TOWARD AN INTEGRATED AND INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO WORKER WELL-BEING John W. Budd David A. Spencer Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies Economics Division 3-300 Carlson School of Management Leeds University Business School University of Minnesota University of Leeds Minneapolis, MN 55455-0438 USA Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom jbudd@umn.edu D.A.Spencer@lubs.leeds.ac.uk Version Date: August 28, 2011 Abstract The importance of worker well-being is widely-embraced. But there are numerous perspectives on what worker well-being actually is, how to measure it, whether it needs improving, and, if needed, how to improve it. This paper uses an original framework of ten conceptualizations of work to make two important contributions. First, the importance of implicit views of work for explicit perspectives on worker well-being is revealed. Second, a broad integrative and interdisciplinary approach to worker well-being that reflects the breadth of work’s importance for the human experience is developed.