Archive for April, 2009
Employer Wellness : What Is A Comprehensive Employee Wellness Program?
Comprehensive Employee Wellness Programs involve all employees, deal with all major health risks, offers choices, and target both the employees and the worksite environment; offer periodic assessment of its results. Comprehensive Employee Wellness Programs emphasize follow-up and offers reinforcement for the employee as long as he/she is employed. Studies have established this approach to be [...]
Employer Wellness : Company Health Promotion Programs: Economic Considerations
Initially introduced by Halbert Dunn in the 1950’s, wellness became a popular buzzword during the late 1970’s and received considerable academic attention in the 1980’s. Company Wellness Programs for staff members became more widespread during the following decade, and credible evidence for their economic viability began to be published. There have now been over 100 [...]
Employer Wellness : Corporate Health Promotion Programs: Effective Components
Business America is increasingly investing in employee wellness because it is good business. In order to meet productiveness demands, businesses must rely on a healthy, constructive workforce to succeed in the highly competitive global marketplace. Over a hundred studies in both corporate and governmental settings have documented the economic benefits of Workplace Health Promotion Programs, [...]
Employer Wellness : Workplace Health Promotion Program: Outcome Evaluation
Evaluations determine the outcome of a Employee Wellness Program. They help you learn if your objectives were met. It is a good idea to add an assessment component to your Employee Wellness Program.
Evaluations may conclude that some interventions didn’t work well. You may learn that a popular Worksite Wellness Program costs too much and didn’t [...]
Employer Wellness : Corporate Health Promotion Program: Incentive Seletion
Incentives encourage employees to adopt beneficial behaviors or maintain an existing beneficial behavior that may potentially help the employee stay healthy and live longer. Adopting beneficial health behavior is fundamentally what wellness is about.
Incentives can be used to stimulate participation rates, help people complete a Worksite Health Promotion Program, or help people change or adhere [...]
Employer Wellness : Workplace Health Promotion Program Activities: Design and Implementation
When creating a inclusive Employee Health Promotion Program, make sure that it consists of a variety of awareness, lifestyle change, supportive environment programs, policies and activities that target risk behaviors, and the needs and interests of the staff members. It will be valuable to review and revise existing policies governing such areas as smoking sections [...]
Employer Wellness : Workplace Health Promotion Program: Developing Goals and Objectives
Design objectives and goals
Goals are general ground rules that explain what you want to achieve. Objectives define strategies or steps to take to attain the identified intention.
A wellness program should have a “destination”. Use the outcome of your surveys and your wellness committee’s mission statement as guides. Consider these ideas:
• Focus on making health [...]
Employer Wellness : Workplace Health Promotion Program Needs and Interest Survey
Effective wellness programs are designed to meet the needs and interests of the workers. Ask workers what they are interested in, and what needs they have. People are more willing to take part and support wellness efforts if they are involved in the decision-making process.
When creating a survey, keep the following hints in mind:
• [...]
Employer Wellness : Establish a Company Health Promotion Program Committee
A essential first step in organizing your company’s wellness program is the formation of a Worksite Health Promotion Program Committee. The focus of the Worksite Health Promotion Program Committee is to plan, encourage, and implement the program. The Worksite Health Promotion Program Committee establishes continuity, motivation, and broad ownership of the program as well as [...]
Employer Wellness : Company Wellness Program: Obtaining Senior Leadership Support
Support from upper management is essential to building a efficacious wellness program! Visible upper management support is one of the most vital factors in the success of a worksite Corporate Wellness Program. Management executives are responsible for making sure that the company meets its objectives. They can support additional assistance by helping you to link [...]