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WHE01: 5 Components of Workforce Health Engagement

Engaging Leader

Workforce health engagement: improving the knowledge, decision-making, and behaviors of employees, their families, and organizational leaders to optimize health outcomes, control medical costs, and enhance workplace productivity. The post WHE01: 5 Components of Workforce Health Engagement appeared first on Engaging Leader.

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What are the leading causes of employee grievances?

HR Digest

Surprisingly, work type can also influence employee grievances. They can also begin to ask why they haven’t received promotions or complain over health care coverage and other related programs. Discrimination.

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Promoting the Non-Obvious Candidate

Harvard Business Review

A commercial leader in financial services moved over to a health care business, bringing with her the ability to structure deals and work closely with C-suite executives. Her multi-dimensional perspective and consultative, solution-based approach were extremely well received by the health care business’ customers.

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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

And, in perhaps the most baffling statement of all, the authors suggest that workplace wellness initiatives are “trying to manipulate health behaviors that are largely unrelated to enterprise success ” (emphasis mine). What are the behaviors that corporate wellness initiatives are trying to influence? Health Human resources'

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Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out

Harvard Business Review

Marketing often influences consumers through unconscious habits, as described in Charles Duhigg’s book, “ The Power of Habit.” Consider the potential to influence employee behaviors in arenas such as employee benefits, health care and wellness. Human resources Information & technology Managing people'

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When Investors Want to Know How You Treat People

Harvard Business Review

Not surprisingly, the particular aspects of managing human capital that are most important vary by sector. For example, recruitment, development, and retention is particularly important in the knowledge intensive health care sector. Performance measurement Data Human resource management'

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How Google Optimized Healthy Office Snacks

Harvard Business Review

With a clearer understanding of the influences on choice — context and impulsivity, for instance — companies can design environments that reinforce employees’ healthy choices, limit potential lapses, and save on health care costs. Tweaking quantity can influence consumption.

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