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GUIDELINES and GRADING CRITERIA

PH 402

Workplace Health Promotion Program Project

Description of Assignment:

Students will select a company and design a workplace health promotion program which will focus on needed health issues within that workplace. A workplace profile will be required as well as a detailed program including assessment, design, implementation and evaluation. Please reference all borrowed information: APA style. The final report will be a minimum of five pages. A ten minute presentation using PowerPoint is also required.

Criteria

Points awarded

Full Credit

Partial Credit

No credit

Company Profile

Company profile is complete

-name

-location

-type of industry / business (what does the company produce or services provided)

-company mission (how can it be linked to wellness?)

-CEO/management (also does management support wellness?)

-workforce demographics

number of employees gender makeup ethnic makeup average age

union or nonunion

-built environment

-work rotation

-major work activities

-profit trends (last 5-10 years)

-types of health promotion programs already available

Company profile does not clearly discusses the company’s details

Not addressed

Assessment

Assessment is complete

-identification

-identifies health-related problems (ex: obesity, tobacco use, high blood pressure, joint injury, low-back pain, etc.…)

-list the identification strategies used, and why

(ex: workforce demographic data, employee health records, health care claims and costs, workers’ compensation claims and cost data, worksite environment and health risk appraisal data)

-Assessment

-assesses employee’s interest survey

-feasibility study

5 questions for a feasibility study:

Provides minimal details of the assessment process. Does not

explain the company’s health issue and how that issue was chosen in a comprehensive manner.

Not addressed.

1) What are the organization’s motives for considering the development of a program? (Ex. absenteeism, aging workforce, image, productivity, etc.….) and what are the organization’s goals for considering the development of a program? (Ex. lower health cost, more productive employees, etc.…..)

2) Is this program cost effective for the organization? Yes or no and why.

3) What is the level of support, need, and interest among employees, middle managers and top managers?

4) Does organization have access to resources needed?

5) What are the key factors to be considered during the design of the

program?

Design/Planning

Review collected data in previous section to answer the following four questions:

1) How prevalent is the problem?

2) What are the consequences of the problem?

3) What are the causes of the problem?

4) Which workers in the company are at greatest risk?

Minimally addresses how the health issue will affect the company and the employees. Improper vision and mission. Poor development of goals, objectives not SMART and/or activities do not tie in with goals and objectives.

Budget not clearly established with justifications.

Not addressed

-Develop vision and mission statement

-Develop goals and objectives (these should be specific and measurable) and activities.

-Budget clearly established with justifications.

Implementation

-Develop a marketing strategy using

Minimal marketing strategy.

Not addressed

the 4 Ps of marketing

Newsletter poorly designed with

-Develop a promotion poster or

no information and/or poor

newsletter

visuals as well as no links for

-Describe methods to promote

additional resources and no social

program adherence and recruitment

media opportunities.

of employees that do not participate

Minimal discussion of methods to

and high risk employees:

support implementation of

-verbal support

program.

-written feedback

-discuss incentives

-discuss how to identify employee’s

values, interests and readiness to

participate (surveys, incentives,

rewards)

-Discuss how these influencing

factors might affect implementation:

-management support

-employee support

-wellness committee member’s

responsibility

-knowledge and experience of

wellness director

Evaluation

-Review your program’s goals and objectives. establish a time frame, measurement intervals design.(questionnaires, health risk appraisals, health care claims data report, absenteeism logs, productivity reports, etc.…)

-Perform measurement process evaluation:

Questionnaires designed for feedback from employees about the program to determine if changes are needed to be more effective outcome evaluation:

Data which will determine if the program actually improves the health/lifestyles/productivity of employees. This can be obtained by health risks appraisals, healthcare claims data report, absenteeism logs, productivity reports or specific results such as fitness level, weight, etc.…

-Discuss how you will provide feedback to employee and management

Evaluation strategies presented are not feasible or lack clarity

Not addressed

References

Provides reference for the materials being reviewed.

Presentation was presented with knowledge of content.

Provides link only for the materials reviewed.

Presentation was presented with

some reading and hesitation of knowledge.

No citation or link

Read most of presentation. Did not know content.

APA Format

& Presentation

Style

Possible

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