Organizational Wellness Program Implementation and Evaluation

Abstract

: Employee wellness programs can provide benefits to institutions as well as employees and their families. Despite the attempts of some organizations to implement programs that take a holistic approach to improve physical, mental, and social wellness, the most common programs are exclusively comprised of physical and nutritional components. In this study, we implemented a wellness program intervention, including training using a holistic approach to improve the wellbeing of middle managers in several multinational organizations. We included control and experimental groups to measure wellness and teamwork with two repeated measures. Our results indicated that employees receiving the intervention had improved measures of wellness and teamwork. A positive relationship was found between wellness and teamwork in the experimental group when compared with the control group. Taken together, the data suggest that implementation of these programs would provide valuable outcomes for both employees and organizations.

Must It Be Lonely at the Top? Developing Leader Well-Being in Organizations

“…There is also a link between an organization’s posture towards ethics and the leaders’ well-being in the form of increased work engagement (Huhtala et al, 2011). Research suggests that for organizations to promote leader well-being, they should establish wellness programs, flexible work breaks, and mindfulness practices as well as promote detachment from work once home (Lanaj et al, 2021; Medina et al, 2018). This latter point can be particularly difficult for leaders who are often responsible for organizational operations around the clock.…”

“…Training leaders in team management can also increase leaders' psychological well-being under certain conditions (Nielsen & Daniels, 2012). Wellness training has shown significant changes in leaders' wellness among middle managers following the completion of a wellness program (Medina et al, 2018).…”

“…Mindfulness meditation groups would also be beneficial in combatting negative outcomes such as burnout, depression, and anxiety for leaders (Gabriel & Aguinis, 2021; Roche et al, 2014), which represents a low-cost intervention that could result in a desirable payoff for organizations. Organizations would also do well to invest in wellness programs that are designed to improve wellness for all employees, especially leaders (Lanaj et al, 2021; Medina et al, 2018). Such programs typically include exercise components that help control workplace stress (Burton et al, 2012).…”

Measuring the Health Related Quality of Life and Economic Burden of Illness Among Migrant Workers With Pneumoconiosis

“…The latent construct of the scale is captured by three dimensions. First, the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Brief provides important references, which measure domains of physical health, psychological health, social relationship, and independent ability, and has been publicly demonstrated as an appropriate construct to assess QOL 10–12 . Second, the COPD-QOL scale is applied to reflect the symptom and influence of respiratory diseases, which is established based on China’s national conditions and has been widely used and demonstrated strong validity and reliability 13 .…”

“…First, the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Brief provides important references, which measure domains of physical health, psychological health, social relationship, and independent ability, and has been publicly demonstrated as an appropriate construct to assess QOL. [10][11][12] Second, the COPD-QOL scale is applied to reflect the symptom and influence of respiratory diseases, which is established based on China's national conditions and has been widely used and demonstrated strong validity and reliability. 13 Third, referring that health literacy plays a positive role in patients' health education and ego health care, 14,15 it is believed that investigating the health literacy of pneumoconiosis patients before providing interventions or education is necessary; thus, the item for evaluating health literacy is innovatively proposed in the scale in this study.…”