WORK, CORPORATE CULTURE, AND STRESS - IMPLICATIONS FOR WORKSITE HEALTH PROMOTION

Stress is gaining prominence as a contributor to poor health outcomes and increased health costs. Program initiatives that have exclusively focused on employee accountability have proved ineffective in the long term. Health promotion professionals must begin to look at alternativ e program strategies to improve health status within the workplace com munity. For this to occur professionals must begin to understand and c onfront the socioecological variables that impact worker stress and he alth status, in particular the work people do and the culture in which they do it.