Archive for October, 2008
Corporate Wellness Program: Conditions for Success
1. Senior management involvement in the Corporate Wellness Program- Evidence of enthusiastic commitment and involvement of senior management helps staff members understand their employers’ 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 [...]
Benefits of Corporate Wellness Programs
Introduction to Corporate Wellness Programs
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 setting and support system, Corporate Wellness Programs can have a great impact on lowering high-risk behaviors. This impact results in lower [...]
How to Write Corporate Wellness Plan Goals and Objectives
Why have Corporate Wellness Plan objectives?
Corporate Wellness Plan objectives take your business’s priorities for employee health improvement and make them specific and measurable. Well-defined Corporate Wellness Plan objectives provide direction for determining Procedures and a basis for which to measure progress.
Writing Corporate Wellness Plan objectives
Writing Corporate Wellness Plan objectives is not complicated or difficult. It [...]
Collecting information on staff member health behaviors
If your business is interested in measuring the impact of your Corporate Wellness Plan efforts in future years, you’ll want to gather relevant baseline data on the health and health behaviors of your staff member population.
Corporate Wellness Plan Data on your staff member population
Health Risk Assessments
Some health plans offer employers free web-based Health Risk Assessments, [...]
Assessment of worksite culture and environment
In addition to looking at the health behaviors of staff members, take a good look at your business. The following questions can help you identify opportunities for your business 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 business actively [...]