Wellbeing in the Workplace
Absenteeism, staff turnover, productivity and staff satisfaction are wellbeing-related concerns that many businesses struggle to overcome. This Laboratory aims to identify the key areas related to wellbeing issues in the workplace as well as mainstream and coordinate policy initiatives through discussions of best practices and development of associated tools.
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Project Description
Businesses are increasingly concerned about both direct and indirect costs associated with wellbeing issues such as absenteeism, staff turnover, productivity, and staff satisfaction. Based on an overall recognition of the importance of human capital, HR, H&S and CSR managers have started to consider wellbeing of employees as a top management priority and have begun to explore strategic responses to promoting wellbeing.
In doing so however, companies are facing certain challenges, which it is the aim of this working group to address. Examples of Key content questions for discussion include:
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How to mainstream and coordinate a wellbeing management policy across the company?
- What are the essential aspects of a wellbeing promotion strategy (e.g. prevention, identification and support, reintegration)?
- How to establish a business case for improving wellbeing in the workplace?
- What are the most effective tools to implement and monitor a wellbeing strategy?
Main Project Objectives and Targets
Objectives:
- Share best practices in the area of wellbeing in the workplace
- Learn from those successfully addressing the issue
- Develop practical tools to improve wellbeing in the workplace
- Test the effectiveness of tools developed
- Engage with relevant stakeholders in this field
Deliverables:
- Explore existing models of wellbeing promotion and training and possibly test the models in the framework of the lab
- A "Do's and Don'ts" toolkit based upon the pilot testing and including best practices collected from various companies.
Laboratory Leader
Facilitator
Company Participants
Janssen Pharmaceutica, Unilever, Epson, BT, Vattenfall, EDF - Gas de France, IBM, Bouygues, Solvay, Accor, Suez, BASF
Contact Information
Beatriz Berruga, CSR Europe
+32 2 541 16 27
bb@csreurope.org
Ann Vandenhende, CSR Europe
+32 2 541 1614
avdh@csreurope.org
Milestones
- 13 June 2007 - Laboratory Meeting on Prevention
- 12 September 2007 - Laboratory meeting on Identifiation and Support
- 16 January 2008 - Laboratory meeting on Re-insertion in the Workplace
