An employee-centered framework for healthy workplaces: implementing a critically holistic, participative, and structural model through the Equitable Food Initiative

IF 1.6 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Journal of Applied Communication Research Pub Date : 2022-08-05 DOI:10.1080/00909882.2022.2106579

Heather M. Zoller, R. Strochlic, C. Getz

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Critical scholars have critiqued workplace health promotion (WHP) discourses for extending managerial influence on workers’ lives, shifting health responsibilities to workers, and disregarding occupational health and safety (OHS) and other structural issues. This essay promotes a worker-centered framework for workplace health, featuring (1) the holistic integration of WHP, OHS, and wellness as well as economic, environmental, and consumer health, (2) substantive worker voice, and (3) structural mechanisms to support worker interests. A case study of five Equitable Food Initiative (EFI)-certified farms demonstrates how these features can be enacted in practice. EFI is a multi-stakeholder, third-party verification and consumer labeling initiative aimed at improving farm working conditions, promoting food safety and environmental stewardship, and boosting business outcomes. Although EFI was not designed as a traditional OHS or WHP initiative, the certified farms in this study model an integrated and participatory approach to employee well-being that also encompasses fenceline communities and consumers.

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以员工为中心的健康工作场所框架:通过《公平食品倡议》实施一种极为全面、参与性和结构性的模式

关键学者批评工作场所健康促进(WHP)话语扩大了管理对工人生活的影响，将健康责任转移到工人身上，忽视了职业健康与安全(OHS)和其他结构性问题。本文提出了一个以工人为中心的工作场所健康框架，其特点是:(1)WHP、OHS、健康以及经济、环境和消费者健康的整体整合;(2)实质性的工人声音;(3)支持工人利益的结构性机制。五个公平食品倡议(EFI)认证的农场的案例研究展示了这些特征如何在实践中实施。EFI是一个多方利益相关者、第三方验证和消费者标签倡议，旨在改善农场工作条件，促进食品安全和环境管理，并促进商业成果。虽然EFI不是作为传统的职业健康安全或WHP倡议而设计的，但本研究中获得认证的农场采用了一种综合和参与式的员工福利方法，也包括围栏社区和消费者。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Applied Communication Research publishes original scholarship that addresses or challenges the relation between theory and practice in understanding communication in applied contexts. All theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome, as are all contextual areas. Original research studies should apply existing theory and research to practical solutions, problems, and practices should illuminate how embodied activities inform and reform existing theory or should contribute to theory development. Research articles should offer critical summaries of theory or research and demonstrate ways in which the critique can be used to explain, improve or understand communication practices or process in a specific context.