Mehmet Caglar Akyigit

Decent work is more than a policy aspiration. It is a human right grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN, 1948) and advanced through global social justice and development frameworks (MacNaughton & Frey, 2011), including the ILO Decent Work Agenda (ILO, 1999) and the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization (ILO, 2008), and its integration into the Sustainable Development.

Goal (UN, 2015). This interactive training connects these rights-based standards with psychological theory and evidence to improve everyday work environments. Participants will clarify core principles of decent work through a rights-based lens, then work with realistic workplace scenarios involving fairness, safety,

voice, workload, and dignity. Drawing on the Psychology of Working Theory (Blustein et al., 2016) and other advances in decent work research (Zammitti et al., 2023), participants will diagnose common workplace problems and identify likely psychological consequences, such as increased burnout risk, reduced engagement and commitment, and poorer well-being, consistent with evidence linking decent work to health and well-being (Duffy et al., 2019). The session then shifts from diagnosis to action: participants will co-design feasible interventions across micro–meso–macro levels and conclude with a structured action plan to translate principles into practice.