...Jayden R. Hunter; Brett A. Gordon; Stephen R. Bird; Amanda C. Benson Purpose Workplace exercise programmes have been shown to increase employee participation in physical activities and improve health and fitness in the short-term. However, the limited breadth of employee engagement across...

... located in the Southeastern USA. Design/methodology/approach The authors used latent class analysis to identify segments of office workers (n=239) based on their self-reported activities of daily living and exercise behaviors. The authors examined the association of demographic...

... and supports across multiple hospital and foodservice systems. Evaluation Health promotion Exercise Workplace health Workplace wellness Nutrition The obesity epidemic continues to be a public health issue in the USA (Ogden et al., 2012). In the state of Texas, approximately 30.4...

... lowest). Unique barriers were identified for each job classification such as time constraints, following their own exercise program, and schedule conflicts. Results also indicated a difference in those meeting PA recommendations (χ2: p<0.001; faculty highest, staff lowest...

...). Originality/value – The study is the first to highlight the large proportion of time university faculty members spend in sedentary activities and factors that could be addressed to reduce this time. Exercise Health promotion Workplace health Workplace wellness Morbidity and mortality Sedentary...

...Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz; Petra Lindfors Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects on fitness outcomes of a work-based physical exercise (PE) intervention among women working in older people’s care. In addition, effects on productivity-related outcomes including work...

... intention to engage in PA and high perceived barriers to PA (Chinn et al., 2006 ; Lakerveld et al., 2008). Other barriers to participation in programmes include low self-efficacy for exercise (Edmunds et al., 2013), lack of motivation and interest in PA, and the presence of other...

... of operation), and motivational climate (i.e. feeling valued, welcomed, best effort was emphasized). Current users highlighted positive aspects of each category whereas former and never users described each category as a barrier to their exercise routines. Practical implications – The identified themes...

... used in the analyses for this paper as these were time points where objective health data were collected. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Public health Employee behaviour Exercise Workplace Health Health promotion The benefits of being physically active are well...

... Southeastern university. Participants were healthy, full-time employees (working minimum of 35 hours/week) working in sedentary desk/computer dependent occupations (reported sitting minimum 75 percent of work time). They were also devoid of ambulatory/exercise limitations, and free from overt cardiovascular...

...Paul Gorczynski; Hiren Patel Purpose – Most long-haul truck drivers are physically inactive. Despite being identified as a source of health information, online physical activity and exercise information has not been evaluated for this population. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate...

...: self-efficacy for exercise; attitudes towards PA; lack of time and energy; facilities and the physical environment; response to the PA programme and PA culture. Barriers occurred at multiple levels of influence, and support the use of ecological or multilevel models to help guide future programme...

... Limited 2013 Stress Employee behaviour Exercise Health and productivity Workplace health As highlighted recently, the incidence of chronic disease including obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease within Australia has increased resulting in greater health expenditure costs of ∼5...

... collar (coded Australian Standard Classification of Occupations coding system (ASCO) (n.d.) . Jason Bennie can be contacted at: jabenn@deakin.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Exercise Social environment Workplace Australia Physical inactivity...

... for such schemes. Originality/value Workplace wellness schemes are financially viable and can become a vital part of a large organisations' infrastructure embedded within policies and internal “health culture”. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Workplace Exercise Employees Personal...

...). Personal health Workplace Exercise Australia Risk analysis Diseases Workplace efficiency and productivity are of critical importance to ensure workplace viability. It is known that good health is positively associated with workplace participation and productivity while poor health...

... am‐10.00 am) on the same day each week by two trained observers from the research study team. Observers recorded stair counts with gender and direction of travel using a pre‐designed, standard data collection tool. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Hospitals Exercise Public...

... circumference (women=9.5 cm; men=5.9 cm) and lower systolic (women=7.6 mmHg; men=8.5 mmHg) and diastolic (women=6 mmHg; men=2.3 mmHg) blood pressure. Nicholas Gilson can be contacted at: n.gilson1@uq.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Universities Employees Exercise Cross...

...Lindsey Dugdill; J.C. Coulson; J. McKenna; M. Field Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the interplay of workplace exercising on self‐reported workplace performance. Design/methodology/approach A mixed methods design combined a randomised cross‐over trial with concurrent focus...