Effective Workplace Health and Wellbeing Interventions: A Technical Report

Core Features of Healthy Organizations

Knowledge

1. Explain the core features of healthy organizations

2.Identify measurement tools for individual and organizational health and wellbeing Thinking skills

3. Recognize principal workplace health and wellbeing facilitation models Subject-based practical skills

4. Determine individual and organizational needs for better health and wellbeing

5. Select models and theories relevant in handling particular health and wellbeing issues

Skills for life and work (general skills)

6. Communicate contemporary workplace health and wellbeing interventions to public audience and researchers

The structure of your technical report should include sections, identified below:

1. Title page (NOT INCLUDED IN THE WORD COUNT)

2. 200-word abstract (focusing on the background/ rationale, methods and key findings)

3. Brief introduction into the problem and rationale for the technical report. In this section you discuss reasons/ arguments why this particular topic is important to focus on for that particular industry/ sample/ group of people

4. Methods and procedures

a. What research databases have you used?

b. How many interventions have you reviewed? (you should review at least 10 interventions on the identified topic)

c. What were the criteria you have used to judge about the intervention effectiveness?

d. Study characteristics: how many studies have been reviewed and included in your report? Peculiarities of the samples, i.e. who were the respondents (their age, gender, educational background, occupation). Number of respondents and types of organisations in the reviewed studies.

5. Results and Discussion

a. Please, describe interventions, i.e. what was involved in the delivery of the interventions and what made them effective or otherwise?

b. Practical implications and implications for the future research

Component 2 (Presentation): Models and workplace interventions that have been proven effective in the past should be reported in a conference-like presentation or a presentation given to organizational representatives (depending on your choice).

Presentations are pre-recorded on Panopto and uploaded on Moodle via Turnitin.

1. Your presentation should be between 8 and 10 minutes.

2. It should include power point slides or other visual tools that help your audience to better understand the information

3. In the slides you need to report:

a. Rationale for your review, i.e. why is it important to review interventions in this particular area/ around this particular topic?

b. Definition of the phenomenon you are focusing on and negative/ positive outcomes for individuals/ groups/ organizations

c. Study characteristics: how many studies have been reviewed and included in your report? Peculiarities of the samples, i.e. who were the respondents (their age, gender, educational background, occupation). Number of respondents and types of organisations in the reviewed studies.

d. Which interventions proved to be successful and which failed? Why?

e. What are the recommendations for future research and practice?

WHAT IS FEEDBACK?

Feedback is crucial for your learning and it is an important part of the academic cycle. It tells you what the strengths are of your work, what its weaknesses are andhow it can be improved.

WHY IS FEEDBACK IMPORTANT?

Feedback is the most effective way to: Help you understand how to succeed in your assessments; Help you produce better work for the future; Signpost you to other resources for assistance.

If you pay attention to feedback, particularly where the same comment is made in several modules, you can use the information to improve.

WHERE DO I GET FEEDBACK?

• When a tutor comments on your answers in seminars/lectures/workshops

• General comment on assessment performance in lectures and seminars

• General comment on questions prepared for seminars

• When another student makes comments on your presentation

• When you produce practice questions for a tutor who gives comments

• When you receive written comments on your work submitted either as coursework or exam

• When you look at general feedback on module performance on UEL Direct.

• When you see your Academic Adviser with all your assessment feedback for general advice. You should always do this after each assessment period.