ABSTRACT
Stating that physical exercise is related to improved health is hardly provocative. However, when it comes to implementing physical exercise at work, organizations are often hesitant to do so. This may follow from the scarcity of research linking health promoting interventions at work to organizational outputs such as productivity (Miller and Haslam 2009). This chapter aims to provide a research based framework for physical exercise interventions at work, present a case study of physical exercise in dentistry and outline a conceptual model specifying mechanisms linking the more well-known effects of physical exercise on individual outcomes to organizational outcomes. Specifically, the case is used to illustrate how physical exercise can influence productivity and organizational costs related to sickness absence.
