Abstract:

The main aim of this article is to try to organise the growing number of the definitions of well-being and to present the most popular theories of employee well-being. The article consists of three parts: the first part outlines a broad interest in the well-being of an individual within various sciences; the second part presents approaches to well-being in the parent discipline for the discussed issue (i.e. psychology); and the last part focuses on the conceptualisation of the idea of well-being in the field of management sciences. The aim of the article is to emphasise the importance of adopting a specific characteristic for a given field’s understanding of the well-being of an individual; this is because it has specific consequences for understanding what employee well-being is and, therefore, implies the way in which an organisation monitors and supports them.