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A company currently spends over $1 billion in health-related areas. The company has multiple locations.
The VP of HR has been tasked with:
• Developing a strategy to improve employee health, reduce costs, and limit the company’s risks.
• Linking the health-care strategy to corporate strategy.
1.What can HR do to ensure that the new health-care strategy is understood and the benefit is used effectively by all employees?
a.Develop and mail health-care brochures to each employee’s home.
b.Send a mass e-mail to all employees about the new health-care system.
c.Conduct a health fair at each location and present the new benefit.
d.At each location, introduce providers and lead Q&A sessions with all employees.
choose three answers from the above options and provide with reasoning to each option selected.( HR Strategic Planning)
Expert Answer
In order to make health care strategy easily understood and effectively implemented by employees, the three most effective ways are:
- Send a mass e-mail to all employees about the new health-care system-this method is a quick method to deliver necessary knowledge to all employees of the company .it is cost effective tool to communicate the health care strategy. It can be of any length and describe as many written details as possible. But the strategy is to write a motivating email with curiosity generating headlines to make employees curious to read the whole email. This email can be saved for future reference if someone is not clear of the company’s strategy at one reading.
- Conduct a health fair at each location and present the new benefit-this method help the HR to encourage employees to take part in such strategy by showing different benefits of implementing the strategy in practical life. It is a kind of face to face description of the strategy. in this case the HR can get insight into employees willingness to go forward with the strategy by their enthusiastic participation in the health fair.the HR can get valuable feedback from the employees and could decide that whether there is a need to make some changes in the staregy.this will be a costly started but in the long term it will reap benefits in the form of employee participation in making health care strategy a success.
- At each location, introduce providers and lead Q&A sessions with all employees-by introducing providers ,HR Can build confidence amongst employs of this being a major event and there is the need for the employees to support such strategy enthusiasticly.with Q&A sessions HR can gain insight into what employees think at the core of their mind and heart regarding such strategy
