Investment in work health promotion in small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany

• Authors: Tamara Waldmann , Christoph Sowada
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Economic success of companies is related to the rate of absenteeism and the rate of fluctuation, but also to the subjective experience of the employees. During economic difficult situations, enterprises wanted and had to motivate their employees to maintain their productivity and motivation to work. Investments in work health promotion-measures resulted to be a good way to do this. Workplace health promotion turned out to be a suitable way to boost and/or maintain the motivation of employees. Authors of the article give an overview of work health promotion (WHP) in Germany (especially in small and medium enterprises) and analyze implementation strategies, costs, key-success-factors and obstacles before or during the implementation of WHP-measures.

Keywords

EN

investment in Work Health Promotion; work health management; workplace health promotion

PL

inwestowanie w ochronę zdrowia w miejscu pracy; ochrona zdrowia w miejscu pracy; zarządzenie zdrowiem w miejscu pracy

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Zdrowie Publiczne i Zarządzanie
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 95–105

Dates

online

2012-12-20

Contributors

author

Tamara Waldmann

• University of Applied Science Neu-Ulm, Faculty of Health Management, Germany

author

Christoph Sowada

• Zakład Ekonomiki Zdrowia i Zabezpieczenia Społecznego, Instytut Zdrowia Publicznego, Wydział Nauk o Zdrowiu, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Collegium Medicum, Kraków

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/20842627OZ.12.012.0899