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  • Organizational Behavior

Background:

  • Holistic well-being is a prominent concept in HR and mental health.
  • Current definitions lack theoretical consensus and clarity.
  • Existing approaches risk category errors and conceptual inflation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a more sophisticated approach to defining well-being.
  • To ground well-being within the established field of human motivation.
  • To offer a unified theoretical framework for well-being.

Main Methods:

  • Reviewing leading definitions of well-being in academic and practitioner literature.
  • Analyzing these definitions for underlying motivational concepts.
  • Developing a comprehensive model based on a taxonomy of human motives.

Main Results:

  • Existing well-being definitions can be reduced to a core set of human motives.
  • A comprehensive motivational taxonomy offers a unified structure.
  • Twelve human motivations form the basis of the proposed model.

Conclusions:

  • Adopting a motivational taxonomy provides substantial value over current approaches.
  • This framework enhances theory development for well-being.
  • Clear operational definitions grounded in motivation improve practical applications.