Hi all
I am writing an assignment on "Corporate strategy" for my certificate in management and have decided to look at how businesses use OH.
My gut feeling is that businesses/hospital trusts do not have a clear strategy for OH when they engage their services, but do it for a variety of reasons, health surveillance, sickness absence, health promotion, back care, training, vaccination, "always had it" etc. This wide remit then leads to the OH dept providing a broad range of services, rather than focusing and contributing to clear business strategies. Something my literature refers to as "strategic drift" - in that OH provide too broad a service to be able to measurably and effectively contribute to corporate strategy.
I may be wrong.... but I have decided to start with this hypothesis!
I would be very interested in others people views, especially if you have already looked at this within your business/trust.
Any pointers towards relevant studies/literature would also be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance for any feedback.
David
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