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: 2346233
• 负责人: Keaton Fletcher
• 金额: $ 29.97万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 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 2025-11-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2346233&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近万亿美元为员工提供健康和福利，但许多员工不知道或不了解他们可以获得哪些健康和福利。这种缺乏认识和理解的情况减少了福利的使用，减少了福利对雇员健康和福祉的积极影响，并限制了福利作为雇主支持雇员的信号的有用性。该项目探讨了员工如何以及何时发现并对组织提供的健康和福利做出反应，包括技术在这一过程中的作用。该项目通过就组织如何更好地促进员工对其健康和福祉福利的理解提出明确的建议，对员工的整体健康和福祉产生直接和积极的影响。该项目为理解员工在搜索有关其健康和福祉福利的信息时作为积极代理人的作用奠定了基础。该研究包括两个波。第一波是定量调查，使用来自四个人口最多的州的参与者的分层随机样本。问题捕捉哪些健康和福利福利员工知道他们的组织提供，以及如何，何时，从谁他们知道这些好处，以及组织支持的看法。第二波是一个定性研究，其中第一波参与者的一个子集接受采访，并要求提供他们组织的利益沟通工件。这种方法允许深入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的过程。总的来说，这个项目有可能在利益意识和沟通方面产生新的理论和实践见解。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。