Healthy Organizations: A Competitiveness Strategy

Abstract

This article is about the concept of Healthy Organizations-understanding it as the one which offers a high level of wellbeing to their employees, which positively impacts their productivity-as a strategy to increase organizational productiveness. In order to achieve this, an interdisciplinary research was proposed, involving concepts of engineering, management, psychology, work medicine and industrial security. In this research, 873 employees were surveyed in 11 manufacturing enterprises in Bogotá city, a statistical analysis was made, and the financial condition model was adapted and applied-including analytical hierarchization and the opinion of experts-to assign weights to the variables. It was found that in a 1 to 10 scale the Health level in such companies is 6.25 and it was not found any significant difference among office and production jobs.