International Journal of Workplace Health Management: Volume 5 Issue 3

Workplace health resources based on sense of coherence theory

Petra Nilsson, Ingemar H. Andersson, Göran Ejlertsson, Margareta Troein

In workplace health promotion, enhancing resources are less explored than risk factors. The aim of this paper is to explore the usability of the sense of coherence (SOC) theory to…

Sociodemographic and work‐related variation in employees’ lunch eating patterns

Susanna Raulio, Eva Roos, Ritva Prättälä

This study aims to examine the availability of worksite canteens to Finnish employees, and the associations between canteen availability and the employee's sociodemographic…

Collaboration in workplace health promotion – a case study

Andrea Eriksson, Susanna Bihari Axelsson, Runo Axelsson

The aim of this article is to describe and analyze a case of interorganizational and intersectoral collaboration on workplace health promotion involving nine municipalities in a…

The Healthy Lifeworks Project: the role of organisational health in the personal health of employees

Steven Smith, Lydia Makrides, Francis Schryer Lebel, Jane Allt, Duff Montgomerie, Jane Farquharson, M.J. MacDonald, Claudine Szpilfogel

This paper aims to present the results of a three‐year comprehensive workplace initiative which provided an unprecedented opportunity to explore the potential relationship between…

A pre‐intervention benefit‐cost methodology to justify investments in workplace health

Jeremy Rickards, Carol Putnam

While the rationale for interventions in a workplace to enhance employee health are well documented, practitioners have difficulty making an economic case to justify the…

Individual and organizational health‐oriented readiness for change : Conceptualization and validation of a measure within a large‐scale comprehensive stress management intervention

Frithjof Mueller, Gregor J. Jenny, Georg F. Bauer

A key prerequisite for successful change in organizations is to understand and develop the readiness for change of employees and of their organization. In order to appropriately…