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State of worksite health promotion in companies with and without Quality‐Management systems: A comparative study
Author(s) -
Bauer Georg F.,
Müller Frithjof,
Inauen Alice,
Brink Mark,
Laeubli Thomas
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
human factors and ergonomics in manufacturing and service industries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.408
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1520-6564
pISSN - 1090-8471
DOI - 10.1002/hfm.20192
Subject(s) - certification , scope (computer science) , institutionalisation , quality management system , business , promotion (chess) , quality management , quality (philosophy) , empirical evidence , health promotion , management system , operations management , service (business) , marketing , process management , health care , engineering , medicine , economics , computer science , economic growth , management , philosophy , psychiatry , law , epistemology , political science , programming language , politics
The goal of comprehensive worksite health promotion (WHP) is to protect and promote the health and performance of employees. WHP principles link health‐promotion activities to existing management systems, such as Quality Management (QM), to better integrate these activities into goals and processes of the company. Accordingly, it was hypothesized that the presence of a QM system is related to increased institutionalization and scope of WHP. Swiss companies in the service sector with a certified QM system ( N = 289) were compared to a random sample of service‐sector companies without QM systems ( N = 334). The results show that the presence of a certified QM system is related to the quality of WHP, as companies have both a stronger institutionalization and a broader scope of WHP compared to companies without a certified QM system. The present study produced empirical evidence that QM systems might be an enhancing factor for WHP. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.