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project info
Start date: 1 March 2020
End date: 30 June 2023
funding
Fund: European Social Fund (ESF)
Total budget: 1 320 855,00 €
EU contribution: 464 452,00 € (35,16%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2020
Managing authority: työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö, yritys- ja alueosaston rakennerahastot ja koheesiopolitiikka -ryhmä
European Commission Topic

Focus on managing well-being at work!

In recent years, much has been said about the importance of well-being at work for companies’ productivity and for the economy as a whole. Well-being at work is also an essential element in assessing the quality of working life. The problem is that in many, especially SMEs, well-being at work has not been perceived as something that can and should lead as planned, objectively and comprehensively. The project therefore focuses on developing well-being management at work. In addition, the project will take into account the problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic for businesses and workers. Many companies have had to suspend all or part of their work due to customer loss, have moved to work in home conditions, have to deal with things in a virtual manner, have to learn a lot of new things in a hurry, and at the same time solve difficult financial problems. There is fear of the survival of health and work, and the future looks uncertain. In this situation, well-being at work is a hard test.A solution to the problem. In companies, activities related to well-being at work are often isolated, short-sighted and momentary, do not form a whole and are not managed in a targeted and planned manner. The project develops a method of well-being management (a fitness school for well-being at work), which is applicable to the needs of various companies. It enables companies to improve the planning of well-being management (e.g. target setting and budgeting), organisation, evaluation and efficiency. To this end, the project will also create and bring together various tools for well-being at work. As a new tool, the project will develop an easy-to-use and free-of-charge application for well-being at work using a computer and smartphone. It enables companies to identify the development needs of well-being management at work and to receive tools and guidelines for self-help management and employee participatory development. There is no such application in the past. The project also provides guidance on how to manage well-being at work in crisis situations related to coronavirus and other crises. The concrete objectives of the project are 1) to establish a method of assessment and development of well-being management at work that identifies the level and development needs of the company’s well-being management, and which guides development activities according to development needs, 2) develops and assembles tools for well-being at work, of which the key digital application, 3) make guidance for crisis situations, and 4) disseminate crisis guidance, assessment and development methods and a ready-made application nationwide to companies’ awareness. The general objective is to develop the management of well-being at work at national level.Project outputs/results. The outputs are 1) a model of well-being management at work and 2) a well-being management school method (a broad set), which enables companies to evaluate and develop the management of well-being at work. It consists of a) a) fitness survey of occupational wellbeing management, which includes a question radiator system, and with which companies self-assess their condition of well-being at work. b) As a result of the question battery system, the method provides feedback on the level of well-being management at work and highlights the development needs of occupational wellbeing management. A simple and easy-to-use digital application is developed as a new evaluation method for the well-being management fitness school method. 3) ABC crisis management guidance for well-being at work, which functions both as a whole and as part of the well-being management fitness school method. 4) User guide to the assessment method of well-being at work. 5) Prepared ABC crisis management guidelines for well-being at work and the method of well-being at work fitness school with digital applications have been widely disseminated and used in the country’s companies and organisations through various channels and entities. 6) Evaluation data on the impact of well-being management in pilot companies.Participants. The universities of Vaasa, Oulu, Lapland, Jyväskylä and Turku, as well as Oulu, Jyväskylä and Turku University of Applied Sciences, are participants. The group is well-functioning and the operators are experienced experts in management, well-being at work and digital technology. The project is coordinated by the University of Vaasa. The target group is mainly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the regions of the participants (between 5 and 10 enterprises/area of implementation).Methods/measures. The development methods used in the project include joint group work (also virtual), workshop work with companies in different areas, testing of a digital application between part-users and with companies, evaluation from companies, piloting of a digital application, development of well-being at work

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