Background

Positive Psychology has been devoted to enhance well-being within organizations during the first two decades of the current millennium. Unfortunately, little data is available on current assessment related to positive psychology practices in the workplace. 

Aims 

Therefore, to assess organizational well-being in a valid and reliable way, a new scale has been created and validated by the Institute for Wellbeing and Happiness at Tecmilenio University in Mexico: the BEAT Questionnaire, that propose four main elements: Organizational Well-Being, Focus on Positive Leadership, Positive Environmental Features and Meaningful Work and whose main contribution to previous models is the element of meaningful work.

Method

EFA and CFA were carried out to determine and confirm the scale’s structure; internal consistency tests were performed too; additionally, convergence with measures of engagement, labor resources, and worker relations were also confirmed, and discriminant validity was tested by comparing associations with job search intentions and negative relationships in the workplace,

Results

Both EFA and CFA, confirmed the instrument with four clearly defined latent dimensions: Organizational Well-Being, Focus on Positive Leadership, Positive Environmental Features and Meaningful Work, composed by 24 highly consistent items, convergent with three other valid and reliable scales; job search, Satisfaction with labor resources and worker relations.

Conclusion

 All procedures complied with statistical requirements, delivering a valid and reliable instrument for measuring well-being in the workplace. The BEAT model, based on recent findings from the POP, offers the possibility for organizations to know themselves better and identify areas of opportunity related to institutional well-being. In addition, providing employees with the opportunity of increasing their own well-being is an idea that is gradually gaining presence in organizations’ cultural change, and the tool presented in this article is an effort to have an instrument that provides useful, valid, and replicable information.