Answer to Question 1
Answer: The most commonly offered in-house corporate wellness programs involve efforts to promote exercise and fitness. To understand the interest in such programs, consider the results of physical inactivity: obesity, hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, anxiety, depression, and certain types of cancer. From management's viewpoint, physical fitness programs make a lot of sense. Loss of productivity resulting from coronary disease alone costs U.S. businesses billions of dollars annually. Company-sponsored fitness programs often reduce absenteeism, accidents, and sick pay. There is increasing evidence that if employees stick to company fitness programs, they will experience better health, and the firm will have lower health costs.
Answer to Question 2
Answer: Burnout, while rarely fatal, is an incapacitating condition in which individuals lose a sense of the basic purpose and fulfillment of their work. Individuals become exhausted either physically or mentally or both when burnout occurs. Seemingly the body or the mind can no longer handle the overwhelmingly high demands placed on it. Burnout is often associated with a midlife or midcareer crisis, but it can happen at different times to different people. When this occurs, they may lose their motivation to perform. When burnout occurs, individuals seem to lose their enthusiasm for their job. Burnout is frequently associated with people whose jobs require them to work closely with others under stressful and tension-filled conditions. However, any employee may experience burnout, and no one is exempt. The dangerous part of burnout is that it is contagious. A highly cynical and pessimistic burnout victim can quickly transform an entire group into burnouts. Virtual teams that exist over the long term (more than a year) often run a strong risk of declining performance due to team burnout. It is very important that the problem be dealt with quickly. Some means of dealing with burnout include keeping expectations realistic, reducing workload, finding ways to relax at work, and developing and maintaining interests outside work.
Physical fitness is part of an emerging value cluster.
Interaction of Wellness Components
Exercise Intensity on Fat Metabolism
Sample Exercise Program for Limited Older Adults (cont.)
Physical Fitness and Cancer Risk
Physical Fitness Profile Form.