Workplace wellbeingLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

The student is able to evaluate the influence of work, work community and one’s own actions on workplace wellbeing. The student understands the factors influencing wellbeing at work and how to function as a member of a work community. The student is able to produce new ideas and methods for promoting wellbeing at work and contributes to the developing of his/her own and the wellbeing of the work community. The student can search for and evaluate evidence-based research information relevant to personal and work community wellbeing. The student is able to construct his/her own workplace wellbeing plan.

Content

Positive emotional and motivational state at work – Work engagement
What can I do as a member of the work community to achieve work engagement?
Environments in which creativity can flourish
Training your brain
Workplace as the arena of health promotion
Promoting working ability and health lifestyle in the workplace
Sit less – move more during the work day
Tools for managing the changing and diverse working life – Remote work, eWork, mobile work and multi-seat work
Rest and recovery
Work wellbeing plan
Workplace health and safety

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student is able to:
- demonstrate familiarization with the knowledge base of the field
- distinguish everyday knowledge from scientific knowledge
- use the concepts of the field appropriately
- evaluate personal strengths and development needs
- demonstrate having reached the goals set for the core competence

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student is able to:
- search for evidence-based knowledge diversely
- use concepts of the field extensively
- use rational justification for their actions
- focus on their work and develop it

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students can:
- use and evaluate evidence-based knowledge critically
- apply the concepts of their field extensively
- evaluate and apply alternative solutions to their decision-making
- work in a goal-oriented way and develop themselves

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student is able to:
- demonstrate familiarization with the knowledge base of the field
- distinguish everyday knowledge from scientific knowledge
- use the concepts of the field appropriately
- evaluate personal strengths and development needs
- demonstrate having reached the goals set for the core competence