Tagged with front line managers

The hidden role of site managers: influencing construction workers’ eating habits

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
Published AuthorCentre Manager
SNAPO indicators — a catchy acronym used in health circles for behavioural risk factors associated with cardiovascular and other chronic diseases:Smoking,Nutrition,Alcohol,Physical activity, andOverweight and obesity. A team of researchers, led byWOW’sDr Rebecca Loudoun, surveyed 186 workers on six new or refurbishing mixed residential, office and retail building sites operated by the same firm around Brisbane […]

Hospital accreditation and HRM: a likely pair?

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
Published AuthorCentre Manager
In 2013, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reported more than one quarter of a million full-time equivalent persons to be employed in Australia’s public hospitals. As the most resource-intensive element of the healthcare system (with about 62 per cent of recurrent expenditure), the sector is under constant pressure to implement organisational change […]