Effects of Wellness Programs on Job Satisfaction, Stress and Absenteeism between Two Groups of Employees (Attended and Not Attended)

Abdullah, Dayang Nailul Munna Abg; Lee, Oon Yin

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.11.152

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“…Nevertheless, the study from [17], indicated that there are limited workplace health promotion (WHP) that showed a significant cut down in mean total cholesterol levels and cigarettes smoked. [18] concluded that the wellness programs help in reducing the impact of stress at the workplace, improve overall employee satisfaction, as well as help in reducing absenteeism.…”

Section: Workplace Health Promotion (Whp)mentioning

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The Emerging Web 2.0 Social Media as a Tool to Develop Engaged Audiences for Behaviour Change in Health Promotion: An Overview

AuYong

Yeoh

2017

SHS Web Conf.

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Abstract. Sharing of health information which is related to health becomes easier with the introduction of new technologies such as Web 2.0 social media networks. Social media networks represent a rather innovative way of online information and knowledge repositories. On the other hand, many non-communicable diseases are caused by unhealthy urban lifestyle. Hence, the practice of the healthy lifestyle behaviors should be promoted for sustainability. Besides, in order to cut down the chronic diseases, workplace is one of the key channels for the delivery of interventions among adult populations. Latest development in information and communication technologies (ICT) has given positive influences in health communication. The new technology is believed to be more engaged because it involves visual, audio and animation simultaneously, thus it is more reachable and collaborative. This paper reviews strategies to manage health promotion. Nevertheless, improvement is still needed to achieve successful health promotion. This paper also provides insights of issues and poses future topics of health promotion to consider.

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Section: Workplace Health Promotion (Whp)mentioning

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The Emerging Web 2.0 Social Media as a Tool to Develop Engaged Audiences for Behaviour Change in Health Promotion: An Overview

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Yeoh

2017

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“…The main concept underlying these programs was that the individual's lifestyle contributed directly to a person's health and organizations need to help individuals change their unhealthy lifestyles. While these programs continue to flourish, other researchers pointed to the link between environmental factors and employee health, especially the effect that stress (an individual's physical and mental reaction to environmental demands or pressures) has on an employee's health [5,39,40].…”

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“…Consequently, less stress is introduced into one's life. This in turn encourages a person to look for more experience and more learning opportunities (based on [5,14,39,40]).…”

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“…If an employee experiences an increased sense of well-being, he tends to be less absent and more productive at work. This in turn provides him with more opportunities to take more actions and develop more skills and knowledge (based on [5,16,17,39]).…”

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“…This causes a person to experience a greater distance from his/her desired comfort zone. The greater the perceived gap with respect to one's comfort zone, the greater the chances that he will get sick, a state that provides him with an escape route to lower his/her stress (based on [5,39,40]). This dynamic hypothesis deals with the linkage between stress and illness.…”

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Organizations are complex social systems, and as such, they ought to be approached through a systems thinking viewpoint in order to understand the whole rather than just the parts. The purpose of this literature review is to outline the complex interdependent relationship between organizational effectiveness, employees' health and quality culture. This review will open with the notion of organizations as complex social systems. Then, it will describe possible applications of systems thinking in two parts: The first part will discuss quality and quality culture, and the second part will discuss employees' health in the organization. The review will include the application of system thinking and will show the important contribution of the system approach to the achievement of organizational effectiveness.

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Effects of Wellness Programs on Job Satisfaction, Stress and Absenteeism between Two Groups of Employees (Attended and Not Attended)

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The Emerging Web 2.0 Social Media as a Tool to Develop Engaged Audiences for Behaviour Change in Health Promotion: An Overview

The Emerging Web 2.0 Social Media as a Tool to Develop Engaged Audiences for Behaviour Change in Health Promotion: An Overview

The relationship between employee health, quality culture and organizational effectiveness: Findings from the literature

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