An employee-centered framework for healthy workplaces: implementing a critically holistic, participative, and structural model through the Equitable Food Initiative

Zoller, Heather M.; Strochlic, Ron; Getz, Christy

doi:10.1080/00909882.2022.2106579

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“…Workplace wellness offers opportunities for experimentation. In NGO and non-profit contexts, holistic models emphasising structural change via employee leadership in workplace health promotion has increased wellness participation, avoided surveillance and elitist/managerialist ideals from promulgating (Zoller et al, 2022). And so there is scope to move beyond consumerist demands to be individually ‘exceptional’, to discover new more emancipatory forms of personal and organisational wellness.…”

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Extreme wellness at work: Whose body counts in the rise of exceptionalist organisational fitness cultures

2023

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Management has long concerned itself with controlling workers’ bodies, with organisational wellness discourses being its latest fixation. This article’s purpose is to introduce and understand ‘whose body counts’ – a discourse of bodily exceptionalism in performative organisational cultures. Using ethnographic methods, this article presents an analysis of a CrossFit workplace health promotion at an underperforming US corporation, to identify a complex process of empowerment, self-exploitation and disciplinary regulation to produce performative outcomes. This research illustrates how the workplace health promotion generates a pervasive discourse of exceptionalism underpinned by workers’ reflexive exploitation, overarched by peer-surveillance and reflexively embraced through extreme individualised performativities. Critically, it is revealed how individuals competitively engage in communicative labour to demonstrate devotion to self-care that is translated into organisational commitment. Specifically, unquestioned discursive ambiguities are shown to cunningly empower limitlessness meritocratic striving that pits workers against each other, creating constant negotiation of ‘whose body counts’ by subjugating others.

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Extreme wellness at work: Whose body counts in the rise of exceptionalist organisational fitness cultures

2023

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“…4,56 There are documented inequities in existing safety trainings, and this literature calls for improved participation and elevating worker voices in these processes through labor committees and third-party certification. [57][58][59][60] Trainings for managers should draw on the NIOSH hierarchy of controls 61…”

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“…Trainings on safety and equity for workers and managers can help mitigate health disparities related to workforce segregation 4,56 . There are documented inequities in existing safety trainings, and this literature calls for improved participation and elevating worker voices in these processes through labor committees and third‐party certification 57–60 . Trainings for managers should draw on the NIOSH hierarchy of controls 61 and encourage addressing occupational risks at the top of the hierarchy of controls, rather than placing the responsibility on individual workers to mitigate their own risk.…”

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Forty years of struggle in North Carolina: Workplace segregation and fatal occupational injury rates

McClure,

Martin,

Ranapurwala

et al. 2024

American J Industrial Med

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ObjectiveTo assess workplace segregation in fatal occupational injury from 1992 to 2017 in North Carolina.MethodsWe calculated occupational fatal injury rates within categories of occupation, industry, race, age, and sex; and estimated expected numbers of fatalities among Black and Hispanic male workers had they experienced the rates of White male workers. We also estimated the contribution of workforce segregation to disparities by estimating the expected number of fatalities among Black and Hispanic male workers had they experienced the industry and occupation patterns of White male workers. We assessed person‐years of life‐lost, using North Carolina life expectancy estimates.ResultsHispanic workers contributed 32% of their worker‐years and experienced 58% of their fatalities in construction. Black workers were most overrepresented in the food manufacturing industry. Hispanic males experienced 2.11 (95% CI: 1.86–2.40) times the mortality rate of White males. The Black‐White and Hispanic‐White disparities were widest among workers aged 45 and older, and segregation into more dangerous industries and occupations played a substantial role in driving disparities. Hispanic workers who suffered occupational fatalities lost a median 47 life‐years, compared to 37 among Black workers and 36 among White workers.ConclusionsIf Hispanic and Black workers experienced the workplace safety of their White counterparts, fatal injury rates would be substantially reduced. Workforce segregation reflects structural racism, which also contributes to mortality disparities. Root causes must be addressed to eliminate disparities.

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Straight from the horse’s mouth: communicating the gist of mRNA vaccines

Brace,

Wolfe

2024

Journal of Applied Communication Research

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An employee-centered framework for healthy workplaces: implementing a critically holistic, participative, and structural model through the Equitable Food Initiative

Cited by 4 publications

References 73 publications

Extreme wellness at work: Whose body counts in the rise of exceptionalist organisational fitness cultures

Extreme wellness at work: Whose body counts in the rise of exceptionalist organisational fitness cultures

Forty years of struggle in North Carolina: Workplace segregation and fatal occupational injury rates

Straight from the horse’s mouth: communicating the gist of mRNA vaccines

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