Likeliness to participate in workplace health promotion activities
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2021-07-08
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Increasingly organizations have started to offer workplace health promotion (WHP) activities, however, participation in these activities has often been found low which reduces the effectiveness. Participation in WHP is necessary as this can lead to the enhancement of personal health and resources contributing to a good work ability. It is often found that employees who do participate in WHP already have a good work ability while the people with a low work ability perceive more barrier to participate which leads to nonparticipation. It is however important for employees with a low work ability to participate to improve their health and ability to cope with work demands. From a Conversation of Resources theory perspective, participation in WHP activities can protect and enhance personal resources which can result in a gain spiral of personal resources.
With the use of a policy capturing vignette study, this studies’ aim was to find out what type of health promotion activities trigger participation. Taking into consideration the perceived work ability of individuals. In total N=173 respondents indicated how likely they were to participate in nine vignettes representing different workplace health promotion activities, clustered in three overarching categories, nutrition, physical fitness and stress prevention, manipulating three known influencers of participation namely, costs, time of the activity and frequency being a personal choice.
Multi-level analysis has been performed on the variable likeliness to participate to measure the within person variance. Multi-level analysis showed that nutrition, physical fitness and stress prevention all had a significant effect on likeliness to participate. The most important finding of this study however, is that compared to people with a high perceived work ability, people with a low perceived work ability are more likely to participate in WHP activities aimed at the prevention of stress. This would implicate that this type of activity has the lowest perceived barriers and can play an important role in the engagement of people with a low work ability in WHP.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen