Risk Profile Analysis Tool: Software for Identifying Workplace Stressors (12004)
- Detailed Technology Description
- A tool for identifying the relative risk of excess worker stress inorganizational units by using aggregated individual data on medicalclaims.
- *Abstract
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Risk Profile Analysis Tool (12004)
Highlights
- Innovative and dependable research identifying departments in anorganization with excess workplace stress;
- Risk Profile Analysis provides the basis for a more comprehensive approach to organizational health that both identifies sources of stress and helps individuals improve their health;
- Analysis applicable to determine how productive your workplace environment is and methods to improve upon it.
*This Technology is available for licensing, further development, or industrial partnering*
CONTACT: thinker@louisville.edu / 502.852.2965 / Attn.: RDF#12004
Technology
With risinghealth care costs and increasing reliance on wellness programs that focusexclusively on individual-level interventions, human resource divisions use questionnairesto investigate the health, happiness and stress levels of their workers. Thesequestionnaires are vague and general, and as a result, aren’t very helpful.
To fill this market need, researchers at the University of Louisvillehave developed Risk Profile Analysis (RPA), a tool for inferring the relativerisk of excess stress in organizational units by using aggregated individualdata on medical claims.
Current questionnaires provide little, if any, data sufficient toidentify specific departments within an organization that are creating excessworkplace stress that undermines individual health and engagement and reducethe chances of sustained productivity.
RPA moves beyond individual approaches to actively identify workplacefactors that are causing excess stress.
Research indicates that making workplaces less stressful would saveorganizations millions of dollars while helping to make them more competitive.
An RPA-based approach is intended to complement individual-levelwellness efforts in an integrated package that has implications both forindividual health and engagement and organizational health.
Workplaces that change the stressfulness of work environments and alsohelp individuals to develop and sustain positive lifestyle habits should resultin greater organizational health.
Organizational health is linked to productivity,adaptability, creativity and long-term competitive advantage
Technology Status
- Development Status: Proof of Concept Established
- Fields of Use Available: All
Inventors:
- David W. Britt,Ph.D.
- Patricia Benson,M.Ed
- Brad Shuck, EdD.
- Country/Region
- USA
