Posted by admin | Posted in Employee Wellness, wellness program | Posted on 22-07-2010
What Do You Want to Achieve?
Think about why you are reviewing and what your evaluation is going to measure.
If you’re trying to determine whether an program has been successful, see when you followed your mission statement and met your objectives and objectives.
When you don’t have a mission statement or objectives or objectives, decide with upper-level management and your staff member committee how your company will measure success.
For instance, you can measure success by changes in –
• Physical measures (e.g., strength, flexibility, waist circumference of employees).
• Psychological measures (e.g., staff member morale, satisfaction levels, stress levels).
• Productivity measures (e.g., decrease in absenteeism rates, increased worker productivity).
Thinking About Employees
When you’re considering making improvements to the initiative, think about whether the initiative is still relevant and appropriate for personnel. Find out when there are any barriers to participation in the wellness program or to participation in physical activity during the workday.
As staff are the ones participating in the wellness program, it’s vital that you give them a chance to provide feedback on the exercise initiative.
Picking an Evaluation Method
Decide on your analysis method. Both measurable results (e.g., absenteeism rates or questionnaire responses) and descriptive results (e.g., one-on-one interviews or focus groups) may be used to evaluate.
The method you choose will depend on the time and funding available and what you want to measure.
Deciding How to Do the Evaluation
Plan when and where you will do your evaluation (and who’ll be investigated). for more information, peruse the “Kinds of Investigations” section on this website.
You might want to pilot test your evaluation (e.g., with members of the staff member committee) before sending it out to personnel. The staff member committee may also want to evaluate the program’s planning process.
Doing the Evaluation
• Compare your results to baseline information (i.e., analysis results from before the launch of your initiative). When you don’t have this information, save your analysis results to compare with later results.
You can also look at other information you might have, such as employee satisfaction survey results.
• Analyse and share meaningful and easy-to-understand results with executive management and workforce.
• Investigation results could be used to improve the current exercise program and/or to create new health promotion programs in future.