Healthy Organizations: A Competitiveness Strategy
Erika T. Quintero, José L. Botía, and Fabiola. Sáenz
Distrital University Francisco José de Caldas/Engineering faculty, Bogotá, Colombia
Abstract—This article is about the concept of Healthy Or-ganizations –understanding it as the one which offers a high level of wellbeing to their employees, which positively im-pacts their productivity- as a strategy to increase organiza-tional productiveness. In order to achieve this, an interdis-ciplinary research was proposed, involving concepts of engineering, management, psychology, work medicine and industrial security. In this research, 873 employees were surveyed in 11 manufacturing enterprises in Bogotá city, a statistical analysis was made, and the financial condition model was adapted and applied –including analytical hierarchization and the opinion of experts- to assign weights to the variables. It was found that in a 1 to 10 scale the Health level in such companies is 6.25 and it was not found any significant difference among office and production jobs.
Index Terms—analytical hierarchization, financial condition model, healthy organizations, productivity.
Cite:Erika T. Quintero, José L. Botía, and Fabiola. Sáenz, "Healthy Organizations: A Competitiveness Strategy," Journal of Advanced Management Science, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 39-42, March 2013. doi: 10.12720/joams.1.1.39-42
Index Terms—analytical hierarchization, financial condition model, healthy organizations, productivity.
Cite:Erika T. Quintero, José L. Botía, and Fabiola. Sáenz, "Healthy Organizations: A Competitiveness Strategy," Journal of Advanced Management Science, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 39-42, March 2013. doi: 10.12720/joams.1.1.39-42