Designing and evaluating resource-oriented interventions to enhance employee well-being and health

This editorial introduces JOOP’s special issue on designing and evaluating resource-oriented interventions to enhance employees’ well-being and health. This special issue aims to stimulate research on resource-oriented interventions by bringing together examples of original intervention research, literature reviews on specific resources, and guidelines on how to design and evaluate resource-oriented interventions. We begin with a reflection on current issues pertaining to definition, design and focus of resource-oriented interventions at work, followed by a brief outline of the papers included in this special issue. Four papers examine how resource-oriented interventions can develop personal and job resources, thereby evaluating their effect on well-being, health, and to a lesser extent, performance. Two papers provide guidance on how to design and evaluate resource-oriented interventions in the workplace. The special issue concludes with a critical reflection on the current state of the field by Baumeister and Alghamdi, which points to the challenges and limitations of resourcebased intervention research, with the aim to inspire and advance future research in this field.