Prioritizing Psychological Well-Being of Employees: Leadership Perspective Towards Organizational Sustainability

Covid-19 attacked and captured the world with a jolt disrupting economy, business and life all around the world. Responsible leaders took the task of saving their organizations to wade through the tough business climate. In an urge to survive financially and to remain in business; they ventured into new business ideas/models, irrespective of the amount of hard work it required from their employees. In the same urge to survive financially and to remain in job, employees worked day in and day out to perform/outperform. This extreme hard work coupled with extremely uncertain climate, seemed to have taken a toll at employees’ physical and psychological well-being. For organizational sustainability in the longer run, employee well-being must be accorded due priority by every organization and its leaders, taking lessons once and for all, from Covid-19 induced climate.