Health and Fitness standards at workplace to increase

Health and Fitness standards at workplace to increase productivity
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Abstract
As more workers find themselves stuck between work related illness, mental stress and
anxiety due to rising work pressure, long working hours so these have shown considerable
affect on their health, dedication and decisions which may influence organizational
performance as well as workers productivity. As such to deal with health and illness and
rising cost of employer medical costs, several firms have chosen to integrate wellness
program and standards to encourage healthy and satisfied workers. This paper is aimed to
study the influence of health and wellness standards on organizational performance and it has
presented discussion to identify the elements that leads to health issues, loss of performance
at work as well as has elaborated the ways through which health and wellness programs can
be integrated at work. Also some practical strategies and suggestions are given to promote
healthy workplace by including preventive illness programs, by training and awareness and
through support of managers to encourage well-being of workers at workplaces.

Contents
Abstract......................................................................................................................................1
Introduction and background.....................................................................................................3
Problem statement/question.......................................................................................................4
Research questions.....................................................................................................................4
Discussion..................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion and Recommendations............................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................9

Introduction and background
Human resource or human capital are core assets for any successful firm particularly during
challenging period as the workforce capital offers not only efforts but also creative and
innovation elements, but these intangible elements are hardly represented in financial
documentation. Further, unlike structural capital, human capital does not truly is a possession
of enterprise and workforce can quit at any time unless firms look for approaches to retain
human assets. Workforce directs all dimensions of a firm’s operations, ranging from
technology to product development to distribution and service. Additionally, by observing the
significant role of human asset contributions in an enterprise’s capability to compete in
market, always HR personnel’s have opted for methods to exploit their potential and one such
approach to develop firm’s competitive edge is to improvise the health and fitness standards
of their workforces as health, work attitude and value of human capital are corelated
(MacIntosh & Walker, 2012). In other words, staff’s health status directly impacts their work
behavior, attendance and performance, so building healthier workforce leads to more
productivity. Moreover numerous researches have presented that in long term, firms that
encourage and secure their employees’ health and fitness are amongst the most successful
and competitive and even retain best talent. Some elements that firms need to consider to
offer health and fitness standards at work includes cost of prevention vs cost of injuries or
accidents, financial outcome of violation of health and safety regulations and employees
health as significant business asset. Compliance to these dimensions prevents unwanted sick
leave, disability, reduces medical cost and cost linked to high turnover and even enhances
long term productivity, quality of product/service (Malik, Blake & Suggs, 2014). As such,
enhancing staff’s fitness will lead to more engaging workforce and almost 75% of high
performing firm’s now assess their employee’s health standards as vital part of overall risk
management approach and several pursue active wellness programs. Nonetheless, for
wellness programs to succeed, standards should be integral to a firm’s culture and this needs
continued and involved leadership at all levels (Chen, et al. 2015). In this report, influence of
wellness program on firm’s performance is the problem that is discussed and action plan and