Performance Against WELCOA's Worksite Health Promotion Benchmarks Across Years Among Selected US Organizations.

Area of Science:

• Occupational Health
• Health Promotion
• Organizational Psychology

Background:

• Worksite health promotion (WHP) is crucial for employee well-being and organizational success.
• Benchmarking provides a framework for evaluating and improving WHP initiatives.
• The Wellness Council of America (WELCOA) developed the Well Workplace Checklist (WWC) to assess WHP performance against established benchmarks.

Purpose of the Study:

• To quantify the performance of organizations' worksite health promotion (WHP) activities.
• To evaluate WHP performance against the benchmarking criteria of the Well Workplace Checklist (WWC).

Main Methods:

• Utilized a convenience sample of 4643 entries from US organizations that completed the WWC between 2008 and 2015.
• The WWC is a 100-item tool assessing WELCOA's 7 performance benchmarks, including demographic, program, and performance scale questions.
• Descriptive analyses of WWC items were conducted annually.

Main Results:

• Participating organizations were predominantly medium- to large-sized, multisite, multishift companies in the services industry.
• WHP performance scores across WELCOA's 7 benchmarks remained consistent year-over-year.
• Lowest performance scores were observed in senior-level support, data collection, and programming.
• Highest performance scores were consistently in wellness teams and supportive environments.

Conclusions:

• Organizational performance in WHP benchmarks shows consistency despite economic and healthcare reforms.
• The WWC serves as a valuable tool for assessing the quality of WHP programs.
• Findings suggest areas for targeted improvement in organizational health promotion strategies.