A healthier workplace improves employee health that leads to higher productivity outcomes for employers A healthier workplace improves employee health that leads to higher productivity outcomes for employers Health and well-being of the workplace is a major concern yet little research has been done on the culture of corporate wellness and health leadership.
To function effectively in today’s workplace people must ensure they have good mental, physical and emotional health, yet some peoples’ health experiences are so unrewarding that they consciously or unconsciously allow their health to deteriorate into a state of chronic disease. On the other hand an increasing objective for business is to try and optimise the health-related behaviours of its workforce in the work environment as medical costs are becoming more the responsibility of employers and greater awareness of better health conditions is required. A healthier workplace improves employee health that leads to higher productivity outcomes for employers
Corporate Wellness Leadership
Over the past few decades chronic disease has become a major problem for individuals, governments, organisations and society. It is prevalent globally yet research shows there is more depression, obesity, cancer, and diabetes in the Western countries. The effects have consequences both on the economic functioning of business, and the impact on employees’ physical, emotional and mental state.
Peoples’ health conditions are affected by many variables and, whether there is unwillingness, or ignorance to manage one’s own health, this leads to chronic disease. Even with the increase in services to restore health, it is a burgeoning social and health problem that places reliance on an already overloaded health care system. This creates economic burden on the individual as well as the well-being of the community, the workplace, and society.
The conclusions that we can draw from various research and studies that have been conducted so far is that we need to create a proactive culture of health management as both a health leadership imperative and an education process that involves constant changes within people, their environment, the workplace and business. More research into what works in corporate wellness is required to understand and focus on examining cultural, social, economic, environmental and psychological factors of behaviours, and health risk factors impacts of the corporate health care management space and health leadership.