Wellness Program Approval And Implementation

Obtaining approval and budget for the wellness program

Please read this section carefully before commencing the assessment tasks. You must carefully answer every question of every task and achieve a ‘satisfactory’ grade for all assessment activities to be found Competent for the unit.

There are two (2) outcomes of assessments:

S = Satisfactory

NS = Not Satisfactory (required to be re-submitted).

Students will be awarded C = Competent on completion of the unit when the student has provided the appropriate evidence required to meet all criteria of both assessments. If the student fails to meet this requirement they will receive the result NC = Not Competent and will be eligible to be re-assessed.

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ELEMENT	PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
1. Research and analyse employee health issues	1.1. Identify and collect information on employee health issues  from appropriate internal and external sources 1.2. Review findings and their implications for the organisation and business objectives  1.3. Develop options  for addressing identified health issues 1.4. Obtain support from senior managers for preferred option/s
2. Plan health and wellbeing program/s	2.1. Develop program/s scope and objectives in consultation with appropriate industry consultants, colleagues and managers 2.2. Plan and create administrative structure and resources for the program/s  2.3. Establish program responsibilities and clearly communicate to all stakeholders  2.4. Plan communications and marketing strategies in conjunction with stakeholders 2.5. Establish suitable evaluation methods, develop an overall program management plan  and communicate this plan to stakeholders
3. Implement, administer and monitor program/s	3.1. Prepare policy documents, and implement and monitor strategies in conjunction with program team members 3.2. Provide appropriate support, assistance and mentors to relevant personnel 3.3. Implement and monitor tracking systems according to program guidelines 3.4. Reach program milestones within agreed time lines and provide regular progress reports to stakeholders
4. Evaluate program/s	4.1. Use agreed evaluation methods  to assess the effectiveness of the program at specific stages 4.2. Communicate information from program evaluation process to stakeholders 4.3. Incorporate evaluation process and outcomes into continuous improvement strategies, enterprise agreements and future corporate plans

Research and explain (minimum 5) various employee health issues that affect the manufacturing industry or the industry in which you are establishing your business (Hint:For example a workplace health issue could be stress)[minimum of 100 words]

The various issues that might affect to the health of an individual are:

• Sleep Deficiency– Too less sleep can be the prime factor for the various kind of negative effects for the health of individuals. This would lead to the fact that the individual would not get enough energy for performing their work.
• Changes in Metabolism Rate – Sitting while working in the workplace might lead to severe negative impacts on the changes in the rate of metabolism within humans.
• Alcohol Consumption – High consumption of alcohol could lead to low form of interest within the workplace (Schnall et al. 2018). This could lead to tremendous form of health issues and also effect the culture of work.
• Mental Health Stability– Improper mental health growth stability might be leading to stress and other negative implications on an individual’s health.
• Diabetes – High sugar content in blood of an individual might be leading to low productivity and fatigue nature in the culture of workplace.

Explain how these 5 health issues could impact on the business (Hint:Explain the negative effect these issues could have on your business. For example, high employee absenteeism) (minimum of 20 words per issue)

Issues to Health of an Individual	Impact within the Business Scenario
Depression and anxiety	High form of anxiety or depressed nature would lead to an adverse effect on the health of an individual. This would thus lead to low kind of concentration within business environment and also effects the work culture.
Diabetes	High amount of diabetes within blood is the major cause of rising glucose levels in blood. This leads to other health issues and low energy within an individual.
Headaches	This problem is directly linked with mental stress. Excessive form of headaches would be leading to migraines that would be able to impact the culture of work.
Obesity	Excessive forms of fat within the human body might be able to pose different health issues. The deposited fats that are found within the body would lead to fatigue nature within the work culture.
Asthma	Chronic form of stress would lead to serious risks of development of asthma. This primarily leads to risks on the health of individual.

1. Create 3 overall goals for your wellness program – these must be SMART goals – https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/smart-goals.htm

1. a) The wellness program aims at teaching employees about the ways in which employees would be able to align their goals based on future endeavors.

1. b) The wellness program would also consider different financial factors.

1. c) The goal of the wellness program is also to develop the skills of the employee in order to aid them in performing well within the workplace or business environment.

1. Research and describe the various options you could use in the business for the improvement of employee health and wellbeing (Hint:Wellness options could be anything that will improve employee’s physical and mental health. For example, you might decide to implement “longer work breaks” to increase employee satisfaction) [At least 5 wellness options, minimum of 30 words per option]

Wellness Option	Description of Improvement – Employee health and wellbeing
Arrangements for  Flexible Working Conditions	The situation within the workplace should provide an enhancement of energy to the employees. Each employee should be provided with a work from home facility on a monthly basis.
Mindfulness Training	This training would help employees to release their stress levels. This would also help them to lead a balanced life. The training would also impact employees on increasing focus and be more productive.
On-site Fitness Programs	Physical activity has a huge importance in daily lives. Incorporation of different physical activities within work culture would help employees to release stress. Physical activities also includes yoga classes and seminars on stress management.
Financial Education	Proper education should also be provided in different financial aspects. Proper planning of financial aspects after job life would help an individual to lead a happy life.
Emotional Intelligence Development Training	Emotional Intelligence based concepts would help in developing the culture within work. Individuals would be helped in releasing of stress (Lopes 2016). High kind of emotional quotient would increase productivity and performance of employees.

How will you obtain approval and get senior management to pay for your wellness plan options above? – (How will you get management to approve the budget for the program)?

• Prepare a presentation planfor how you would present this wellness program for approval from senior management.
• List the stakeholders that you would need to consider.
• Attach at least 4 PowerPoint slides that you would use for the presentation.  – This is a sales presentation to get management to invest in your wellness program.

1. Section B – From your research in Section A, create an employee health and wellbeing initiative for your business with the following areas included

Planning. Choose the top 3-wellness options from Section A and complete the following sections.

1. Administration Structure  –

Tasks	Start Date	End Date	Person Responsible	Required Resources	Required Documentation
Programs based on Development of Skills	04/02/2019	16/02/2019	Business Head and HR  Managerial Head	Digital Classroom Projector device Whiteboard Laptop	Proper workplace based brochures Notebook Insurance documents
Planning of Goals and Financial education based training	18/02/2019	22/02/2019	HR  Manager and Accounting Manager Head	Digital Classroom Projector device Whiteboard Laptop	Notepad Insurance documents
Programs for On-site Fitness	24/02/2019	26/02/2019	Fitness Trainer Head	Water decanter Floor carpets Towels	Verified and Proper Health documents

1. Marketing Strategy (Hint:How will you market your wellness program to your employees?)[Minimum 50 words]

The program on healthcare wellness would be helpful for the enhancement of advertising of high qualities that are found within individuals. The organisation should distribute free samples or leaflets that would help in promotion of the program. This would also increase the participation of other people to attending the wellness program.

iii. Evaluation Method (Hint: How will you evaluate your wellness program? What statistics and feedback will you look at? – (How will you know if it is successful) [Minimum of 50 words]

The evaluation of the program for wellness of the employees will be done by evaluating their capabilities of knowledge. The wellness program designed for employees would be on the obligation for businesses and thus also aim to promote the work culture. Proper conducting of reviews will be performed after the entire completion of the wellness program.

1. Continuous Improvement System (Hint:How will you keep improving the program? Explain the continuous improvement process you will follow. [Minimum 50 words]

Different results would be found based on the proper conduction of surveys after the wellness program. Based on this, the management within the organisation would be able to understand employee concerns. They would then implement best strategies for improving efficiency of workplace scenario (Savino and Mazza 2014). The continuous form of improvement system would majorly impact the training environments of the program for the wellness of employees.

Implementation and Administration

1. Prepare and provide company policy documents for the program delivery of each of your wellness options.

 (Hint: When writing your policy, think of it as writing rules about your wellness program. You will need to create policies for all parts of your wellness program) [minimum 150 words]

On-Site Fitness Program Policy:

Class Policies:

Policy 1:  Access to program center should be entirely be based on a magnetic swipe card. The card would validate the employee during entry time. The entire duration during training program would be covered. The company would not hold any kind of responsibility if any kind of problem would occur during accessing the facility. 

Policy 2: Proper kind of attire during the time of workout is a disciplinary rule that should be strictly followed by the individuals. Based on the wearing of the attire, the employees should be allowed access within the training center. This would also ensure a proper training environment.

Policy 3: The employees should be supplied with an instruction guide that would detail the entire processes that would be imparted during the training period (McCoy et al. 2014). The instruction guide would also discuss about the severe and strict instructions that should be followed by each of the employees within the training environment.

2) System of setting program milestones / monitoring. (Hint: Milestones are important goals in the development of something. For example, a milestone for your wellness program could be to “A reduction of employee stress by 10%”) [Include at least 3 milestones for your program. These milestones can be based on your goals from Section A, Q3]

Wellness Program Milestones	Timing	Monitoring Method	Link to wellness strategy (from Section B, top 3 wellness options)
Plan for conducting of seminar based on introduction of prime idea for the program of wellness	February 6th, 2019	Formulating of an computer-based attendance tracker	Program on Expansion of Skills
Formulating a list of concerned employees based on interest within the program for employee wellness	February 8th, 2019	Computer-based system	Program on Expansion of Skills
Implementation of the wellness program	February 26th, 2019	Tracking of records of work progress	Program on Expansion of Skills

 

References

Schnall, P.L., Dobson, M., Rosskam, E. and Elling, R.H., 2018. Unhealthy work: Causes, consequences, cures. Routledge.

McCoy, M.K., Stinson, M.K., Scott, M.K., Tenney, M.L. and Newman, L.S., 2014. Health promotion in small business: a systematic review of factors influencing adoption and effectiveness of worksite wellness programs. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine/American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 56(6), p.579.

Savino, M.M. and Mazza, A., 2014. Toward environmental and quality sustainability: an integrated approach for continuous improvement. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 61(1), pp.171-181.

Lopes, P.N., 2016. Emotional intelligence in organizations: bridging research and practice. Emotion Review, 8(4), pp.316-321.