دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی مطالعه فرهنگی بین المللی، بررسی رابطه وضعیت خطر سلامت کارکنان و معیارهای عملکرد کار - NCBI 2017

Abstract

Background: Health risk assessments (HRA) are used by many organisations as a basis for developing relevant and targeted employee health and well-being interventions. However, many HRA’s have a western-centric focus and therefore it is unclear whether the results can be directly extrapolated to those from non-western countries. More information regarding the differences in the associations between country status and health risks is needed along with a more global perspective of employee health risk factors and well-being overall. Therefore we aimed to i) quantify and compare associations for a number of health risk factors based on country status, and then ii) explore which characteristics can aid better prediction of well-being levels and in turn workplace productivity globally. Methods: Online employee HRA data collected from 254 multi-national companies, for the years 2013 through 2016 was analysed (n = 117,274). Multiple linear regression models were fitted, adjusting for age and gender, to quantify associations between country status and health risk factors. Separate regression models were used to assess the prediction of well-being measures related to productivity. Results: On average, the developing countries were comprised of younger individuals with lower obesity rates and markedly higher job satisfaction compared to their developed country counterparts. However, they also reported higher levels of anxiety and depression, a greater number of health risks and lower job effectiveness. Assessment of key factors related to productivity found that region of residency was the biggest predictor of presenteeism and poor pain management was the biggest predictor of absenteeism. Conclusions: Clear differences in health risks exist between employees from developed and developing countries and these should be considered when addressing well-being and productivity in the global workforce.

Conclusions

As this study was able to draw upon a substantial sample involving 120 countries across a variety of health measures, the findings were both supportive of previous research and insightful in areas not yet explored globally. Associations between health status and productivity are extensive. However, despite previously mentioned limitations, it is clear that there are differences in the type and number of heath risk factors between developing and developed countries. This accentuates the importance of using population specific HRA across diverse work place settings as the development of effective well-being programmes is dependent on targeting relevant health risk factors.

Finally, the results related to HRA in general are very beneficial to corporations as it is clear that health risk factors related to increasing productivity are highly modifiable with well-being programs globally