Positive Mental Health Approach: Towards Promotion and Improvement in the Well-Being of Individuals and Organizations

Abstract

Efforts to maintain employees' mental health at a workplace have been undertaken and made progress in Japan. To make the effort more effective, it is important to improve the health level of the organization as a whole, from the viewpoint of positive mental health, which leads to raise the well-being of individuals and organizations. In order to improve the health of the organization, it is necessary to increase the psychosocial resources of the organization and aiming for a state where various human resources (position, sex, age, health condition, etc.) can be accepted through efforts to do so.