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Employee Health Management (EHM) reports to the Senior Vice President, Human Resources who is a member of the Corporate Executive Team. There is a close working relationship with Corporate Environment, Health and Safety (CEHS) and the two groups are connected organisationally: the EHM Global Operations group within EHM reports on a dotted line to the Vice President of CEHS. The two groups collaborate extensively in many areas including audits; management of health risks such as ergonomics and chemical agent exposures; product stewardship; injury and illness reporting; and EHS and employee health competency building.

Employee Health Management is structured as a shared service within the US and UK and as an above site, global function.

There are five key teams:

The EHM Global Operations team develops employee health-related policies, standards, guidance and tools and reviews their implementation through audits conducted in collaboration with CEHS. The team supports GlaxoSmithKline sites around the world to achieve company standards, protect the health of employees and optimise health-related productivity. It recruits, coaches and trains a global network of employee health professionals; it develops and implements best practice programmes and initiatives. In partnership with CEHS, the team collects, validates, analyses and reports employee health data from all operations to facilitate evidence-based decision-making. Additional global support is provided on an as needs basis.

The two EHM Shared Service teams (one in the US and one in the UK) work with management, with corporate and site environment, health and safety professionals and with human resources professionals to manage health risks associated with business activities in the US and UK. They maximise employee productivity by protecting and restoring health and by minimising health-related absence from work. They work in partnership with the Benefits department to offer programmes and benefits to enhance health and with the Organisational Development department to support organisational productivity by promoting resilience and advising managers when health has impacts on employee performance.

Leadership Health and Sustainability is committed to developing leaders who are healthy, resilient and able to lead confidently through times of significant change.  Commited to focusing on continuous development of physical and psychological wellbeing, leaders are able to call upon their best strengths, stamina, judgment and personal effectiveness to lead the organisation.

The Resilience strategy for GSK focuses on building the resilience of individuals and of  teams within the organisation so that GSK people can be the best they can, personally and professionally, now and in the future.

Planning Effectiveness and Productivity (PEP), is a nested shared service within EHM that works in partnership with the EHM Executive and Regional Service Delivery Teams to provide products and services to enable the collection and transformation of data into knowledge which enables effective behavioural change. PEP informs and facilitates strategy development and alignment.  PEP provides expertise in the area of  Balanced Scorecard methodology and global information management.