of this video, which addresses AC 1.1 of the 5OS07 Wellbeing at Work unit by examining the conditions that either support or undermine employee wellbeing in contemporary workplaces. The video looks at how high-performance cultures can normalise overwork and discourage openness about struggle, and contrasts this with the concept of psychological safety, covering what characterises psychologically safe environments and why they matter for early intervention when wellbeing challenges arise. The changing nature of organisations — including restructuring, digital transformation, and ongoing uncertainty — is examined as a source of chronic stress and reduced engagement, with attention given to how the communication and management of change shapes its impact on employees.
Workplace relationships are treated as a central predictor of wellbeing, with the video drawing a clear distinction between manager relationships and peer relationships and exploring how each operates differently. The influence of managers — including how absent, inconsistent, or critical management behaviours affect team wellbeing — sits alongside discussion of peer dynamics, trust, and collaboration. Toxic workplace behaviours, among them bullying, harassment, discrimination, and incivility, are covered in terms of their impact both on those directly targeted and on those who witness them, connecting these issues to the broader concept of psychological safety introduced earlier in the video.
Leadership style receives detailed treatment, with the video covering transformational leadership, authentic leadership, and servant leadership as distinct approaches, alongside autocratic or authoritarian leadership and its tendency to limit employee autonomy and voice. The Whitehall Studies are named as evidence for the relationship between lack of control and poorer health outcomes, grounding the discussion of leadership in research relevant to 5OS07's indicative content on contemporary wellbeing issues.
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: Workplace culture, relationships, and leadership
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.
Job demands, work-life balance, and theoretical frameworks
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.
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