Best Practices health and wellness strategies
What jobs have in common when it show the best practices in their health and wellness initiatives that come from?
They show a remarkable commitment to the understanding of employees’ health and well-being and offer innovative, targeted and initiatives. Their programs focus on comprehensive physical and mental health, work-life balance and financial wellbeing. have a strategic and effective evaluation of programs, more innovative and successful health and wellness initiatives led.
Benefits for individuals and jobs
The benefits of these programs are diverse in people and organizations.
Ive found some cases of potentially life-saving measures and evidence of positive changes in life in areas such as work-life balance, exercise, fitness, nutrition and weight loss.
Benefits for the workplace include:
1st positive impact on the retention, recruitment and engagement;
2nd Declines in the applications of stress, lost-time claims for workers’ compensation and absenteeism;
3rd Enhanced reputation
4th personal feeling proud to be part of such organizations.
Creating an excellent initiative
A good example of an organization with an excellent health and the current program Greenslopes Private Hospital (GPH).
The GPH Wellness Center was launched in 2003 and offers employees an opportunity to have their health and well-being improved. In 2005 the hospital a new “WorkLife GPH @” initiative, the Human Resources (HR), Health and Safety (OHS), Learning and Development, Greenslopes Wellness Program and Social Club has launched includes Library. This was developed to provide a more coordinated action and cooperation for the welfare of the organization.
“With an increasingly competitive labor market and increase the shortage of nurses, the flexibility of operation and program of Welfare GPH as a key recruitment and retention strategy implemented.
Other drivers of corporate social responsibility, an aging workforce, work intensification, higher costs of compensation for employees walking to their work expectations, and “the talk” as an organization, health care, “said Long Renae, GPH manager of human resources.
Long said: “In GPH we have a wide range of options for changing lifestyles and family needs. Because we are a hospital and as such are operating 24 / 7 is from one of our employees the opportunity suitable working hours, their family, education and lifelong commitments. “
GPH offers a wide range of flexible work practices and welfare options. These include the EAP program, gym, child care on site, many opportunities for professional development, external grants and fellowships for staff, establishing a system of recognition and rewards, paid maternity leave, financial support for well-being, a bistro subsidized staff offer healthy meal facilities, Internet access through work or in personal Bistro IT estates, and many many more initiatives.
Renae along GPH said: “The benefits of our initiatives for employees to improve the health and well-being, job satisfaction, work-life balance, productivity and financial literacy and retirement planning. This allows our staff job satisfaction and is supported by our Course lien secured.
Leadership, management commitment and employee commitment are the key to the success of social programs. This commitment and dedication required of managers role modeling, guidance, training, promotion of dialogue and demanding evaluation.
