Organisation Wellbeing

So you have done process re-engineering, Total Quality Management and all the other organisational productivity improvement initiatives that the organisation guru's have advised, yet productivity improvement has been disappointing. Have you considered the possibility that your employees don't have the physical and emotional capacity to embrace your initiatives?

Competitive edge through preventative wellbeing strategies

Currently most wellbeing programmes are focused on a curative approach to health. Very few programmes focus on preventing poor health through health promotion, ensuring that employees are aware of their health and fitness status through testing and then encouraging good health practices by including health and fitness goals as part of the employees performance management.

59% of all employees have health problems

Recent research done of all new employees appointed, showed only 41% did not have health problems. 31% had health problems that would impact on their work performance in the future and the other 28% had health problems which would prevent them from doing a particular job.

The health and fitness profile of a company can give leadership an excellent indication of employees ability to meet organisation challenges and provide measureable criteria against which to map productivity and absenteeism improvements.

Illness can cost a small enterprise of only 350 employees, R2 million per year in sick leave days. How much is it costing your organisation? Poor health in most cases can be improved with a few basic health practices. Thus you could be improving the bottomline with an effective wellbeing strategy.