Employee Health Promotion

What Do You Wish to Achieve?

Ponder why you’re evaluating and what your evaluation is going to measure. If you’re trying to find out whether plan has been successful, see if you followed your mission statement and met your goals/objectives. If you do not have a mission statement or goals/objectives, decide with upper management and your employee Employee Health Promotion Committee how your organization will measure success. For example, you can measure success by changes in:

• Physical measures (e.g., strength, flexibility, waist circumference of employees).
• Psychological measures (e.g., employee morale, satisfaction levels, stress levels).
• Productivity measures (e.g., decline in absenteeism rates, increased employee productivity).

Thinking About employees

If you’re thinking of making improvements to the plan, think about whether the plan is still relevant and fitting for employees. See if there are any barriers to participation in the program or to participation in physical exercise during work. As employees are the ones participating in the program, it’s valuable to give them a chance to offer feedback on the physical exercise plan.

Choosing an Assessment Method

Decide on your evaluation method. Both measurable results (e.g., absenteeism rates or questionnaire responses) and descriptive results (e.g., one-on-one interviews or focus groups) can 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 Assessment

Decide when and where you will do your evaluation (and who will be evaluated). For more information, read the “Types of Evaluations” section on this website. You might want to pilot test your evaluation (e.g., with members of the Employee Health Promotion Committee) before sending it out to employees. The employee Employee Health Promotion Committee might also want to evaluate the initiative’s planning process.

Doing the Assessment

• Compare your outcome to baseline information (i.e., evaluation results from before the launch of your plan). If you do not have this information, save your evaluation outcome to compare with later results. You can also look at other information you may have, such as employee satisfaction survey results.
• Analyze and disseminate meaningful and simple-to-be aware of results with upper management and employees.
• Assessment results can be used to better the current physical exercise program and/or to cultivate new pushes in future.