Employers' Role in Employee Health: Why They Do What They Do.
Journal
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
ISSN: 1536-5948
Titre abrégé: J Occup Environ Med
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9504688
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 2020
11 2020
Historique:
pubmed:
10
8
2020
medline:
10
8
2021
entrez:
10
8
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Employers affect the health of employees and their families through work environments and employee benefits. We sought to understand employer decisions around those topics. Interviews with 21 executives from diverse, purposely-sampled, progressive companies with transcripts analyzed using inductive and deductive methods. Companies often viewed keeping employees healthy primarily as a means to profitability rather than an end in itself and rationalized stressful workplaces as necessary and non-changeable. Many possible actions including job redesign and changing benefits administrators were seen as infeasible. Even large, resource-rich organizations were strikingly non-agentic. Companies seem less committed to the goal of increasing employee health than they claim or than they should be, given the significant relationship between employee health and economic performance, and see external and internal barriers to improving health that are often self-created.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32769791
doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001967
pii: 00043764-202011000-00014
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
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