The interplay of resilience, stress, mental wellbeing and task performance: Implications for sustainable workplaces

Understanding relationships between stress, resilience, mental wellbeing, and task-performance is critical for success in today’s sustainable workplaces. Thus, we aimed to analyse and develop a management framework to deal with this criticality. Inspired by Salutogenesis theory – prioritizing positive variables over the absence of negative ones, our emphasis was on resilience and mental wellbeing for stress management and improving task performance. Data from 445 employees was collected by a survey instrument employing standardised scales. Reliability and validity of constructs were established through the measurement model, while the structural model tested the strength of the relationships. Low stress and high resilience were identified as having a strong effect on mental wellbeing, which in-turn improved task-performance. This study highlights that resilience and mental wellbeing, in addition to stress management, significantly improves task performance for sustainable workplaces.