Determining organisation-specific factors for developing health interventions in companies by a Delphi procedure: Organisational mapping

Companies, seen as social communities, are major health promotion contexts. However, health promotion in the work setting is often less successful than intended. An optimal adjustment to the organisational context is required. Knowledge of which organisation-specific factors are relevant to health promotion is scarce. A Delphi procedure is used...

Vitality at work and its associations with lifestyle, self-determination, organizational culture, and with employees' performance and sustainable employability

BACKGROUND: Vitality at work is an important factor for optimal functioning and sustainable employability. To date, knowledge on how to promote vitality at work is fragmented. OBJECTIVE: Contribute to knowledge on how to promote vitality at work. METHODS: Determinants of vitality at work are identified from three scientific fields, and used in a...

Inducing a health-promoting change process within an organization the Effectiveness of a Large-Scale Intervention on Social Capital, Openness, and Autonomous Motivation Toward Health

Objective: To examine the effectiveness of an organizational large-scale intervention applied to induce a health-promoting organizational change process. Design and Methods: A quasi-experimental, "as-treated" design was used. Regression analyses on data of employees of a Dutch dairy company (n =324) were used to examine the effects on bonding...

Motivations for Health and Their Associations With Lifestyle, Work Style, Health, Vitality, and Employee Productivity

Objective: Investigate employees' underlying motivational regulatory styles toward healthy living and their associations with lifestyle, work style, health, vitality, and productivity. Methods: Regression analyses on cross-sectional data from Dutch employees (n = 629), obtained as baseline measurement before a workplace health promotion project....

The core values that support health, safety, and well-being at work

Health, safety, and well-being (HSW) at work represent important values in themselves. It seems, however, that other values can contribute to HSW. This is to some extent reflected in the scientific literature in the attention paid to values like trust or justice. However, an overview of what values are important for HSW was not available. Our...

The associations between organizational social capital, perceived health, and employeese performance in two dutch companies

OBJECTIVE: To examine the associations between organizational (bonding, bridging, and linking) social capital, employees' health, and employees' performance. METHODS: Linear regression on cross-sectional data among 718 employees in two Dutch companies. RESULTS: Organizational social capital was significantly associated with perceived health (β =...

A longitudinal study on the effects of health policy in organizations on job satisfaction, burnout, and sickness absence

Objective: The present study examines the effects of health policy in organizations as perceived by employees on their job satisfaction, burnout, and sickness absence. METHODS: The data were collected with Internet questionnaires in a longitudinal three-wave design among a heterogeneous sample of 1004 employees. RESULTS: The study shows that a...

Implicit strategies to improve work and well-being: The social dimensions of organizational excellence

Significant improvements in health and well-being can be created as implicit by-products of activities from agents other than health professionals, with each of these agents having their own prime (i.e. parallel) interests. For this reason, more relevant strategies and interventions for promoting health and well-being at work exist than are...

Internalizing core values as a fundament for workers health, well-being and safety in a changing world of work

Organizational culture is a health influencing factor at work. Moreover culture is a relative stable construct in a rapid hanging world. Internalizing of core values is suggested as health promotion strategies in companies.

The organizational benefits of investing in workplace health

Purpose - A healthy and vital workforce is an asset to any organization. Workplace health management and health promotion are therefore increasingly relevant for organizations. This paper aims to identify the organizational benefits companies strive for, and analyzes the ways companies use and manage data in order to monitor, evaluate and...

Gezondheidsmanagement leeft in 2020!

De demografische ontwikkelingen, globalisering, intensivering van arbeid en toenemende welvaartsziekten dwingen bedrijven aandacht te besteden aan het vitaliseren van hun personeelsbestand. Daarvoor zijn individuele en collectieve interventies relevant. Gezondheidsmanagement zal daardoor in 2020 hoger op de agenda van bedrijven en overheid staan...

Integriertes Gesundheitsmanagement Perspektive 2020: Gesundheit, Zukunft und Innovation?