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Workplace health management in municipal organizations: the perspective of senior managersTRANSCRIPT
Workplace health management in municipal organizations: the perspective of senior managers
Robert Larsson, Ingemar Åkerlind & Hélène Sandmark
Mälardalen University, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Västerås, Sweden
7th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference, ”Promoting Health in Everyday Settings: Opportunities and Challenges”, Vestfold, Norway, 2013
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● Shift towards, how organizational factors affect employee health
● Integration of WHP and OSH [e.g. 1, 2]
● WHP should be integrated into the organization’s regular management practices [3]
Less knowledge about if and how this is done…
● Need for WHP-studies in public sector organizations
Background
[1] Goetzel et al., 2008 [2] EU-OSHA, 2010 [3] Chu et al., 2000
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Aim
…to explore how health promotion is managed within a municipal organizational context, and also to describe how workplace health could be incorporated into the general management system
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●Large employers with the responsibility of providing public services
●Variation in organization, human resource policy, conditions etc.
●Previous research indicates poor employee health
Research settingThe municipal employer context
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Design: Qualitative approach
Sampling strategy: Managers were purposefully selected from two municipal organizations
Senior managers (SM) = higher management positions
SMs representing a variety of municipal departments
(m = 250 employees)
Data collection: Semistructured face-to-face interviews
Analysis: Qualitative content analysis
Research design
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The domination of wellness
Provision of activities Organizational support
WHP partly integrated intothe management system
Employee survey as driving force Shortcomings in implementationand follow-up
Findings “We offer exercise during working hours. You can exercise one hour/week. We have fruit. We do health profiles where all are invited to participate, and you may also have an interview afterwards, where you can follow-up on your result.”
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Development of leadership competence
Ambitious leadership programmes OHS training
The political influence
Health-related policies To be an “attractive” employer
Findings
“Now, the municipality have decided how
money for wellness should be used. There is a general decision.”
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● Selection bias? Some chose not to participate. Those with little interest/knowledge about WHP?
● Transferability limited to public sector organizations with similar conditions
● How to not only get “politically correct statements” and “on the surface information” about WHP?
Limitations and challenges
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Preliminary findings concerning how WHP is managed by senior management
The domination of wellness WHP partly integrated into the management
system
Improved management practice concerning WHP…
…could ultimately affect the health of municipal employees
Summary and implications
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Thank you for your attention!
contact: [email protected]
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1. Goetzel, R.Z., Ozminkowski, R.J., Bowen, J. & Tabrizi, M.J. (2008). Employer integration of health promotion and health protection programs. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 1(2), 109 -122.
2. European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. (2010). Mainstreaming OSH into business management. Luxembourg: Office for Official publications of the European Communities.
3. Chu, C., Breucker, G., Harris, N., Stitzel, A., Gan, X., Gu, X. et al. (2000). Health-promoting workplaces – international settings development. Health Promot Int., 15, 155-167.
4. Shain, M., & Kramer, D.M. (2004) Health promotion in the workplace: Framing the concept; reviewing the evidence. Occup Environ Med., 61(7), 643-648.
5. Polanyi, M.F., Frank, J.W., Shannon, H.S., Sullivan, T.J., & Lavis, J.N. (2000). Promoting the determinants of good health in the workplace. In: B.D. Poland, L.W. Green, & I. Rootman (Eds.) Settings for health promotion: Linking theory and practice. (pp.138-160). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
6. DeJoy, D.M., & Southern, D.J. (1993). An integrative perspective on work-site health promotion. J Occup Med., 35(12), 1221-1230.
7. Chu, C., & Dwyer, S. (2002). Employer role in integrative workplace health management: A new model in progress. Dis Manage Health Outcomes, 10(3), 175-186.
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