Research on Health & Social Issues Affecting Workplace Performance

This research proposal investigates the impact of health and social issues on workplace wellbeing and employee performance, focusing on the Royal Adelaide Hospital. It outlines the background, objectives, significance, and innovation of the study, emphasizing the importance of addressing these issues for business success. The literature review examines various social issues like violence, obesity, and drug addiction, and health issues impacting community nurses. The research plan details the exploratory research design, quantitative research method, and data collection through questionnaires using a simple random sampling technique. Ethical considerations and study limitations are addressed, with expected outcomes focusing on data analysis for improved workplace wellbeing programs. This research aims to provide insights and recommendations for policy-makers and practitioners to enhance the health and social environment within the workplace.

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Running Head: Health & Social Issues
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Title:...........................................................................................................................................4
Background................................................................................................................................4
The aim of the Study..................................................................................................................4
Research objectives....................................................................................................................4
Significance and innovation of the proposed study...................................................................5
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................5
Expected outcomes.....................................................................................................................7
Research Plan.............................................................................................................................7
Data Analysis.......................................................................................................................10
Ethical considerations..............................................................................................................16
Study Limitations.....................................................................................................................16
Research timescale...................................................................................................................17
Conclusion................................................................................................................................18
References................................................................................................................................19

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Introduction
The current research proposal would be based on the study of ‘’Health and social issues
which may affect the workplace as well as employee’s performance’’. For conducting this
research proposal Royal Adelaide Hospital has been chosen as it wants to identify the
impact on health and social issues on workplace wellbeing. The research proposal includes
complete background and significance of the research process which will be helpful in
conducting the further research study. Also, it will include the study of different research
methods, data collection techniques, sampling methods and data analysis method which will
provide deep information about the impact of health and social issues on the workplace.
Apart from this, the research proposal would also involve the ethical consideration and study
limitations which should be addressed by the researcher successfully. The use of effective
sampling techniques and research methods will make this research more successful.

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Title:
The tile of this research is ‘’Health and social issues which may affect the workplace as well
as employee’s performance’’
Background
For having great success in business, it is highly essential for a business entity to identify the
issues regarding health and society which might influence the workplace as well as future
business growth. The current research proposal is designed to research the impact on health
and social issues on the workplace of Royal Adelaide Hospital which is one of the most
popular hospitals of Australia. This organisation always tries to find those health and social
issues which can affect the employee’s working efficiency and satisfaction level of
customers. By having great knowledge about the health and social issues, Royal Adelaide
Hospital can make necessary changes for their customers who will lead their business to the
high level of success and growth. Apart from this, research of health and social issues can
provide meaningful recommendations to policy-makers, community, and practitioners. This
research proposal would include different research methods, sampling techniques and data
analysis pattern which will help in researching the in-depth information about health and
social issues.
The aim of the Study
The major aim of this study is to analyse the impact of health and social issues on the
wellbeing of employees as well as the workplace.
Research objectives
There are three major objectives which would be achieved by conducting this research
proposal and these are followed as under:
 To analyse the impact of health and social issues on workplace

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 To determine the significance of researching health and social issues in the workplace
 To evaluate the role of workplace well-being programs in addressing the health and
social issues
Significance and innovation of the proposed study
In the present time, most of the business entities are facing problems because of continuously
increasing health and social issues in their employee’s life. Research of health and social
issues has become the most significant task of Royal Adelaide Hospital as they influence
huge negative impact on its employees as well as its whole workplace (Allwood, 2013). By
collecting enough information about health and social issues, an organisation can bring new
changes within its workplace which will definitely help the clients and employees in
managing their personal as well as professional life. For dealing with health issues policy
maker of Royal Adelaide hospital can build effective health care policies. On the other side,
successful research of social issues can help the organisation in implementing new changes
for the better welfare of customers and employees (Bharadwaj, et. al., 2013). Hence, it can be
said that the topic of the current research proposal is highly significant as it can solve the
various problems of the Royal Adelaide hospital which mainly occurs because of health and
social issues.
Literature Review
As per the point of view of Messer(2014), there are different social issues like violence,
obesity, family responsibilities, drug addiction and so on which influence huge impact on the
workplace and future growth of business entity. For managing the prosperity and wellbeing
of the workplace, it is highly important for business managers as well as owners to get the
most out of their people from social problems by organising different social activities or
programs. There are different ways by which hospitals can manage the negative impact of
social issues. For example, by specifically mentioning different type of family responsibilities

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into legislation organisation can get rid of some social problems. Apart from this, a business
owner can also force their employees to follow the legal rules and regulations regarding
domestic violence and other family matters (Messer, 2014).
According to Spence, (2015), the business entity can manage the health as well as social
problems of employees by providing them workplace well-being programs. The workplace
health promotions, as well as wellbeing programs, help people in solving their personal
problems which are affecting their performance within the business enterprise. The
practitioners of healthcare organisation have to solve the problems of their customer but
firstly it is important for them to address their own health and social issues. The participation
in a health promotion program allows employees to deal with their finance as well as
productivity-related problems. The healthy employees will ignore the absenteeism factor
which mainly affects their performance within the workplace. Hence, it can be said that the
organisation should focus more on the human relation issues instead of an investment
structure for having huge business growth (Spence,2015).
As per the observation of Terry, et. al. (2015), there are different health and safety issues
which are faced by community nurses while providing health care services in rural areas. It is
the huge responsibility of community nurses to fulfil all individual needs and identify all
health as well as safety challenges which exists in a physical, geographical and organisational
environment of an organisation where community nurses work. Some most important social
issues are the poor behaviour of clients, poor conditions of patient's home and horizontal
violence which can affect the performance of nurses as well as the growth of the business
entity. By focusing on health and safety challenges, healthcare practitioners can accomplish
good outcomes which will meet the needs of rural people (Terry, et. al., 2015).
As per the point of views of Fenton, et. al. (2014), the workplace wellbeing plans which are
operated in healthcare organisation influences huge impact on the performance of employees

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and organisation as a whole. The implication of different workplace health and wellbeing
schemes helps in promoting in the wellbeing and health of employees within the workplace.
For improving the business performance, it is very much essential for an organisation to
create such an environment which allows employees to accomplish the benefits of their own
and their organisation in an appropriate manner (Fenton, et. al., 2014).
Expected outcomes
This research proposal would be conducted for the accomplishment of research objectives.
The major focus of research would be on data or information which helps in analysing the
impact of health and social issues on the wellbeing of the organisation as well as its
workforce. Also, it is expected that the research proposal will help in determining the role of
well-being programs in the future growth of the organisation (Brannen, 2017).
Research Plan
For accomplishing research objectives in an appropriate manner, it is important for the
researcher to take help of effective project management plan, methods, and tools. With the
help of the project management process, the researcher can determine which data collection
method he should opt, which sampling technique he should use and which analytical pattern
he should use for analysing the collected data (Kerzner, 2013).
Research design
The research design is considered as that scientific approach which helps in conducting
research proposal in most effective as well as in a systematic manner. There are different
types of research design but out of the two are most important which follows as are under:
Descriptive research:
This research design is totally different from the exploratory research because it requires
more in-depth information about a specific topic. Sometimes it becomes difficult for a

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researcher to collect extra or additional information about some topic that is why they attract
towards exploratory research.
Exploratory research:
It is that kind of research design in which the researcher takes help of hypothetical idea so
that he can create his own understanding about the research topic. In this research design, a
new topic of the researcher is analysed on the basis of previous research results (Zikmund, et.
al., 2013). For current research proposal, exploratory research design has been chosen.
Research methods
For accomplishing research objectives in an appropriate manner, it is important for the
researcher to take help of effective research methods which are discussed below:
Quantitative research method:
It is that kind of research method in which collected information or data is presented into
statistical data. On the basis of statistical data, researcher can draw meaningful
recommendations as well as a conclusion. There are different methods through which
quantitative data can be collected such as interviews, questionnaires, observations and so on.
Mainly, researcher uses this data collection method as it provides the most reliable
information sources which can prove beneficial for the proposed study or research proposal
(Denscombe, 2013). The current research proposal would be based on this research method.
Qualitative research method:
This type of research method is helpful in determining the nature, attitude, and behaviour of
people. This research method is used by the organisation when it wants to collect information
about its customer’s behaviour.
Data Collection

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The information can be of two types which are primary and secondary. For conducting
business research proposal researchers takes helps help of primary data whereas for gathering
information about the normal topic, the researcher takes help of secondary data.
Primary data:
It is also known as first-hand information which is mainly used in business research so that
meaningful conclusion can be drawn. In a current research proposal, primary data will be
used as it helps the most in achieving desired research objectives. The primary data would be
collected through a questionnaire (Bromham, et. al., 2016).
Secondary data:
This is also referred to as second-hand information which can be gathered from secondary
information sources such as books, journals, and internet and so on.
Research sampling
For collecting firsthand information, the researcher has to take help of different respondents
which are selected by taking help of the sampling technique. The methods of sampling play a
most significant role in business research because it provides, a right sample of people for
data collection. Mainly, there are three types of sampling methods like stratified, systematic
and simple random. In this research proposal, simple random technique will be used because
in this all members of the population get equal chances to get selected for sampling. This
method will be used in the current research proposal.
In this research, 30 respondents have been chosen by taking help of a random sampling
method. All the respondents would be encouraged to fill the below-mentioned questionnaire
and on the basis of that data will be analysed in an appropriate manner.
Questionnaire
Q1. Do health and social issues affect the performance of the workplace?
Yes

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No
Q2. What is the major negative impact of health and social issues on employees of Royal
Adelaide Hospital?
Absenteeism
Overtime work
Poor relations among employees
Q3. Should hospital take initiative to remove health social issues?
Yes
No
Q4. Do wellbeing programs contribute to solving health and social problems of employees?
Yes
No
Q5. Should the organisation make an investment for the research on health and social issues?
Yes
No
Q6. Any Suggestions
Answer………………….
Data Analysis
The data will be analysed with the help of statistical presentation so that meaningful
conclusion can be drawn. In this research, MS Excel technique will be used to accomplish the
given research.
Q1. Do health and social issues affect the performance of the workplace?
Options Responses
Yes 18

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No 12
Interpretation: This graphical representation shows that 18 respondents out of 30 think that
real health and social issues affect the performance of the organisation but remaining 12
people do not give importance to health and social issues.

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Q2. What is the major negative impact of health and social issues on employees of Royal
Adelaide Hospital?
Options Responses
Absenteeism 22
Overtime work 5
Poor relations
among
employees
3
Interpretation:This graph shows that 22 people out of 30 consider absenteeism as a biggest
negativeresult of health and social issues but remaining 8 people have a different point of
views.