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Is your company striving to address any of the following psychologically healthy workplace criterions? See below for best practices and the benefits a psychologically healthy workplace can bring to your organization. |
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Encourage and provide opportunities for employees to:
- Express opinions and give feedback about work environment and tasks, in a receptive environment.
- Participate in decision-making, problem solving, and influencing organizational development.
- Participate in conflict management.
- Share (and receive recognition for) any new ideas or innovations they have regarding the work process.
- Participate in his/her evaluation of job performance. Participative/collaborative performance management.
- Participative decision making
- Employee committees or Task Force
- Self managed work teams
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Work-Family-Life Balance
Programs and policies to help employees manage demands of work, family, and life responsibilities such as:
- Childcare assistance, including but not limited to access to information, onsite facilities, payment for childcare or dependent care assistance plans.
- Elder care assistance, including but not limited to resource and referral services and financial support for elder care.
- Flexible work arrangements, such as variable starting and ending times or working from home.
- Leave that exceeds legislative requirements for caring for mildly ill children.
- Easy access to effective EAP/EFAP - family problem resolution services.
- Resources to help manage personal financial issues.
- Availability of extended benefits for family members and partners.
- Flexibility in number of hours worked per week.
- Flexible leave options.
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Employee Recognition
| Rewarding employees individually and collectively for their contributions to the organization, such as:
- Fair monetary compensation.
- Competitive benefits packages.
- Acknowledgment of contributions and milestones.
- Performance-based bonuses & pay increases.
- Employee awards and recognition ceremonies
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Employee Growth & Development
Opportunities and encouragement for employees to pursue growth, education and training, such as:
- Further training leading to job enhancement (i.e., workshops, seminars and library resources).
- Training leading to career advancement (i.e. corporate universities, tuition reimbursement).
- Career counseling and management counseling (e.g. executive coaching, mentoring).
- Efforts to develop responsive and supportive supervisors (i.e. work/family needs, sensitivity to issues of diversity, performance appraisal needs).
- Identified career advancement leads within the organization.
- Continuing education courses
- Tuition reimbursement
- Opportunities for promotion and internal career advancement
- Mentorship and leadership development programs
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Health & Safety
| Encouragement and opportunities for employees to be involved in:
- Effective extended health and mental health benefits that include access to the services of registered psychologists.
- Where appropriate, medical surveillance for employees exposed to hazardous substances or situations.
- Injury prevention programs for both managers and the general work force (e.g., safety and security issues).
- Opportunities for employee influence over the work environment (i.e. light, noise, air quality, temperature and ventilation, cleaning).
- Opportunity for input through joint safety committees.
- Promotion of employee’s health and wellness (e.g., healthy lifestyle programs, health screenings, easy access to EAP/EFAP).
- Workplace safety training
- Healthy lifestyle education (weight loss, smoking cessation, stress management)
- Health Insurance, including mental health
- Access to or subsidy for health. fitness and recreation facilities
- Access to resources regarding issues such as: grief counseling, alcohol abuse programs mental health etc
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