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Wellness Program

Dennis Byrd

ITT-Tech

Fundamentals of Management

PART ONE

The company workers are currently affected by the abuse of drugs which mainly include smoking and the consumption of alcohol. This affects how operations are done in the organization. Workers show up late from drinking sprees, some cause fights in the workplace and other even come to the work place under the influence of the drugs. There is no plan that is in place to help such employees (Bray, 2012).

The wellness plan will be to rehabilitate the employees who are addicted. There the wellness program will target to rehabilitate the people that are involved in taking the drugs. This will be to increase their productivity in the office. There will be a certain amount of money that the organization will have to invest towards the program.

Standard Triangle

Feasibility study

The company will need around $20, 000 for the initial stages of the program. The people who smoke and drink in organization are of large in number. After the rehabilitation there will be an expected change that will see people work better and there being reduced number of chaos in the work place.

There are many internal/external factors that will make it difficult to run the wellness program. The biggest challenge is the resistance that may be seen from the people that are involved. They cannot be forced to undertake the program and therefore if they resist it then it will be impossible to run the program effectively. The external problems are government policies that are there. They allow people to smoke and consume alcohol. Therefore if the people want to continue with the behavior then they cannot be stopped. They can only be banned as far as from taking the drugs within the organization’s property. This will not be effective in the implementation of the program.

Inverted Triangle on how the process will be undertaken

Project Plan

My proposal will be to hold talks and seminars that will help the concerned to know the effects that the drugs have on them at the workplace. They will be educated on why they should consider stop and how the help of the professionals will help them both in the inside and outside of the work place. This will help in the acceptance of the program and after some time when the results are seen then the affected will be able to appreciate and take all the rehabilitation sessions seriously which will ensure that they stop taking drugs. The wellness program will affect all the people in the organization and therefore very important to undertake. This will improve the performance that was originally there in the organization. Therefore it will be important for the company to undertake the program (Steiner-Adair & Sjostrom, 2006).

Motivation Using the X and Y theory

The X theory will state that the average person might dislike the program and try to avoid it. This is if the authoritarian management style of running the program will be used. People in this theory are forced to undertake the program or be punished. The program will hence use the participative management method where the leaders will show commitment and therefore attract the others. This will ensure that they do it willingly and that the program will have a positive effect on them so that they can be able to adapt to the wellness program. Another theory that can be used from the X and Y is the vigilant interaction theory which supports the participative method of management.

Benefits of different spans of management control

The interactive management control has a greater advantage as it helps the manager to interact with the employees and know the problems that are affecting them. The authoritarian control makes sure that they follow the orders that they are given to avoid punishment. The interactive is therefore the best as the employees will feel comfortable asking for parts that they never understood in work making the work to come out as expected.

References

Bray, I. M. (2012). Healthy employees, healthy business: Easy, affordable ways to promote workplace wellness. Berkeley, Calif: Nolo.

Steiner-Adair, C., & Sjostrom, L. (2006). Full of ourselves: A wellness program to advance girl power, health, and leadership. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.