Let the team fix it?-Performance and mood of depressed workers and coworkers in different work contexts.

ABSTRACT: Depression in the workplace is a significant factor for reduced personal well-being and productivity. Consequently, this has negative effects on the economic success of the companies in which depressed people are employed. In addition, the economy has to deal with the significant burden of this illness on the health system. In this paper, we investigated how different working contexts-working in a group or individually-influenced depressed individuals towards higher or lower well-being and productivity. We examined this using a laboratory experiment. In this setting, we were also able to analyze how, in turn, a depressive individual impacted the productivity and affective situation of their workgroup, reflecting the company perspective. The experimental design mimicked the very basic proce

SUBMITTER: Vollmann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8516233 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature