Social harmony at work: A sharedness index linking team atmosphere to individual well-being in a Japanese company.

ABSTRACT: Social harmony, defined as the flourishing of interdependent relationships, is central to well-being in workplace teams but is often measured with abstract self-reports that offer limited interpretability and limited guidance for interventions. This study aims to operationalize social harmony as an interpretable sharedness index and to test its association with individual well-being. In a two-month field study at a Japanese company, 94 employees from 23 teams submitted daily reports containing an 11-point well-being score, an 11-point team atmosphere score, and a short diary entry. We computed two weekly team level indices. The score-based sharedness index was defined as the negative of the within team standard deviation of team atmosphere scores. The text-based sharedness index was define

SUBMITTER: Ito K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12747401 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature