Perceived Organizational Support and Well-being of Housekeeping Staff through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: An Ethnographic Study

Abstract

Martin Seligman examines the dynamics of learned helplessness and the development of a growth mindset in his ground-breaking study on the positive psychological drivers of human endeavor and identity. An ethnographic approach is used in this paper to examine the individual and collective existential affirmations that local conservancy staff members of a large educational institution, nestled in the Lavasa Valley grapple with, in their work life and their community socialization. Interest in the impact of employee wellness models of engagement at work has recently grown. The term 'Well-Being' commonly refers to the overall quality of life. Concepts of health, satisfaction with life experiences, work and prosperity are constituent units of experience commonly used to describe 'Well-Being' which also provides the endurance to engage constructively with distress, dissatisfaction, and worry. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides a primary model for occupational therapy that has been actively adopted in the training and development of sanitation workers. CBT is a therapeutic strategy that helps people to identify and change negative beliefs behaviours that contribute to anxiety and worry. A meta-review has found that stress-management interventions based on CBT have the strongest evidence for effectiveness in reducing work-related stress. This paper draws on the principles of positive psychology, where the researchers examine the collective experiences of the conservancy staff members by applying working principles from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to examine their perception of well-being and happiness.