EAGER: Understanding How Employees Discover and React to Health and Wellbeing Benefits

EAGER：了解员工如何发现健康和福祉福利并做出反应

• 批准号: 2332805
• 负责人: Keaton Fletcher
• 金额: $ 29.97万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2023-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2332805&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Understanding; How; Employees; Discover

Organizations in the United States spend nearly a trillion dollars per year to provide employees with access to health and wellbeing benefits, yet many employees are unaware of, or do not understand, what health and wellbeing benefits they have access to. This lack of awareness and understanding reduces benefit use, reduces the positive impact of benefits on employees’ health and wellbeing, and limits the useful of benefits as signals that employers support their employees. This project explores how and when employees discover and react to the health and wellbeing benefits their organizations offer, including the role of technology in this process. This project directly and positively impacts the overall health and wellbeing of the workforce by creating clear suggestions on how organizations can better foster employees’ understanding of their health and wellbeing benefits.This project lays the groundwork for understanding the role of the employee as an active agent in searching for information regarding their health and wellbeing benefits. The study includes two waves. The first wave is a quantitative survey, using a stratified random sample of participants from the four most populated states. Questions capture what health and wellbeing benefits employees are aware of their organizations providing, as well as how, when, and from whom they became aware of these benefits, and perceptions of organizational support. The second wave is a qualitative study in which a subset of participants from Wave 1 are interviewed and asked to provide benefit communication artifacts from their organization. This approach allows for deep dive into the process of becoming aware of one’s health and wellbeing benefits, including the role of cyberinfrastructure. Overall, this project has the potential for novel theoretical and practical insights regarding benefit awareness and communication.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

美国的组织每年花费将近一万亿美元，以使员工获得健康和福祉的福利，但是许多员工不知道或不了解他们可以使用的健康和福祉。这种缺乏意识和理解减少了利益的使用，减少了福利对员工健康和福祉的积极影响，并将福利的用途限制为雇主支持其雇员的信号。该项目探讨了员工如何以及何时对组织提供的健康和福祉有利，包括技术在此过程中的作用。该项目直接和积极地影响了劳动力的整体健康和福祉，通过就组织如何更好地培养员工对健康和福祉的理解提出明确的建议。该项目为理解员工作为积极代理人在寻找有关其健康和健康福利的信息方面的作用奠定了基础。该研究包括两个波。第一波是定量调查，使用来自人口最多的四个状态的参与者的分层随机样本。问题抓住了哪些健康和福祉使员工意识到其组织提供的组织以及他们如何，何时以及从谁开始意识到这些好处以及对组织支持的看法。第二波是一项定性研究，在该研究中，采访了第一波参与者的一部分，并要求提供其组织的福利沟通伪像。这种方法可以深入了解了解一个人的健康和福祉的好处，包括网络基础设施的作用。总体而言，该项目具有有关利益意识和沟通的新理论和实用见解的潜力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准评估来诚实地获得支持。