Implementation of Health and Productivity Management System and its Effects on Human Resource Management

Abstract

Health and productivity management is a method of strategic of employees' healthcare to achieve greater wellbeing and improve performance. The research focuses on the implementation of health and productivity management system in Japan and its effects on Human Resource Management from the insurer's viewpoint. The health insurer reviewed in the study provides medical insurance to employees in small enterprises. The insurer promotes health and productivity management aimed at reducing medical costs and claims. This ultimately has a positive effect on insurance premiums when insurers pass on the benefits to small enterprises. This research revealed that a collaborative approach between insurers and enterprises may be beneficial for promoting employees' healthcare in small enterprises. The study demonstrates that when the management is better aware of healthcare, Human Resource Management is effective and can have a positive impact on productivity.

The study and the medical insurance considered are limited to Hiroshima Prefecture's situation. It does not consider the actual cases of health and productivity management in small enterprises in the main paper under limitations. This leaves many challenges for the future.