Employee Wellness
The relationship between sick absence management and wellness strategies
- Published on 9 Oct 2012
- Shelley Hannisse
Health care intervention is only a limited element of productivity management. Sick absence management addresses a much bigger picture while making health-care services work for employers.
During sick absence reporting and management, we have found that:
Holistic integrated approach for wellness programs
- Published on 27 Sep 2012
- Frew Murdoch
The Issue
In the article, ‘ Worksite Wellness programmemes in South Africa’, Dr Japie Lubbe of Wellness Africa (Pty) Ltd, describes how organisations in South Africa are gradually moving from the traditional biomedical view of health and are moving towards a more holistic-wellness approach. Some employers are sceptical regarding the economic advantage of worksite wellness programmes using the holistic wellness approach, because of their range of content.
Wellness in the workplace: Unleashing your workforce
- Published on 14 Sep 2012
- Jurgen Becker
Most people’s dreams and aspirations are closely linked to the work activities they engage in on a daily basis. The habit of work has proved to be instrumental for survival and is directly linked to humans’ abilities to locate food, find shelter, and develop a community characterised by mutual support and nurturing. However, the world of work has undergone dramatic changes in recent decades. Just for a moment consider the influence of technology on the daily work activities of a typical mid-level manager in an organisation.
Migrating from non-core to core
- Published on 24 Aug 2012
- Khusela Sangoni
Is wellness a core or non-core business issue? Does wellness have an impact on business objectives, or is it simply a “nice-to-have” intervention? Is there a business case for wellness?
Things fall apart - stress
- Published on 20 Jun 2012
- Chantell Holland
Nosisipho Samuels’ baby was four months old when she returned to her work as a designer at a publishing company. She had been coping well enough with the changes to her family life: the disrupted sleep, the added financial pressures, and the lack of time for herself and for spending with her partner.
