The differences in view between managers and employees of enterprises of Latvia in regard to the provision of mental well-being in the working environment

The need for mental well-being is substantiated in the working environment by the EU legislation and research. Research is carried out on the opportunities of creating comprehensive well-being at the workplace to promote the productivity of sustainable personnel. The mental well-being of personnel is studied in contexts such as: ecologies of working environment (including occupational safety, occupational health) and quality of life; adaptation and integration of employees into the workplace; psychosocial risks; organizing and conducting of an inclusive mental well-being. These contexts also can be defined as groups of psychosocial factors influencing mental well-being. The goal of the study was to find out how managers and employees of the companies and institutions of Latvia explain mental well-being and its provision in the working environment in order to identify problems and solutions to problems of mental well-being in the working environment. A quantitative approach was used in the research –in cooperation with the SKDS research centre there was worked and carried out online questionnaire (CAWI) in written and extramarital forms for managers of companies / enterprise (N = 263) and employees (N = 570) of Latvia. The substantiation of the survey was to get approval for the conclusions, which had been obtained using the literature analysis. The indicators of difference in the results were obtained using a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for two groups (Two-Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test). The results show that both managers and employees have got a good understanding of the usefulness of mental well-being in management of a company/enterprise and its personnel. There were found statistically significant differences in the evaluation of managers and personnel for the aspects of mental well-being: the awareness of the concept of "mental wellbeing of personnel"; the assessment of the mental well-being of personnel: the assessment of psychosocial risk factors, frequency of the assessment of work-related risks; the assessment of the promotion of mental well-being of personnel: the assessment of the practice of promoting mental well-being, the formal formulation of mental well-being, the opportunity for employees to participate in mental well-being promotion activities, the assessment of the importance of the mental well-being of personnel to sustainable development of the company/enterprise. It has been concluded that the mental well-being of personnel is a continuous process of the type of cycles where the individual sense of mental well-being of each employee and the functional action of synergy creates mental well-being in the company as a system. According to the conceptualized promotion of the mental well-being of the personnel in the practice of companies /enterprises of Latvia, such management approach is implemented partially. At the same time, managers and employees appreciate the importance of such management. Overall, the results show the necessity for managers to communicate with employees on mental well-being issues. The study identifies the most important criteria for the assessing the mental well-being of personnel and the topical areas of concern for the mental well-being of personnel.