Este hecho ha provocado que cada vez sean más los empresarios y emprendedores que hacen todo lo posible por lograr la felicidad de los empleados, la cual influye de una manera muy positiva en el rendimiento laboral y en la productividad de los trabajadores.
La prensa habla de ello…
¿Es posible alcanzar la felicidad en el trabajo?. El Mundo, 18.03.2015.
¿Cómo ser feliz en el trabajo?. The Huffington Post, 01.06.2016.
¿Es usted feliz en su trabajo?. El País Semanal, 01.11.2016.
En auge las empresas que miden la felicidad de sus empleados. La Vanguardia, 10.02.2016.
La felicidad en el Trabajo: una realidad
Pymes o grandes grupos, sector público o privado, en España o en el extranjero, diversas organizaciones han hecho de la felicidad de sus trabajadores una elección estratégica para impulsar el cambio y el rendimiento.
Primer gran programa empresarial de promoción de la salud
- Vision/mission: LifeSteps is a wellness program designed to improve the health and well-being of all persons over age of 18 for whom GM provides health benefits (it covers 1.1. million people), including active employees, retirees, and dependents of active or retired employees.
- Incentive: Each individual receives an annual health risk appraisal, telephone access to a registered nurse 24 hours a day. LifeSteps website, a quarterly health information newsletter and a health care book are sent to each of the households along with access to a telephonic audiotape library.
- Program Goals: LifeSteps is designed to help individuals to:
- Identify controllable health risks.
- Develop plans to reduce those risks.
- Modify lifestyles
- Program Components:
- Health fairs and screenings.
- Quarterly publications.
- A website (www.lifesteps.com).
- Wellness support classes.
- Key findings:
- To date, more than 1 million health risk appraisals have been processed, 370 000 people have participated, and 185 000 health risks have been reduced.
- In the intensive onsite UAW-GM LifeSteps program, the low-risk population (0-2 risks) has grown by 8.1 percent since the program’s inception in 1996 and more than 75 percent of active employees have participated.
- The UAW-GM LifeSteps program has published more articles than any other employer-sponsored wellness program in America. There have been 18 peer-reviewed journal articles published that highlight the link between health care costs and modifiable health risks.
- Strategies/advantages: Lifesteps has a two-pronged approach. It not only focuses on reducing health risks, but also encourages those within the low-risk group to continue their healthy behaviors”
