Physical exercise,employee fitness and the management of health at work |
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| Authors: | Tom Cox Gordon Gotts Neil Boot John Kerr |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Stress Research, Department of Psychology , University of Nottingham , Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK;2. Department of Psychology , Swinburne Institute of Technology , Hawthorne, Melbourne, Australia;3. Department of Physical Education , Dutch Business School , Nijenrode, Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Abstract This paper presents some recent data on why organizations invest in exercise and physical fitness programmes for their stiff. These data suggest that, owing to a lack of evaluation studies, organizations act mainly on the basis of assumption and belief. However, from a subsequent review of the available literature on the personal and organizational effects of such programmes, it appears that these assumptions and beliefs are not altogether unfounded. The paper concludes by discussing the ways in which exercise and employee fitness programmes might help die individual and their organization in terms of the management of health at work. |
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| Keywords: | exercise employee fitness psychological effects physical effects organizational effects evaluation stress health |
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