Health And Wellness In The WorkplaceHealth And Wellness In The Workplace

What Do You Wish to Achieve?

Ponder why you’re evaluating and what your assessment is going to measure.

If you’re trying to learn whether plan has been thriving, see if you followed your mission statement and met your goals/objectives.

If you do not have a mission statement or objectives and goals, decide with senior staff and your employee Employee Health Promotion Program Committee how your organization will measure success.

By way of example, you can measure success by changes in:

• Physical measures (e.g., strength, flexibility, waist circumference of staff members).
• Psychological measures (e.g., employee morale, satisfaction levels, stress levels).
• Productivity measures (e.g., decrease in absenteeism rates, increased employee productivity).

Thinking About workers

If you’re considering making improvements to the program, consider whether the program is still relevant and appropriate for staff members. Find out if there are any barriers to participation in the program or to participation in physical activity during work.

As employees are the ones participating in the program, it’s valuable to give them a chance to offer feedback on the physical exercise plan.

Choosing an Evaluation Method

Decide on your evaluation method. Both measurable results (e.g., absenteeism rates or questionnaire responses) and descriptive results (e.g., one-on-one interviews or focus groups) can be used to evaluate. The method you choose will hinge upon the time and funding available and what you want to measure.

Deciding How to Do the Assessment

Decide when and where you will do your evaluation (and who will be evaluated). For more information, read the “Types of Evaluations” section on this website.
You may want to pilot test your assessment (e.g., with members of the Workplace Health Promotion Program Committee) before sending it out to employees. The employee Workplace Health Promotion Program Committee may also want to evaluate the initiative’s planning process.

Doing the Assessment

• Compare your results to baseline information (i.e., assessment results from before the launch of your program). If you don’t have this information, save your assessment results to compare with later results. You can also look at other information you may have, such as employee satisfaction survey results.
• Analyze and disseminate meaningful and simple-to-understand results with upper management and employees.
• Assessment results can be used to better the current physical activity program and/or to cultivate new pushes in future.