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Transitioning From Employee Well-being To Healthy Organization

HR Digest

It’s your duty as an employer or human resource manager to consider what factors could bring this goal to light. This, in turn, can lead to reduced absenteeism and improved productivity. Promoting healthy lifestyle habits might also include offering resources for stress management and offering mental health business imperatives.

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Are You Taking Care of Busyness and Working Overtime?

The Practical Leader

Participants were left alone in a lab room for 15 minutes with no devices, pens, or reading material. Gallen in Switzerland, and Jochen Menges, lecturer in human resources and organizations at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School. Busyness reduces engagement and increases absenteeism.

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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

Department of Health and Human Services. It’s not clear whether the authors are intentionally dismissing or simply misunderstanding the wealth of data that shows how wellness programs benefit participating employees. Health Human resources' trillion in lost productivity annually in the U.S.

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How to Improve the Engagement and Retention of Young Hourly Workers

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, employee disengagement results in higher absenteeism, more accidents, lower business profitability, worse customer service, and a lower share price. Offer professional-development opportunities. Ninety-eight percent of participants are people of color, 65% are women, and all are from low-income backgrounds.

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This Coalition of 20 Companies Thinks It Can Change U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Given what we have learned from studying, advising, and participating in ongoing and past efforts by employers to improve health care, using collective power as leverage often is not sufficient to drive meaningful change. Its 20 founding members should encourage others in their local markets to participate in their initiatives.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

Worse yet, they’ll sometimes hire different vendors to address different issues – lifestyle coaches, employee assistance counselors, case and disease management vendors, nurse lines, occupational health and safety experts, workers’ compensation specialists, disability managers, organizational development consultants, you name it.

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What I’ve Learned from Talking About My Bipolar Disorder at Work

Harvard Business Review

About half of employers would not wish to employ a person with a psychiatric diagnosis (Manning and White, 1995) and two-thirds of employers in the private sector and in small and medium-sized companies report that they have never knowingly done so (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 2007).