Workplace Physical Activity Programs – Evaluation Guide.

What Do You Want to Achieve?

Think about why you’re assessing  and what your evaluation is going to measure.

When you are trying to find out whether an initiative 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 goals or goals, decide with management and your employee committee how your organization will measure success.

For  instance, you are able to 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 staff member productivity).

Thinking About Employees

When you’re considering making improvements to the initiative, think about whether the initiative is still relevant and appropriate for employees. Find out when there are any barriers to participation in the program or to participation in physical activity during the workday.

As staff members are the ones participating in the program, it’s important to give them a chance to provide feedback on the physical activity initiative.

Picking an Examination Method

Decide on your examination 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.

Determining How to Do the Analysis

Plan when and where you’ll do your examination (and who’ll be evaluated). for additional information, peruse the “Kinds of Analysiss” section on this website.

You might want to pilot test your analysis (e.g., with members of the employee committee) before sending it out to workers. the employee committee might also want to evaluate the initiative’s planning process.

Doing the Examination

• Compare your results to baseline information (i.e., analysis results from before the launch of your initiative). When you do not have this information, save your analysis results to compare with later results.

You can also look at other information you may have, such as worker satisfaction survey results.

• Analyse and share meaningful and easy-to-understand results with management and staff members.

• Analysis results can be used to improve the current physical activity program and/or to create new programs in future.