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Wellness and Employees Satisfaction

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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Introduction Education institutions in the Philippines, traditionally, focused on the curriculum and student achievement. They tend to forget that their tool for molding these students are also worth of their gratitude and deserve to be treated as important as the students. Also, with the tons of work teachers have, like preparing lesson plans, modules, assessments and other things related to teaching, they are experiencing stress, pressure that affect quality of work. This is the reason why most of the education institutions offer wellness program for their employees. This is to give their employees a chance to relax and have time to rejuvenate. Of course, most of the schools offer it for free because we all know money is also an issue for school employees here in the Philippines. But the main issue here is that, does wellness program gives satisfaction to school employees. This may cause an institution additional expense because they need to allocate fund for the wellness program of their employees. Some researches says that such program may improve employees health, morale and productivity as well. So, if this is also the thinking of the owner he/she might not worry about expenses, because in return the employees will become more productive and they will find work as a fun and fulfilling.

Now, with all the studies made, is wellness programs really satisfy employees? How can they prove that there is satisfaction? Are the employees given a chance to choose wellness program that they believe would fit their interest?Are there evaluation tools to assess if the program/s is/are effective? These are jusy few inquiries that may be answered throug a thorough research. The researcher got very much interested in determining the satisafaction of employees with their work with the