FACTORS AFFECTING EMPLOYEES’ MENTAL HEALTH: LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

In any business, employees are the most valuable asset because of its human-centric nature. In the workplace, viewing employee mental health on a continuum is useful and vital to improving employee mental health and reducing potential disruptions to employee productivity as well as organizational performance and survival. Based on a systematic literature review, the author analyzed 14 papers published in top journals to provide a theoretical review of recent studies on factors influencing employee mental health, identify research gaps related to employee mental health, and propose a theoretical framework on employee mental health that can be applied to the Vietnamese context. The overall results show that the factors affecting employee mental health in previous studies are classified into five groups: job demands, job resources, personal resources, health impairment process (fatigue, burnout), and motivational process (satisfaction with the workspace, positive affect, work engagement).