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Issues of employee well-being at SKEMA Business School Analysis Report
Laura Oldakowski
Skema Business School
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Executive Summary
SKEMA Business School is an international business school that provides knowledge in
economy and management through nine campuses around the world. This report aims to analyze
and find solutions to address the well-being issues of the school’s administrators and professors.
As a result of this analysis, we can provide some recommendations that SKEMA should
consider incorporating for the well-being of the school’s staff. Through benefits but also the
inconvenience of all the alternatives, three of them stand out in solving this problem. Furthermore,
they might be the only solutions to incorporate well-being for the SKEMA staff. As such, we
recommend exploring these possibilities.
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SKEMA Business School is an international business school that provides knowledge in
economy and management. The Executive Board has heard that administrators and professors are
highly stressed at their jobs. However, in recent times, corporation knows that the well-being of
their employees must be taken seriously because it can, in fact, cut down the cost per employee.
Therefore, it is fair to admit that happiness and success are straightly connected. This report aims
to advise SKEMA Business School on how to incorporate well-being for the SKEMA Staff. In
order to do so, we will start by understanding what needs to be undone not to be a roadblock. Then,
we will search every alternative possible to achieve this goal and see how each of these alternatives
can or cannot be the solution to the problem, and to conclude we will select the best options for
SKEMA.
Our findings reveal three alternatives that might be the best solutions to solve the well-
being problem for the SKEMA staff. First, they should recognize the contribution of their
employees at work. As Sathi Saha said in his article “How to promote employee well-being at
Workplace”, a survey shows that 70% of employees said that recognition makes them feel
emotionally connected to peers. It is the main point of incorporating well-being in a company that
does not need any sacrifice but will value the company.
Second, SKEMA should be flexible in working hours outside of class hours. Indeed, as
Adela Belin said in her article “Trends in improving well-being in the workplace”, rigidity in
working is a lost cause. Employees need freedom as long as they are working right. Also, they will
develop a sense of loyalty and satisfaction towards the work and reduce stress.
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Third, they should give financial advice to their employee. It is not something that
corporation thinks about a lot, but as Adela Belin said in her article, they should because it can
benefit their employees’ well-being. Giving financial advice to employees can be a benefit to the
company because it will give importance to them, and their satisfaction and loyalty will be
reinforced through this initiative.
Following our study, we concluded that SKEMA Business School should consider these
three recommendations to incorporate the well-being of the SKEMA Staff. First, they should
recognize the contribution of their employees at work. Second, SKEMA should be flexible in
working hours outside of class hours. Third, they should give financial advice to their employee.
These three recommendations might be the key to successfully incorporating wellbeing for
SKEMA staff.
We, therefore, recommend that SKEMA Business School take these recommendations
seriously because they can be the solution to solve the problem of well-being in the SKEMA staff.
The biggest roadblock to improving employee well-being is not accepting its importance and not
taking action.
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References
Belin, A. (2018, November 04). Trends in improving well-being in the workplace. Retrieved
from http://www.hrtrendinstitute.com/2018/01/31/trends-in-improving-well-being-in-the-
workplace/
Kohll, A. (2018, September 22). The biggest roadblock to improving employee well-being.
Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/alankohll/2018/09/18/the-biggest-roadblock-
to-improving-employee-well-being/
MacDonald, V. (2016, October 14). Mind and Body: Is Employee Wellbeing the Missing Piece
of Your HR Jigsaw? Retrieved from http://www.corehr.com/blog/mind-body-employee-
wellbeing-missing-piece-hr-jigsaw
Saha, S. (n.d). Mentoring Complete. How to promote employee wellbeing at Workplace.
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