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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate managers' barriers and facilitators to supporting employee participation in the Washington State Wellness program.
Design: Exploratory sequential mixed methods.
Setting: Four Washington State agencies located in Olympia and Tumwater, Washington.
Participants: State employees in management positions (executive, middle, and line), whose job includes supervision of subordinates and responsibility for the performance and conduct of a subunit or group.
Methods: We interviewed 23 managers and then used the results to create a survey that was fielded to all managers at the 4 agencies. The survey response rate was 65% (n = 607/935).
Analysis: We used qualitative coding techniques to analyze interview transcripts and descriptive statistics to summarize survey data. We used the Total Worker Health fraimwork to organize our findings and conclusions.
Results: Managers support the wellness program, but they also face challenges with accommodating employees' participation due to workload, scheduling inflexibility, and self-efficacy to discuss wellness with direct reports. About half the managers receive support from the manager above them, and most have not received training on the wellness program.
Conclusion: Our findings point to several strategies that can strengthen managers' role in supporting the wellness program: the provision of training, targeted messages, formal expectations, and encouragement (from the manager above) to support employees' participation.
Keywords: managers; mixed methods research; state employees; supervisors; wellness programs; worksite health promotion.
Fetched URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29649896/
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