Healthy Individuals in Healthy Organisations
Monday, 22 March 2010 14:19
Improving work-related health and the quality of working life can have a dramatic impact on sickness absence, performance and staff retention - therefore...
This ESRC-funded project has been designed to help to develop healthier organisations that can facilitate and sustain individuals' work-related health and quality of working life. It goes beyond partial views of work-related health that focus on the individual and their job to examine important characteristics in the broader organisational context.
Organisations can benefit from this research project by:
- - obtaining an assessment of work-related health (e.g. job satisfaction, sickness absence, turnover, performance)
- obtaining an assessment of the factors that can affect work-related health and the quality of working life
- using this assessment for benchmarking and/or as part of the HSE's 5-step approach to risk management
- using the assessment to support interventions to improve work-related health
- demonstrating a proactive, evidence-based approach to promoting health at work
Involvement in this project is at no cost to participating organisations. By taking part organisations can gain access to expertise in the assessment and management of health at work. For more information go to: http://wellbeingincontext.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/detailed-information-on-the-project.pdf
To take part in this innovative work and to help develop a healthier organisation contact:
Dr Maria Karanika-Murray Dr George Michaelides
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Division of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
This research is supported by the Economic & Social Research Council's First Grant Scheme (grant number RES-061-25-0344; "Understanding how impacts on health and well-being: The role of the organizational context")
