Researching Report

Running head: RESEARCHING REPORT 1

RESEARCHING REPORT 5

Ahmed Mohammad

Idaho High Lander University

ADMG 385 Comment by Mohd Mustafa Ahmady: Mohammad: I suggest using writing center to help you with your grammar. Comments: 1. Don't put a header on the first page. 2. The first three research questions should be taken directly from the employee survey. The fourth (and fifth) are from secondary research. As you have it, #2, #3, and #4 will not give you any information to make a determination which benefit to choose.

Professor John Lydic

11/14/2017

Problem statement:

Since the Overbridge LLC is providing health benefit for its employees, the Overbridge has it is considering considerate to bringing some changes to the employees’ health program. So, which benefit program will be most appropriate for employees of Overbridge LLC? Wellness? Or FMLA? Or a combination of both? Comment by Mohd Mustafa Ahmady: Use flush left, don’t justify the body copy

Purpose statement:

The purpose of this research report is to determine which program is more acceptable -Wellness Program or Paid Family Medical Leave Benefit and why?

Research Questions:

1. Which benefit option is better according to preferences of employees?

2. Are these programs helpful for employees?

3. Which program will be chosen according to your perceptions?

4. What are the basic reasons behind choosing the specific program?

Methodology:

An employee survey was conducted for this organization to implement help determine which of the two new benefit packages is preferable for the employees. One is wellness programs and another is paid family leave benefit package. These two benefits will help employees and it will also help an organization to increase its productivity and package. A survey was made according to employee benefit. The survey process was sent to 2000 employees in the organization and about 1345 employees responded in the total process. According to the report, half of male and female were the respondents. About 8% respondents were found to be at an age of 51 to 70 years, at an age of 35 to 50 years were 36%, 41% were 25 to 34 years and rest of the respondents were 18 to 24 years. Another survey was made to see how many people reacted in which benefit packages. So from that report, it was cleared that about 538 employees accept paid family medical leave act benefit, 296 people accept wellness program, 497 employees choose both these two packages and only 14 employees did not react in any of this packages. In wellness programs, the activities were segregated to understand the better reviews from employees. According to that data, it has been found that 696 employees selected gym membership, 263 employees selected group exercise classes, nutrition was selected by 159 employees, 197 people choose stress reduction seminar or classes, and rest 30 employees selected none option. Another survey was made where they were asked to work the equivalent of one day a week during family medical leave to train and bridge essential projects where they will not lose those days and the days will be added to the end of the official leave. In this survey, 987 employees reacted in ‘yes’ option and 358 employees selected ‘no’ option. At the end of the survey, they were greeted for participating in this process. Comment by Mohd Mustafa Ahmady: None of the following is relevant. This section is to describe your methodology. Primary is the employee survey. Secondary is how you’re going to get outside information to help make a decision which package to choose. Are you going to research other companies? Read articles? What are your methods for the secondary research?

Data collected from Wellness Program

Data found from respondents

References

Beebe, J. (2017). Paid Family Leave: Balancing Acts. Issue Brief, (05.11. 17).

Milkman, R., & Appelbaum, E. (2013). Unfinished business: Paid family leave in California and the future of US work-family policy. Cornell University Press.

Putnam, L. (2015). Workplace wellness that works: 10 steps to infuse well-being and vitality into any organization. John Wiley & Sons.

Ward, G. (2017). Calculating ROI: Measuring the Benefits of Workplace Financial Wellness. Pension Section, 24.

Wellness Program

Wellness Program

Gym membership Group exercise classes Nutrition specialist Stress reduction seminars/classes None 696 263 159 197 30

Respondents

Age: 18-24 Age: 25-34 Age: 35-50 Age: 51-70 0.15 0.41 0.36 0.08