Managing Pressuring Eco-System Influencing Media Workers’ Well-Being in Malaysian Creative Industries

Working in an eco-system that dominantly targeting at wealth creation often force workers to face many forms of pressure and sacrifices. The situations worsen in the private sector of media industry as media workers in creative industries work for long exhaustive hours that leads to imbalance and unhealthy lifestyle including emotional wellbeing, which in the long run involved in serious health issues. This paper therefore intends to find out the influence of eco-system of a workplace influencing Muslim media practitioners’ wellbeing. To what extend does the environment at a workplace influence Muslim media practitioners’ life and job performance. How do they negotiate the environment, their work and religious life at workplace? Interviews among Muslim media managers in Malaysia discovered that leadership, time management, and work culture are key factors ensuring healthy eco-system for Muslim media workers in creative media industries.