Providing weight management via the workplace

Weight Control and the Workplace

Beating Obesity: Factors Associated with Interest in Workplace Weight Management Assistance in the Mining Industry

BACKGROUND Rates of overweight and obese Australians are high and continue to rise, putting a large proportion of the population at risk of chronic illness. Examining characteristics associated with preference for a work-based weight-loss program will enable employers to better target programs to increase enrolment and benefit employees' health and fitness for work. METHODS A cross-sectional ...

Information-Providing Dialogue Management

The central module of any natural language dialogue system is the dialogue manager, which plays the role of an intermediate agent between the user and the information source. Its cooperativity and portability highly determines the efficiency of the dialogue system. Therefore, as the basis for cooperativity of information-providing dialogue systems we propose a knowledge representation of the in...

Weight change and workplace absenteeism in the HealthWorks study.

OBJECTIVE Little is known about the relationship between weight change and workplace absenteeism. The purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which weight change predicted 2-year absenteeism. METHODS A longitudinal analysis of 1,228 employees enrolled in a worksite-randomized controlled trial was performed. Participants were all working adults in the Minneapolis, MN, area (USA). ...

Talent Management via Authentic Leadership

  The Purpose of this study is Survey The effect of the three components of authentic leadership, Self-awareness, Self-regulation and Behavior on Implementation of Talent Management process. The research is applied and survey was conducted in sample of 270 of force staff in the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company; for data gathering a questionnaire was used after reliability and...