Findings of the online evaluation survey confirmed this: only 15%% of the staff was very familiar with organizational policies related to staff well-being, policies being developed over the past three years.
Gallup's research has found that high levels of engagement are more important than specific well-being policies.
Butterball is "taking steps to help ensure that all new and existing associates have a clear understanding of our animal well-being policies," said Butterball CEO Rod Brenneman after the first offenses.
This gender informed approach could increase the efficiency of future ageing and well-being policies and programs.
However, without intelligence on how childhood factors impact adult well-being, policies are likely to focus largely on proximal factors (eg, income, employment, community engagement), potentially missing opportunities to improve adult well-being through childhood intervention.
Scanlon, E. & Devine, K. Residential mobility and youth well-being: research, policy, and practice issues.
At about that time, Scholes became involved in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, an international effort to assess changes in the world's ecosystems, likely consequences for human well-being, and policy options for sustainable use.
Since most governments nowadays recognise the importance of subjective measures of well-being for policy (Waldron 2010), and since the impact of immigration and of a diverse society is a highly debated topic (Finney and Simpson 2009), surprisingly little research has been done on the impact that cultural diversity has on individual subjective well-being.
In the end, the only reason not to accommodate family friendly (and well-being friendly) policy changes is a collective will not to do so on the part of your management and society and an even stronger will to maintain the status quo.
Data on child well-being gives policy makers important insights into the state of children in Namibia.
