Workplace Health Promotion Initiatives (WHPI) in the Management of Financial Stress among Teachers

Abstract

This paper focused on workplace health promotion initiatives in the management of financial stress among employees, It saw health promotion initiatives as any programme that aims to improve the health of employees and their families while reducing the health related costs and compensations by any employer. Workplace health promotions are the combined efforts employed by employees and society to improve the health and wellbeing of people at work. This paper also discussed stress, financial stress, role of employer to support WHPI. Such health promotion initiatives for management of stress among employees such as supportive initiative, encouraging aerobic exercise initiative, incentive initiative financial wellbeing programme initiative and forming cooperative initiative were discussed. The paper concluded that actions in the workplace health promotion and financial wellness must be taken to bail out Nigerian workers from increasingly financial stress. It was recommended that employers should organize seminar/workshops for workers on how to manage their financial stress by doing extra job to augment their salaries like farming and local monthly contribution to help them save part of their income for the rainy day.