SHN7082 - Workplace Wellbeing

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the workplace wellbeing agenda and its external drivers.
Produce a cost and benefit evaluation of workplace wellbeing interventions and their function within a range of complex business problems.
Demonstrate critical analysis of the key operational decisions within delivery of workplace wellbeing.
Consider how workplace wellbeing can become a sustainable feature throughout a business organisation.
Incorporate project management skills and elements of self-evaluation in planning sustainable workplace wellbeing.

Content:

Students will consider workplace wellbeing and its effect upon national issues such as disability and unemployment, sickness/absence, chronic health issues, NHS spending and their associated tax-burden. Within the workplace, students will consider the application of strategic arguments into action and interventions in the business environment and will review and develop project management skills for planning complex projects.

Learning and Teaching Information:

The module will be delivered using a mixture of face-to-face intensive lectures and seminars, supported with e-learning tasks. Student learning will be supported and evaluated through completion of interactive forums, web based seminars and individual and group tutorials.

Lectures/seminars
Hours: 2
Intended Group size: Cohort

On-line and e-learning tasks
Hours: 50 (5h per week x 10 weeks)
Intended Group size: 1

On-line seminars/web based seminars
Hours: 3
Intended Group size: Cohort

Individual tutorials
Hours: 1

Guided independent study
Hours: 144

Further details relating to assessment
Students will identify a work related health and wellbeing intervention and will produce a cost benefit analysis for action, supplemented with a detailed action plan, which demonstrates key project management skills.

Assessment:

001 Cost/Benefit evaluation of a work based case for intervention; 2,000 words; mid-semester 1 50%
002 Associated action plan; 2,000 words; end of semester 1 50%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Nina Fryer
Level - 7
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 7PGS1

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