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Investing in Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion
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- A Resource for the Pursuit of Organizational Excellence -
by: Martin Shain
This resource sets out the general rationale, principles and practice of Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion (CWHP). CWHP is an approach to improving the health and ultimately the productivity of a workforce through application of the principle that the best results in these two areas are achieved when both organizational and personal influences on these factors are targetted in the context of a strategic plan.
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The purpose of this 170 page resource is to encourage and facilitate the implementation of Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion in Canada both as an end in itself and as a means of pursuing organizational excellence.
Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion is an approach to protecting and enhancing the health of employees that relies and builds upon the efforts of employers to create a supportive management culture and upon the efforts of employees to care for their own well-being.
CWHP is not a particular program or model. It is a philosophy, theory and practice of health promotion that is intended and designed to be incorporated into the Business Plans of organizations whose governors, owners and managers care about the well-being of their employees.
We believe that the CWHP approach belongs in the business plan because what is good for employee health is also good for organizational productivity, efficiency and competitiveness. In fact, health is produced or manufactured by the same processes as goods and services, so what substainably determines the quality of one, substainably determines the quality of the other.
As an approach, rather than as a program or model, CWHP is open-ended. That is, it is an ongoing work in progress which can never be completed but which can be constantly updated and improved through experience.
CWHP has been identified by the National Quality Institute as the approach to wellness that is most likely to support the pursuit and achievement of organizational excellence.
The Bottom Line
By the time you have finished reading this resource we hope you will be ready to give Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion a chance to prove itself through changes you can implement in your workplace or practice. You may be a CEO; you may be a Wellness Coordinator; you may run the EFAP for your company or be on the committee that governs it. Whatever your role, there is something you can do - by word or deed - to advance CWHP.
In the end, CWHP will mean very little unless it is incorporated into the standard operating practices and culture of an organization. It is explicitly intended for incorporation into the Business Plan of your workplace or your clients' workplace. |