A comparison of workplace-related labels in Switzerland
| Autor: | Michael Kirschner, Michael Gabathuler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Knowledge management business.industry Best practice media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Certificate Variety (cybernetics) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Ranking Scale (social sciences) 0502 economics and business Business Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Quality (business) 030212 general & internal medicine business Dissemination 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Workplace Health Management. 12:405-423 |
| ISSN: | 1753-8351 |
| Popis: | Purpose In Switzerland, the first and only Swiss quality label for systematic workplace health management (WHM) competes with a variety of national and international workplace-related labels for the attention of employers. The purpose of this paper is to compare the label “Friendly Work Space” (FWS) with ten other national and international workplace-related labels on the “Swiss label market” and to identify key success elements for the development and dissemination of WHM labels. Design/methodology/approach A literature review and qualitative analysis of publicly available documents were conducted. Information was obtained from providers or by the authors’ own research. A description of workplace-related labels is presented based on defined criteria and a typology classifying workplace-related labels available in Switzerland. Findings Workplace-related labels can be differentiated in terms of: deliberate registration vs non-requested selection, policy vs marketing approach and assessment vs survey-based analysis. In terms of sustainable dissemination, FWS is the most successful registration-based label in Switzerland regarding the number of employees and employers benefitting from the label. Therefore, it constitutes a best practice approach for developing and disseminating a WHM label. Originality/value To the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to systematically analyse and compare a WHM with other workplace-related labels on a national market (supply and demand, quality, dissemination). The authors suggest a specific typology to describe the market. Recommendations are given to build up and successfully disseminate a WHM label on a national scale. |
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