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ISSN No:-2456-2165
Abstract:- This descriptive study determined the extent level of wellness among individual employees, when
of wellness practices among the teaching and non- summed up describes the total organizational performance.
teaching employees of Bukidnon State University
during the second semester of school year 2018-2019. To help promote health and wellness among public
There were 333 randomly selected employee-participants employees in the Philippines, the government has enacted
who answered the adopted survey questionnaire on laws and mandates that required all public agencies to
wellness practices. The responses of the participants in implement regular wellness activities in their respective
the instrument and in the interview provided data on workplaces and to provide simple rules that encourage their
their practices in five dimensions of wellness, namely: employees to pursue a physically-active lifestyle at an
physical, intellectual, spiritual, social and emotional institutional level. The Civil Service Commission, for
dimensions. The participants also identified the example, had issued Memorandum Circular No. 8, s. 2011
challenges they have encountered in practicing which directed all heads of both national and local
wellness activities and some recommendations that government agencies, departments, corporations, and state
they think can help them address such challenges. colleges and universities to implement the physical fitness
Their responses were guided by a 5-point Likert scale program called “Great Filipino Workout.” To develop a
and the data gathered were treated using mean and healthy and alert workforce, the system of rules mandated
standard deviation. The results of the study revealed that all government offices to parcel out reasonable time for
the teaching and non-teaching employees of Bukidnon regular physical fitness program among their respective
State University always practiced spiritual and employees. Moreover, said memorandum pinpointed key
emotional wellness activities, often practiced activities persons in promoting and implementing the said program,
for social and intellectual wellness and sometime namely: health professionals, community health workers,
practiced physical activities. The employees of the health and sports coordinators, human resource officers, and
university also identified lack of interest and motivation, physical education teachers.
lack of time, and unstable body condition as their
challenges in practicing wellness activities. Teachers and non-teaching employees of state
universities were observed to be prone to stress; thus, they
I. INTRODUCTION need to engage in activities that promote overall wellness.
The demands of maintaining outstanding performance, plus
Attaining wellness in all dimensions is necessary for other concerns in the work environment and family, may
all people, specifically for employees. To be truly healthy, contribute to employees’ stress. The complexity and volume
employees need to possess a sound mind and body, stable of teaching or office tasks may cause university employees
emotional, positive social inclination, professional to neglect other dimensions of their wellbeing. Furthermore,
excellence, and spiritual maturity. Such conditions are said as observed, busy employees tend to have not enough time
to influence personal health, happiness, and productivity. to read intellectual and spiritual literature and may be
Hence, every employee needs to be aware of and makes too tired to join community activities on weekends. They,
choices towards a healthy and fulfilling life. likewise, appear to lose interest in engaging in other creative
projects for personal growth.
According to Bezner (2015), the status of health and
wellness among employees has a direct impact on their work There is, therefore, a felt need that a study on
performance as well as on the overall organizational wellness practices among the teaching and non-teaching
success. For regular employees who are working full- time, employees of Bukidnon State University be conducted to
that is eight hours a day, five days a week, self-care draw data that are useful in designing the most appropriate
practices may become both personal as well as professional wellness intervention plan. The said intervention plan, once
responsibilities. In other words, in providing services to institutionalized and implemented, is envisioned to raise
clienteles, every paid employee has an ethical obligation to employees’ level of personal wellness in all dimensions. The
attend to his or her health and well-being so as not to findings of this study may also be utilized as tangible
compromise the quality of services he/she is delivering. The evidence that will help convince the administration of the
Moreover, the present study was also supported by Fig 1:- The schematic diagram showing the parameters of
three memorandum circulars issued by the Philippine Civil the study.
Service Commission that required public agencies, including
state universities, to integrate wellness activities in their III. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
workplaces, namely: CSC M. C. no. 38 in 1992 (Physical
and Mental Wellness Program for Government Personnel), This study determined the wellness practices of
CSC M. teaching and non- teaching employees in Bukidnon State
University during the 2nd semester of school year 2018-
C. no. 6 in 1995 (The Great Filipino Workout), and 2019. Specifically, it answered the following questions:
CSC M. C. no.8 of 2011 (Reiteration of Physical Fitness
Program ‘Great Filipino Workout’). Said issuance required To what extent did the university employees practice
government employees to participate in organizational wellness activities in the following dimensions:
wellness and fitness programs,which aimed at inculcating Physical dimension;
among Filipino employees the importance of a healthy Intellectual dimension;
lifestyle as a strategy to reduce the level of the risk factors Spiritual dimension;
of heart diseases. Social dimension; and
Emotional dimension?
Figure 1 shows the conceptual framework of the study. What were the challenges that university employees
The first box of the diagram represents the different encountered in practicing wellness activities?
wellness practices of teachers and non-teaching employees What institutional intervention plan could be designed to
of Bukidnon State University that were categorized help university employees cope with the challenges they
according to five of Hettler’s (1976) and Swarbrick and experienced in practicing wellness activities?
Yudof’s (2015) dimensions of wellness, namely: physical,
intellectual, spiritual, social, and emotional. These are the IV. METHODOLOGY
dimensions of wellness that teachers and the rest of school
employees need to attain and sustain to be personally This chapter presents the methods and procedures used
motivated in life and become highly effective in their to gather and interpret data from the responses of the
respective work environment. Achieving holistic wellness is participants. It describes the research locale, the participants