Health and wellness in the workplace Octavio Ponce COMM/112 September 18, 2012 Karen Hamilton Health and wellness in the workplace Health and wellness programs in the workplace can greatly benefit the company and their employee’s at personal and business levels. It is no surprise that a manufacturing company cannot run an efficient business without their employees being present at the job site. However, with health cost steadily keeps rising and costing the company lots of money, they cannot
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programs to promote long-term wellness. There can be several benefits received as a result of a wellness program. A workplace wellness initiative can help a company to: • attract and keep employees; • reduce the costs of disability, drugs, and absenteeism; • reduce the effects of a stressful workplace; • reduce health costs or keep them contained; and • improve morale by creating a happy, supportive environment. Employees of companies that have a workplace wellness program are likely to have:
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business owners and corporations will benefits by having health and wellness programs in the workplace. Having such programs will help employees prevent workplace illnesses, injuries, reduce obesity rate, as well as the use of tobacco, and lower the absenteeism. Health care cost presents a substantial threat to the U.S. economy. Health care spending has risen dramatically as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) over the past 30 years and is projected to rise 38% faster than GDP over the next
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topic): Hand-washing with soap &water could reduce diarrheal disease up to 50 %( World Health Organization, 2001). Hand washing can reduce the risk of respiratory infections by 16% Using alcohol hand sanitizers in classrooms provided a reduction in absenteeism due to infection by 19.8% among 16 elementary schools and 6,000 students (Hammond, et al 2000). Nursing Diagnosis: Risk for Infection R/T 1. Age 2. Lack of awareness Readiness for Learning: Identify the factors that would indicate
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Behavior: What does research (evidence) tell us about these relationships? Attitudes & Job Satisfaction: (p142+) Outcomes of Job Satisfaction: Job Satisfaction & Performance: (p144) Job Satisfaction & Turnover: (p145) Job Satisfaction & Absenteeism: (p145) Organizational Commitment: What is it? Why is it important to the study of OB? (p146+)
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performance. Also, employees will experience responsibility for outcomes of the work. Overall, work quality and performance will increase so as the high satisfaction with the work. Knowledge of the actual results of the work activities will decrease absenteeism and turnover rate. Hence, the job characteristics model is important in shaping and forming better employees so that goals can be
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change, this directly speaks to the Sugar Revolution as it included dynamic changes in economic and political situations and social aspects of life in the lesser Antilles, as evidenced by changes in the cost of landholdings, social stratification, Absenteeism and Monoculture upon many others. Since the term revolution has been clarified, it can be said that the Greater Antilles did not experience a true revolution as sugar cane was planted alongside other crops such as indigo, cotton and tobacco as in
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highest ability since all of them are treated equal and fairly. Since productivity is higher, profit will then increase, and so does the return of investment. With better interpersonal communication between its people, it reduces the chances of absenteeism and attrition too as the undue stress, unnecessary frustration or low morale due to being insensitive, discriminatory etc gets drastically
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ethic which is its one of the most important parts of Turkey’s work culture. Other important features of demographic characteristics of Turkish force is composed of high productivity that consists of the age factor of the worker population, low absenteeism that is generally coincided with young workers and its annual working hour rates, which are considered as one of the higher countries. Furthermore, as it is known that Turkey has a multinational population in its geographic position. Therefore
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article (Incentive Edge', 1994) stated that incentives could be used in any part of an organization with equal effect. Some of the benefits that arise from incentives are upswings in sales and market share, better productivity and quality, lower absenteeism and employee turnover, improved safety and work habits, and improved loyalty and teamwork. Corporate and Managerial Role Corporations have an extreme interest in the success of employee incentive programs. The more successful these are the more
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