Identify a contemporary issue related to work, health and wellbeing (nationally or internationally) and make recommendations for strategic improvement in this area, following a critical discussion of the evidence base for workplace health improvement in this area.
Learning outcomes (LOs) the assignment is assessing:
Knowledge & Understanding (LOs)
- a comprehensive understanding of contemporary issues in work, health and wellbeing, nationally and internationally
- a critical awareness of the drivers and challenges, including the building case, of workplace health promotion
Why do we need to reduce the Muscoluskeletal disorder among office workers in workplace – or carry out workplace health promotion to reduce it (cost, psychological impact, organizational impact, levels of sickness absence) – drivers…
- Challenges – what are the difficulties in doing this?
- the ability to critically evaluate the world of work and the impact of leadership and management on workplace health
- a critical evaluation of the evidence base in workplace health improvement
- a critical understanding of how to make strategic health improvements in a workplace context
Transferable skills:
- Identify and gather literature and other data related to work, health and wellbeing
- Analyze and critically evaluate the evidence available in respect of work, health and wellbeing,
- Demonstrate written and oralcommunication skills
- Identify and define the information required on a given topic and use research skills to identify relevant information resources, using IT and literacy skills
- Manage and critically evaluate the information found and reference appropriately
References may help: ( This resources recommended from the tutor. Use the resource that match my topic)
- Hussain A (2013) ‘Effective communication brings successful organizational change’ The Business & Management Review, Vol.3(2)
- Cocks G (2014),”Optimising pathways for an organisational change management programme”, The TQM Journal, Vol. 26 Iss 1 pp. 88 – 97
- CDC (2013) Workplace Health Model
- European Agency for Safety & Health at Work (2005) Workplace Health Promotion –
- WHO (2010) Healthy Workplaces: a model for action for employers, workers, policy-makers and practitioners –
Also include Evaluating Workplace health promotion interventions:
- Workplace Health Promotion (WHP) is defined as ‘the combined efforts of employers, employees and society to improve the health and wellbeing of people at work. This is achieved through a combination of: improving the work organisation and working environment: promoting the participation of workers in the whole process of WHP; enabling health choices, and encouraging personal development’ (European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, 2005).
- There are number of workplace health models including the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Model (CDC, 2013), which has 4 steps:
- Assessment – to define employee health risks and concerns and describe current health promotion activities, capacity and needs
- Planning – to develop the components of a workplace health programme including determining goals, prioritising interventions and building the organisational infrastructure
- Implementation – putting strategies and interventions in place and making them available to employees
- Evaluation – investigating the worth and quality of the programme
- The World Health Organisation (2010) healthy workplace model breaks these steps into eight processes, which include: mobilize; assemble; assess; prioritise; plan; do; evaluate; and improve. WHO (2010) highlight core principles of: ethics and values; leadership engagement, and worker involvement, with areas for action identified as:
- The physical work environment
- Personal health resources
- Enterprise community involvement
Psychosocial work environment
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