Thursday 23 July 11:25
- 12:55
Hall: 01 - Basilica
Chair:
Di Fabio Annamaria
Discussant:
Peiró José María
Division: Division 1: Work and Organizational Psychology
Healthy Organizations emphasize the value of the virtuous circle of successful performance and healthy workers for healthy business. This perspective is aligned with the happy-productive worker model (Cropanzano & Wright, 2001; Peiró et al., 2019, 2021) highlighting a synergetic crucial relationship between well-being and work-related outcomes, also supporting the well-being movement (Robertson & Cooper, 2010) and the crucial role of mental health (Kelloway et al., 2023) in organizations. In a Healthy Organizations framework, new forms of leadership and management of human resources have been introduced as the Human Capital Sustainability Leadership (HCSL; Di Fabio & Peiró, 2018a). The HCSL emphasizes the promotion of healthy people as flourishing and resilient workers, fostering organizational contexts as sustainable and high-performing environments. Based on a focus on relationships and awareness, the HCSL can express itself not only as formal but also as informal leadership, and in different contexts.
The HCSL is also aligned with the Sustainability Science (Komiyama & Takeuchi, 2006; Sahle et al., 2025; Takeuchi et al., 2017), and Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Agenda 2030 (SDGs) using psychological lens and the framework of the psychology of sustainability and sustainable development, to promote positive organizational environments characterized by valorization of human resources, enhancing mental health and well-being.
The interest for the HCSL is progressively increasing. At the moment are available the Malaysian version (Seok, Ching, & Ismail, 2021), the Japanese version (Tani, Tsuda, Tanaka, Hashimoto, & Shirataki, 2025); the Argentinian version (Vaamonde & Peiró, 2025), and other versions are in progress in other countries.
The first contribution by Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Akira Tsuda, and Kanae Tani will highlight the value of HCSL for Japanese managers' own mental health.
The second contribution by Chua Bee Seok and Rosnah Ismail will underline the contribution of HCSL and individual differences in promoting flourishing.
The third contribution by Charles Tchagneno will offer the French-language validation of the Human Capital Sustainability Leadership Scale, continuing to open opportunities in a cross-cultural perspective.
The fourth contribution by Carpintero et al. deals with the adaptation of the Spanish version of the Scale for Spain, focusing on the appraisal of the supervisors' leadership by their employees.
As discussant, José María Peiró will offer remarks on the value of this symposium and on the results of the three presentations.
