Attitudes of Company Executives toward a Comprehensive Workplace Health Management—Results of an Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study in Germany

Workplace health management (WHM) in Germany aims at maintaining and increasing the health and well-being of employees. Little is known about company executives’ attitudes toward WHM. To gain more insight, we conducted a large-scale survey in companies in the German county of Reutlingen in 2017. We...

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Autores principales:	Achim Siegel, Aileen C. Hoge, Anna T. Ehmann, Peter Martus, Monika A. Rieger
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	workplace health management total worker health occupational safety and health small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) cross-sectional survey self-administered questionnaire Medicine R
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:43d5226c386b4658a9edcd19fdf611f02021-11-11T16:36:09ZAttitudes of Company Executives toward a Comprehensive Workplace Health Management—Results of an Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study in Germany10.3390/ijerph1821114751660-46011661-7827https://doaj.org/article/43d5226c386b4658a9edcd19fdf611f02021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/21/11475https://doaj.org/toc/1661-7827https://doaj.org/toc/1660-4601Workplace health management (WHM) in Germany aims at maintaining and increasing the health and well-being of employees. Little is known about company executives’ attitudes toward WHM. To gain more insight, we conducted a large-scale survey in companies in the German county of Reutlingen in 2017. We sent a standardized questionnaire to 906 companies, containing inter alia 26 self-constructed declarative statements depicting company executives’ opinions on various WHM aspects; 222 questionnaires could be evaluated. By exploratory factor analysis we assigned the 26 items to six factors reflecting different attitudes toward WHM. Factor values were standardized to a scale from 0 to 10. The attitude ‘positive view of <i>general</i> health services in the company’, for example, achieved by far the lowest mean agreement (3.3 points). For the attitude ‘general skepticism toward WHM’, agreement and disagreement were balanced (5.0 points). Using multiple regression analyses, we searched for variables that could partially explain respondents’ agreement with attitudes. In conclusion, a general WHM skepticism was widespread, but not dominant. The idea that <i>general</i> health services should be offered in companies was predominantly rejected. Older respondents and respondents from smaller companies and craft enterprises were more skeptical than average about WHM and its possible extensions.Achim SiegelAileen C. HogeAnna T. EhmannPeter MartusMonika A. RiegerMDPI AGarticleworkplace health managementtotal worker healthoccupational safety and healthsmall and medium-sized enterprises (SME)cross-sectional surveyself-administered questionnaireMedicineRENInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 11475, p 11475 (2021)
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description	Workplace health management (WHM) in Germany aims at maintaining and increasing the health and well-being of employees. Little is known about company executives’ attitudes toward WHM. To gain more insight, we conducted a large-scale survey in companies in the German county of Reutlingen in 2017. We sent a standardized questionnaire to 906 companies, containing inter alia 26 self-constructed declarative statements depicting company executives’ opinions on various WHM aspects; 222 questionnaires could be evaluated. By exploratory factor analysis we assigned the 26 items to six factors reflecting different attitudes toward WHM. Factor values were standardized to a scale from 0 to 10. The attitude ‘positive view of <i>general</i> health services in the company’, for example, achieved by far the lowest mean agreement (3.3 points). For the attitude ‘general skepticism toward WHM’, agreement and disagreement were balanced (5.0 points). Using multiple regression analyses, we searched for variables that could partially explain respondents’ agreement with attitudes. In conclusion, a general WHM skepticism was widespread, but not dominant. The idea that <i>general</i> health services should be offered in companies was predominantly rejected. Older respondents and respondents from smaller companies and craft enterprises were more skeptical than average about WHM and its possible extensions.
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author	Achim Siegel Aileen C. Hoge Anna T. Ehmann Peter Martus Monika A. Rieger
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title	Attitudes of Company Executives toward a Comprehensive Workplace Health Management—Results of an Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study in Germany
title_short	Attitudes of Company Executives toward a Comprehensive Workplace Health Management—Results of an Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study in Germany
title_full	Attitudes of Company Executives toward a Comprehensive Workplace Health Management—Results of an Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study in Germany
title_fullStr	Attitudes of Company Executives toward a Comprehensive Workplace Health Management—Results of an Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study in Germany
title_full_unstemmed	Attitudes of Company Executives toward a Comprehensive Workplace Health Management—Results of an Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study in Germany
title_sort	attitudes of company executives toward a comprehensive workplace health management—results of an exploratory cross-sectional study in germany
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Attitudes of Company Executives toward a Comprehensive Workplace Health Management—Results of an Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study in Germany

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