Marriage

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Marriage Family WellnessCorporate Americas
Business?
Julie Baumgardner, CFLE Jeff Fray, Ph.D. Diana
Leigh, Ph.D Matthew Turvey, Psy.D.
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Executive Summary

• Building Marriage Family Wellness Improves a
  Companys overall Financial Health.
• Marriage Family Wellness should be an
  Economically-driven Priority.

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The Value Proposition

• Two Major Conclusions from Research

Happily married employees increase profitability
Unhappily married employees decrease profitability
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Relational Pathway to Decreased Profits
Problematic Personal Relationships
Work-Life Conflict
Increased Life Stress
Poor Health/Increased Healthcare Costs
Negative Work Environment
Decreased Profit Productivity
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The Value PropositionCosts of Divorce
Marital Problems

• Financial Impact Summary
• Each divorce costs society about 25,000-30,000
• Stress related issues cost Corporate America 300
  billion annually
• New research indicates divorce costs taxpayers an
  estimated 112 billion in federal and state
  expenditures annually

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Relational Pathway to Increased Profits
Healthy Personal Relationships
Work-Life Balance
Mastery of Life Stress
Better Health/Lower Healthcare Costs
Positive Work Environment
Increased Profit Productivity
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The Value PropositionMarriage Family Wellness
Company Benefits

• Happily married couples are more loyal and stable
  employees
• Reduced job turnover
• Lower rates of absenteeism
• More dependable and motivated
• Greater levels of retention
• Happily married employees are healthier
• Immune system functioning is improved for happily
  married couples

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The Value PropositionMarriage Family Wellness
Company Benefits

• Prevention programs are a great investment
• ROI Studies have attributed up to 6.85 for every
  1.00 invested in employee wellness programs
• Happily married couples increase company profits
• More productive work environment results in a
  healthier, more productive, and lower liabilities

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2007 Survey Data

• Online survey created and distributed to HR
  managers and executives.
• Assess attitudes toward relational wellness
• Catalog best practices

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2007 Survey Data

• Respondents
• Represented over 500,000 employees across
  industry sectors
• Average salary
• 38,400 (non-managerial)
• 71,300 (managerial)

• Real estate
• Government Trade
• Non-profit
• Human Resources
• Advertising Marketing
• Retail Services
• Transportation Logistics
• Food Beverages
• Consumer Services
• Financial Services
• Other

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The Value PropositionCosts of Divorce Company
Example with 10 Divorces/year
Pay rates
10 hours/week lost (at 75)
1 hour/week/employee lost
1 hour/week lost
2.5 hours/week lost
10 minutes/week/employee lost
15 minutes/week lost
Total Cost of Divorce per Employee
Divorces per year
Total Cost to your Organization
Appendix B, page 24-26
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2007 Survey Data

• Of over 500,000 employees across numerous
  industry sectors in the the past year

Each divorce costs 7,962.11
These companies experienced 25,000 divorces
last year
X
These companies lost 199,052,750

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2007 Survey Data
Survey Statement Agree/Strongly Agree
100 86

• We would be willing to consider Relational
  Wellness programs for our workplace.
• My organization cares about the Relational
  Wellness of our employees.

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2007 Survey Data
Survey Statement Agree/Strongly Agree
36 41 36 27

• We have a formalized program to handle issues
  related to Relational Wellness.
• Current employees are retained because of our
  Relational Wellness programs.
• Our company offers Relational Wellness programs
  because it helps our bottom line.
• New employees are drawn to this organization
  because of our focus on Relational Wellness.

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2007 Survey Data

• Executive Summary of survey can be found at
• www.prepare-enrich.com/research.html
• Cost of divorce formula can be found at
• www.prepare-enrich.com/divorceformula.html

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What can Your Company do to Promote Marriage
Family Wellness?

• Connect Practice with Policy
• Know your companys relational starting point via
  valid relationship assessment tools
• Offer marriage and relationship education to
  increase overall relational wellness
• Offer relational coaching through your existing
  EAP structure

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Marriage Family WellnessThe Corporate So
What

• It is economically smart to make marriage and
  divorce your businessthe research and results
  show the positive economic impact it will yield
  in your company and organization.

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Marriage Family Wellness Corporate Americas
Business?

• To download the Research Report
• www.marriagecomission.com
• or
• http//www.prepare-enrich.com/
• download/Corporate_America_Business.pdf
• Can also order additional hard copies through
  PREPARE-ENRICH offices.
• [phone]

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• GOALS
• Identify and build coping resources.
• Learn how to better manage stress.
• Be proactive rather than reactive to stress.

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Coping Stress Profile
Model The profile measures the respondents
personal and work stress level, coping resources,
and level of personal and work satisfaction.
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• EssentialDisciplines for Business
• Developer Dr. Stephen Judah
• Dr. Diana Leigh
• Healthy Marriage Collaboration of
• Central Ohio

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• The Mission of Essential Disciplines for Business
  is to develop a people-skills system which
  explores and generates...
• personal growth
• relationship transformation and
• culture change
• resulting in...increased business productivity!

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• Select Train Assist Optimize
• These four services make up an integrated and
  comprehensive program. As a business owner, you
  need services for Employee...
• o Selection and Retention
• o Training
• o Assistance
• o Optimization

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EssentialDisciplines Business Tools

• Reiss Relationship Profile (RRP)
• Reiss Business Motivation Profile (RBMP)
• EssentialDisciplines Business Culture Survey
  (EDBCS)

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Need More Information?

• Websites
• http//www.bbbfoundation.org/
• EssentialDisciplines.com
• Consultation
• Dr. Diana Leigh
• Healthy Marriage Collaboration of Central Ohio
• Office [phone]
• Cell [phone]

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Relational Wellness Model
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Marriage Family WellnessCorporate Americas
Business?
Thank you.