(Duration 2-day)

Introduction

Working culture has been always the subject of discussion when management sits. The issue of developing of good working culture has never cease to cause disappointment and frustration within the human resource department.

At this point where the nation is in the fast pace towards developing the ‘developed nation’ status, infrastructures and amenities are far fetch as people are trying to catch up. The conclusive evidence prevails has set the consensus statement: MALAYSIA IS MORE DEVELOPED THAN MALAYSIANS.

The country needs thinking people. Thinking people requires benchmark. Benchmarks are performance index and these are the guidelines that all corporate needs to set in the process of achieving their monthly to the yearly objectives on the goals set forth. Thinking employees needs to be developed through a process of good working culture. A good working cultures stems from a string of team work of cooperation and determination. The basis will not prevail if absenteeism rates are high.

If thinking staff has been developed from a process of good team building programs, good educational programs and a good leadership program, the unavoidable high rates of absenteeism prevails from genuine medical leaves.

Medical leave is legal and cannot be avoided. In the eyes of the management, there is no way to determine if such absenteeism is genuine. As mentioned, thinking employees will reduce such absenteeism. Epemidiologically, the high rates of medical leave has always been the stumbling block in the progression of any organisation and as such many corporations has taken steps to reduce the enormously high rates by signing up memberships to fitness clubs, gold resorts and many other programs for their employees so that they can stay fit and healthy.

Results has shown that fitness as per individuals is just 28-33% cause of the entire total medical cost but working hazards constitute close to 48% of the entire medical leave. The rest are paternal/maternal leave, compassionate leave and other miscellaneous that has been set in by and approved by each individual organisation. An organisation will bear the cost of:

1) The daily cost of the employee

2) The medical facilities required to treat the employees

3) The productivities of each employee

4) The negative effects of intra-departmental

5) The time that the organisation working with deadline not met

The above have cost millions of dollars of lost time and many other aspects which, cannot be quantified in terms of dollars and cents.

The Plan

What are the guidelines to ensure medical leaves to be reduced?

i) Fit and healthy employees

ii) Working hazards reduction

iii) Strong working cultures

iv) Ability to address STRESS

The program

This program has been designed for duration of 2 days and conducted in a classroom environment. It serves as an isolated educational program and participants should be housed in a conducive housing facilities and food to be designed with the objective of healthy eating lifestyle.

Practical will be conducted with sufficient training facilities.

The Course Module:

i) Fit and healthy employees – Syllabus headed by :

Dr. Lee Chee Pheng, Ph.D.

Board Member of The National Sports Council, Malaysia

Member of Technical Committee for Doha 2006, Asian Games, Malaysia

Board Member of The National Fitness Council, Malaysia

Member of the Licensing Board of National Fitness Council, Malaysia

Vice-Chair, International Scientific Committee for Strength Training, Jyvaskyla, Finland,

Research Member, The Human Biology Movement Laboratory, Semmelweis University, Faculty of Phy. Ed. And Sports Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

It will consist of:

a) Introduction to The Human Body

b) Physical Fitness and Body Fat Assessment

c) Addressing STRESS

ii) Working hazards reduction – This syllabus will be headed by:

Dr. V. Arvind,

Bachelors Degree in Complementary Medicine

Bachelor Degree in Physiotherapy Techniques

Post Graduate Doctorate in Complementary medicine.

Founder member of the Exercise Therapy Chapter

of the Malaysian Society of Complementary Therapies,

Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist

Member, Teaching Faculty, National Fitness Council, Malaysia.

It will cover the followings:

a) Understanding the hazardous working environment

b) How to prevent injuries at work place

c) The correct application of movements at work place

d) Specific exercises to strengthen postural muscles

e) Specific exercises to release cumulative muscular stress

f) Postural training

g) Biomechanics and safety aspects of physical movement

iii) Good working cultures – This syllabus will be headed by:

Dr. Lee Chee Pheng & Dr. V. Arvind

It covers the following topics:

a) Chess Games - To develop a thinking mind

b) Who are you? - Motivation brings out the aggressiveness of the basic human characters, which need to be carved towards the company’s vision and objectives. In the elementary aspect of being top in your field, it is important that the raw character of a person be abstracted to identify if they have the right mind set, it is a question of WHO ARE YOU?

c) Communications Skills – Does your colleagues always do not understand your instructions or are you giving the wrong instructions….How should one describe their instructions to others should be the key of communication rather than issuing an order.

Who Should Attend?

All staffs (regardless of age, gender or seniority) who want to have a healthy lifestyle and changing their perspective in life towards their working life.

Personalized Report

Participants will be given a personalized report on body fat and physical fitness assessment