Archive for October, 2008
Employee Wellness Program: Conditions for Success
1. Senior management involvement in the Employee Wellness Program- Evidence of enthusiastic commitment and involvement of senior management helps staff members understand their organizations’ serious commitment to health. Employees need to perceive that their senior management, supervisors, and coworkers have positive attitudes toward health since these factors have all been associated with enhanced employee health [...]
Employee Wellness Programs: Health and Safe Work Environment
The environmental conditions of the worksite can be divided into both physical and psychosocial domains, both of which influence the culture and climate of a worksite. The cultural norms of a worksite have been identified as powerful determinants of worker health and behavior (Baum, 1995). Ultimately, workers benefit most from a healthy, supportive; eustressful worksite [...]
Benefits of Employee Wellness Plans
Introduction to Employee Wellness Plans
Risky health behaviors by staff members cost a company. Changing those behaviors can save the employer money and raise the staff member’s productivity.
Because work gives an staff member a stable environment and support system, Employee Wellness Plans can have a great impact on decreasing high-risk behaviors. This impact results in lower [...]
Employee Wellness Programs: Counseling & Employee Assistance Programs
An employee’s psychological health can never be neglected in a comprehensive model of Employee Wellness Programs. Originating out of a need for alcohol abuse interventions in the worksite, today’s employee assistance programs (EAP) encompass assessment and counseling for substance abuse and dependency, stress related disorders, family conflicts and other individual issues.
Evidence of the need for [...]
How to Write Company Health and Wellness Program Goals and Objectives
Why have Company Health and Wellness Program goals?
Company Health and Wellness Program goals take your corporation’s priorities for employee health improvement and make them specific and measurable. Well-defined Company Health and Wellness Program goals provide direction for deciding on Strategies and a basis for which to measure progress.
Writing Company Health and Wellness Program goals
Writing Company [...]
Employee Wellness Programs: employee Health Services and employee Benefits
Small and large organizations carry a significant proportion of the provision of health care for families in this country by offering healthcare insurance for their employees. With the escalating increase in healthcare cost many organizations are attempting to slow the increase of healthcare insurance premiums by offering creative cost control programs. Greater emphasis is being [...]
Gathering information on staff member health behaviors
If your corporation is interested in measuring the impact of your Company Health and Wellness Program efforts in future years, you’ll want to gather relevant baseline data on the health and health behaviors of your staff member population.
Company Health and Wellness Program Data on your staff member population
Health Risk Assessments
Some health plans offer organizations free [...]
Employee Wellness Programs: nutrition and physical fitness Programs
nutrition and physical fitness programs have demonstrated effectiveness in delaying the onset of employee morbidity while enhancing self esteem, stress management and general feelings of well being. Although many nutrition and physical fitness programs are instructional in nature, they should go beyond educational programs by offering enabling supports for the adoption of healthy behaviors.
Quality Employee [...]
Assessment of workplace culture and setting
In addition to looking at the health behaviors of staff members, take a good look at your corporation. The following questions can help you establish opportunities for your corporation to support and encourage healthy behaviors among staff members.
A strong foundation for employee health improvement
1. To what extent does the senior management in your corporation actively [...]
Employee Wellness Programs: Health Education
Health education is easily integrated into all the areas of comprehensive Employee Wellness Plans and it is unlikely that any of the areas could survive without an educational component. It is a primary element of every primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention program and a way of promoting wellness and optimal health. A comprehensive health education [...]