Organizational Health Promotion: Broadening the Horizon of Workplace Health Promotion

DeJoy, David M.; Wilson, Mark G.

doi:10.4278/0890-1171-17.5.337

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“…The concept differs from existing conceptualizations of health climate (e.g., DeJoy & Wilson, 2003) or safety climate (e.g., Zohar, 2000). Organizational climate is the product of perceptions shared by members of an organization regarding aspects of its environment that inform role behavior, in this case health or safety behaviors; that is, the extent to which health or safety behaviors are rewarded and supported in any organization (Smith-Crowe, Burke, & Landis, 2003).…”

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Workplace health friendliness: A cross level model for predicting workers' health.

Drach‐Zahavy

2008

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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Two separate studies conceptualized the health friendliness of a workplace, the first qualitatively through content analysis of interviews with 69 nursing superiors about the means employed by their workplace to promote staff health. Findings supported the conceptualization of workplace health friendliness, which was further validated against the staff's health indicators. The second study tested a model explaining the cross-level effects of workplace health-friendliness initiatives on workers' health. The model depicted workers as rational human beings calculating costs/ benefits in deciding whether to commit to those initiatives. Benefits represent workers' potential gains through compliance; costs represent their potential losses. Perceived social costs were noted as a possible cost; a worker's perceived stress signaled that he or she might benefit from joining health-friendly initiatives. Analysis of data from 45 nursing units supported the cross-level model: workplace health friendliness was positively associated with workers' health and perceived social costs and stress moderated that link. Accordingly, workplace health friendliness should be regarded as the joint responsibility of the workers and the organization, and attention should be paid to the processes whereby these initiatives become enhancers or inhibitors of workers' health.

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Workplace health friendliness: A cross level model for predicting workers' health.

Drach‐Zahavy

2008

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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“…This is particularly true of the informal sector (cottage industry) and agricultural work, where it is not unusual for the working and living environment to be the same. (Goelzer, 1996, p. 991) To emphasize the point again, expanding an employer's responsibilities can take place in two ways: (a) expanding the responsibility of an employer to provide OSH guarantees to the contingent workforce, and employed or non-employed workers or third persons (individuals), whose health may be impaired by activities within the employer's occupational territory, including employment service (Dau-Schmidt, 1995;DeJoy & Wilson, 2003). In that light, expanding the employer's OSH responsibilities is accordingly an introspective perspective of OSH; and depending on how the regulatory systems are implemented, such expanded responsibility will be an introspective-preventive or an introspective-responsive approach to regulating OSH behaviors; (b) expanding the responsibility of an employer to provide OSH guarantees to workers in occupational territories contiguous to the employer's occupational territory, whose health may be impaired by activities, although originating from a different occupational territory, affect the health of (those) workers outside the employer's occupational territory.…”

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“…. (Suk, 2011(Suk, , p. 1123 In essence, many U.S. firms adopt OSH practices for optimal use of people resources, ergonomic reasons, or to save costs for private health care insurance (DeJoy & Wilson, 2003;Watson Wyatt, 2008). As noted by Suk (2011), "American employers are instituting company clinics to cut their own healthcare costs, not to promote the public health goal of reducing societal healthcare costs" (p. 1134).…”

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Making Them Pay

Orazulike

2015

Sage Open

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This article looks at occupational safety and health (OSH) regulatory models by deconstructing the two prevailing business practices that shape the OSH right of workers. The two practices are: the introspective, and the extrospective OSH. The article further presents the legal, social, and economic factors driving the OSH standards adopted by enterprises, thereby exposing an increasingly challenging problem facing the two models. This challenge is the trans-territorial OSH problem -a scenario where occupational dangers caused by a given employer are transported to workers in other occupational environments-outside the employer's scope of legal liability. Three key methods are used for analyses: doctrinal approach, interdisciplinary approach, and comparative approach. The doctrinal analysis includes a descriptive overview of OSH so as to show how the right to OSH eludes some workers due to the trans-territorial OSH problem. It covers the overall approaches used, to deconstruct legal, institutional, and economic factors that shape OSH regulation. The interdisciplinary elements of the analysis concern: an analysis of OSH law; an analysis of the economic and social factors that drive corporate behaviors, including corporate views of OSH regulation; and the use of environmental factors to demonstrate the trans-territorial challenge. Drawing insights from the literature, the comparative method used concerns: an analysis of the OSH pratices of some large enterprises in the United States, and the EU OSH perspective-particularly the OSH model practiced by enterprises in France. It is shown that while the American OSH model is introspective in character, the EU model is extrospective.

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“…Conforme Dejoy (2003), um ambiente de trabalho seguro e saudável protege os trabalhadores de ameaças à sua saúde e, ao mesmo tempo, amplia a sua capacidade para o trabalho e a produtividade.…”

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Análise de riscos ocupacionais para implantação de melhorias em uma clínica renal

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RESUMoEsta pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar os riscos ocupacionais em uma clínica renal situada na região central do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. A partir da análise observacional dos mapas de riscos e do instrumento de coleta de dados foram implementadas algumas melhorias no local. A partir dos resultados, observou-se que as implementações foram significativas e que mudanças são necessárias para a redução dos distúrbios ocupacionais, promovendo melhor qualidade de vida aos profissionais da clínica.Palavras-chave: Saúde do trabalhador; qualidade de vida; exposição ocupacional.

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Organizational Health Promotion: Broadening the Horizon of Workplace Health Promotion

Cited by 115 publications

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Workplace health friendliness: A cross level model for predicting workers' health.

Workplace health friendliness: A cross level model for predicting workers' health.

Making Them Pay

Análise de riscos ocupacionais para implantação de melhorias em uma clínica renal

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