Chapter SevenREDUCE HEALTH-CARE EXPENSES
You may not enjoy having to rouseyour employees to improve theirhealth habits, but kaizen makesthings simple and even pleasant.
A few decades ago, no one would have dreamed that managers could or should feel responsible for changing their employees’ health habits. Yet as health care has become a significant cost for organizations, that’s what has happened. If staff members get healthy, the organization saves money.
One way corporations encourage their employees to do better is through incentives: they offer money to people who can demonstrate improved health behaviors. Another method is to apply social pressure, with departments competing against one another to see which can lose the most weight. Even ...
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