Health and Wellness Leads : Organization Culture

Effective wellness programs recognize the importance of building a supportive cultural environment. The workplace culture includes shared values/heartfelt beliefs about what is significant. It includes social standards of expected and accepted behavior called “cultural norms.”

It includes peer backing from family, friends, and co-workers. This backing can help one adopt healthy lifestyles. Tools are available to audit a corporation.

The long-term success of any wellness program is dependent on the corporate culture.

Some healthy culture signs in a company are:

• employees communicate openly
• Leaders support diversity and opinion
• staff members have fun
• Policies support wellness
• workers are encouraged to grow
• staff members work together as a group
• employees’ skills and talents are matched to their jobs.
• Flexible work schedules are available
• Employers consider workers as their most significant asset