Company Health and Wellness : Company Culture

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

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

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

Some healthy culture signs in a organization are:

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