Wellness Library : Workplace Physical Activity Programs: Evaluation Guide
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What Do You Wish to Achieve?
Think about why you’re evaluating and what your evaluation is going to measure.
If you’re trying to find out whether program has been efficacious, see if you stuck to your mission statement and met your goals and objectives.
If you do not have a mission statement or goals and objectives, decide with senior staff and your employee Corporate Wellness Program Committee how your organization will track success.
By way of example, you can measure success by changes in:
• Physical measures (e.g., strength, flexibility, waist circumference of employees).
• Psychological measures (e.g., employee morale, satisfaction levels, stress levels).
• Productivity measures (e.g., decrease in absenteeism rates, increased employee work rate).
Thinking About employees
If you’re considering making improvements to the plan, think about whether the plan is still relevant and appropriate for workers. See if there are any obstacles to participation in the program or to participation in physical activity during work.
As workers are the ones participating in the program, it’s important to give them a chance to offer feedback on the physical activity plan.
Choosing an Assessment Method
Decide on your evaluation method. Both measurable results (e.g., absenteeism rates or questionnaire responses) and descriptive results (e.g., one-on-one interviews or focus groups) can be used to evaluate. The method you choose will depend on the time and funding available and what you want to measure.
Deciding How to Do the Assessment
Plan when and where you will do your assessment (and who will be evaluated). For more information, read the “Types of Evaluations” section on this website.
You might want to pilot test your assessment (e.g., with participants of the Employee Health Promotion Program Committee) before sending it out to employees. The employee Employee Health Promotion Program Committee might also want to evaluate the initiative’s planning process.
Doing the Evaluation
• Compare your results to baseline information (i.e., evaluation results from before the launch of your plan). If you do not have this information, save your evaluation results to compare with later results. You can also look at other information you may have, such as employee satisfaction survey results.
• Analyze and share meaningful and simple-to-be aware of results with management and staff members.
• Evaluation results can be used to improve the current physical activity program and/or to advance new pushes in future.
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