Civil Servants’ Well-being

A Literature Review

Abstract

This review aims to critically and systematically assess the past research on civil servants’ well-being, and provide suggestions for future research by performing a SWOT analysis. For the present review, nine works were examined, all of which were studies carried out on civil servants’ well-being. However, there are certain criteria adopted for the inclusion of the studies used for the review. These are (1) empirical investigation, (2) studies on civil servants and their wellbeing, (3) published in peer-reviewed journals, and (4) written in English. Findings from the reviewed articles, concepts of well-being, and methods used were presented and discussed in the result section. The reviewed studies were then discussed using a SWOT analysis to address the strengths and weaknesses of the reviewed research as well as the identified opportunities and threats. Taken together, these results suggest that to enhance or promote civil servants’ well-being, the organisation and the government must provide well-being education; establish well-being centres in the offices and the organisation, and provide timely counselling to the civil servants who require counselling related to well-being. In addition, these findings contribute in several ways to our understanding of well-being and provide a basis for future studies to undertake research on civil servants’ well-being.