Healthy Employees: Contributions of Hospitality Employee Wellness Programs
Location
Gran Canaria
Participation
Not sure
Type of Submission
Paper Presentation
Short Abstract
Wellness has come to the forefront of people’s lives whether it be in personal lives or professional lives, which spill over into each. A lack of well-being due to work can negatively impact an employee’s personal life. Thus, wellness encompassed in the work domain is of importance to sustain effects that may either spill over into or be gained in the personal domain. Using the Health Resource Framework (Lehto & Lehto, 2019), this study aims to uncover which wellness program components employees are currently participating in, and the employees’ perception of the impact of these components on their well-being. We propose that these same components can be extended to the workplace where wellness programs at work can benefit these four components, which would also spill into employees’ personal lives. Employing a case study approach through interviews with corporate benefits managers, operations managers, and line-level employees with one hotel organization, the study will be one of the first to extend the Health Resource Framework from tourists to hospitality employees. Practically, this study will provide insights as to which wellness program components employees value and of those, which contribute to their overall sense of wellness.
Healthy Employees: Contributions of Hospitality Employee Wellness Programs
Gran Canaria
Wellness has come to the forefront of people’s lives whether it be in personal lives or professional lives, which spill over into each. A lack of well-being due to work can negatively impact an employee’s personal life. Thus, wellness encompassed in the work domain is of importance to sustain effects that may either spill over into or be gained in the personal domain. Using the Health Resource Framework (Lehto & Lehto, 2019), this study aims to uncover which wellness program components employees are currently participating in, and the employees’ perception of the impact of these components on their well-being. We propose that these same components can be extended to the workplace where wellness programs at work can benefit these four components, which would also spill into employees’ personal lives. Employing a case study approach through interviews with corporate benefits managers, operations managers, and line-level employees with one hotel organization, the study will be one of the first to extend the Health Resource Framework from tourists to hospitality employees. Practically, this study will provide insights as to which wellness program components employees value and of those, which contribute to their overall sense of wellness.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/itsa/ITSA2022/ITSA2022/18