CWHP-A Reflections: Unit WWC00

As I reflect on this unit, what has stood out to me the most is that building a healthy, high performing work culture strategy requires an integrated approach that aligns both employee well-being with organizational goals. The key to the development and implementation of the strategy may be entirely dependent upon buy-in from the leadership of the organization.

Based on my experience, no matter how solid your case may be that employee wellness and well-being are integral to a healthy organizational culture, that investing in such strategies will improve moral, increase job satisfaction, reduce employee turnover, and improve mental health, the truth of the matter is that may organizational leaders will not support anything that does not directly support their bottom line. For this reason, in some organizations the key to obtaining leadership support, or perhaps even the only way to obtain leadership support, is to clearly align the strategy with specific organizational goals that are tied to financial growth, though I wish this was not the case. If more leaders viewed their employees as people as opposed to just workers the case for wellness and well-being in the workplace would not be so hard to make.