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Cmde Dilip Mohapatra, VSM Suzlon Energy Ltd. Employee Wellness makes Good Business Sense 1

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This was the keynote address delivered for an MTHR session at Pune in Jan 2011

Transcript of Employee Wellness

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1Cmde Dilip Mohapatra, VSM

Suzlon Energy Ltd.

Employee Wellnessmakes

Good Business Sense

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Health vs. WellnessHealth:

Condition of being of sound body

with emphasis on freedom from pain

and disease.

Wellness: A multi-

dimensional state of well-being, a holistic approach to life that encompasses bodily, mental, emotional, environmental, spiritual and community health.

– ACE Fitness Matters Jan/Feb 2009

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The Wellness Continuum

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7 Dimensions of Wellness1. Emotional2. Environmental3. Intellectual4. Occupational5. Physical6. Spiritual7. Social

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Emotional Wellness

◦ Having the ability to feel and express emotions, like happiness, sadness, and anger. Manage stress, possess self-esteem and

self-acceptance, and appropriately sharing your feelings with others. skills include: seeking and providing support,

learning time management skills, practicing stress management skills, and accepting and forgiving yourself.

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Environmental Wellness Includes protecting the earth and its

resources and modifying your surroundings to help you achieve a healthy lifestyle.

Ideas: ◦ conserve water and other natural resources◦ reduce, reuse, recycle ◦ minimize your exposure to chemicals ◦ renew your relationship with the earth

Modifying your environment to remove or minimize barriers. ◦ Example: rearranging your work area to allow

you to be more productive.

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Intellectual WellnessStriving to improve your intellect and your

creative spark. ◦ Examples include:

taking a course or workshop learning a foreign language reading for personal enjoyment seeking out persons who challenge you

intellectually taking up a hobby.

Making health decisions based on solid scientific evidence obtained from reliable sources.

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Occupational Wellness

Preparing and making use of your skills and talents. ◦ Finding a career that is meaningful,

enjoyable and rewarding is vital to job satisfaction. Ideas include:

exploring career options creating a vision of your future being open to learning new skills

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Physical Wellness

Encompasses a variety of healthy behaviors including: ◦ adequate exercise◦ proper nutrition◦ abstaining from harmful behaviors like

drug use and alcohol abuse

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Spiritual Wellness

Set of beliefs, principles, or values that guide your life. (Not strictly religion)

◦ Increase your spiritual well-being by: exploring your spiritual core being inquisitive and curious listen to your heart and following your

principles allow yourself and others around you the

freedom to be who they are

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Social Wellness

Receiving and giving support to family and friends, enhancing diversity and becoming active in issues that you care about.

◦ Ideas include: interacting with people of other cultures,

backgrounds & beliefs. cultivating healthy relationships sharing your talents and skills contributing to your community communicating your thoughts, ideas and

feelings.

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Crossing the Seven C’s1. Capturing Senior Level

Support

2. Creating Cohesive Teams

3. Collecting Data

4. Crafting an Operating Plan

5. Choosing Appropriate Interventions

6. Creating Supportive Environments

7. Carefully Evaluating Outcomes

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Most Frequently Addressed Programming Areas

• Smoking Cessation• Physical Activity• Nutrition/Weight

Control• Hypertension• Alcohol• Seatbelts• Mental Health

• Medical Self-care• Stress Management• Disease

Management• Personal Finance• Immunization• Ergonomics• Work/Family

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A typical Stress Management Intervention

Model

Source : Ivancevich (1990)

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Closing Thoughts

• Employee Wellness Programs (EWP) show that companies care

• HRD professionals should develop the skills and expertise to design & deliver EWP

• Promoting employee health and well-being can contributes positively to an organization’s bottom line.

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• Employee well-being affects ability, availability, and readiness to perform a job

• Employee counseling encompasses a lot of areas

• It is an HRD function that:– Ensures that employees are now

effective contributors to the organization, and that they will continue to be in the future

– Needs professionals who are qualified to deal with the difficult issues involved with this topic

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Wellness and Lifestyle: Win, Win, Win

By investing in worksite wellness:• Employee WINS: reduced risk,

healthier, happier, longer lives• Employer WINS: increased work

performance, reduced health care utilization, moderation of costs, retention and recruitment

• Community WINS: reduced health risks, higher quality of life, economic impact

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Making Business Sense

Employee Wellness

Employee Engagement

Employee Productivity

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“The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.”

Hippocrates

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