How do you create and sustain workplace mental health in culturally diverse workplaces? Is shame healthy or unhealthy? Discover the answers in our interview with Prof. Claude-Hélène Mayer, Prof. in Industrial and Organisational Psychology, University of Johannesburg.
Chapters
0:00 Learning outcomes.
2:09 What is existential positive psychology, or PP 2.0, and how does this framework shape your research and practices?
4:27 What is transcultural mental health and wellbeing at the workplace, and why do they matter?
11:13 What can organisational leaders do to create and sustain workplace mental health in culturally diverse workplaces?
16:22 In addition to stress, anxiety, and depression, mental health shame can also increase mental health problems. What is mental health shame?
20:23 Shame has often been considered harmful and undesirable; how can shame be transformed from a positive psychology viewpoint into a health resource?
27:47 What is one thing that you have been doing this week to look after your wellbeing?