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Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 4, 579-591 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/109019819902600413

Health Behavior, Quality of Work Life, and Organizational Effectiveness in the Lumber Industry

Stewart I. Donaldson, PhD

Department of Psychology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CaliforniaStewart.Donaldson{at}cgu.edu

Steve Sussman, PhD

Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Clyde W. Dent, PhD

Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Herbert H. Severson, PhD

Oregon Research Institute, Eugene

Jacqueline L. Stoddard, PhD

Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

A major incentive for work-site health promotion activities has been the promise of increased company profitability. Some critics have challenged the economic argument based on distal outcomes such as increased employee longevity and less morbidity later in life. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between employee health behavior, quality of work life, and proximal organizationally valued outcomes. Data were collected from a stratified random sample of employees working at Pacific Lumber Company (N = 146), the largest single-site lumber mill in California. Although employee sleep patterns predicted health care utilization and psychological well-being, for the most part employee health behaviors were not strong predictors of proximal organizational effectiveness factors. However, quality-of-work-life factors significantly predicted organizational commitment, absenteeism, and tardiness frequency. The findings suggest the value of improving the system of work in which employees are embedded as part of comprehensive work-site health promotion efforts.


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