Study shows your boss can influence
your health!
New York: It is a known fact that
managers have a huge influence on employees' behaviour. They also play a huge
role in creating the best work environment – from helping a new employee get
settled in a job to getting other employees meet their deadlines.
Now, a new study finds that manager
leadership may be the key to employee health programs and goals, suggesting
that they be provided with incentives to focus on creating a healthier work
environment.
"Instead of focusing on individual
wellness outcomes, we propose that it would be more effective if managers were
incentivised to create healthier overall work environments with simple, easy to
implement actions such as installing a water cooler, providing healthy snacks
at meetings, and encouraging work/life balance," said lead author Rebecca
Robbins from Cornell University in New York, US.
The initiative requires tapping into
the manager`s ability to lead his or her team to wellness and can, as a result,
have a big payoff in terms of creating a culture of health at the workplace,
and could tip the scales toward healthier employees.
The study surveyed 270 adults with
manager roles and found that 68 percent supported the idea of being evaluated
by their employee wellness actions.
The study, published in the Journal of Occupational Health
Psychology, finds that increase in employee wellness and motivation can be
achieved by tying just 10 percent of managerial salary increases to health
initiatives.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
16.02.2016
Patience and
time do more than strength or passion
Jean
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