Why care about care: many British companies, which are trying to cope with the complicated and costly issue of stress at work, are buying employee assistance and workplace counselling programmes without ensuring that the programmes identify sources of stress within the organisation

Article Abstract:

There has been much interest in Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) and a study of EAP provision has been undertaken by the Manchester School of Management at UMIST, funded by the Health and Safety Executive. They key activities of EAPs were seen as being promotion of the EAP, the provision of counselling, advice to managers and feedback to the client organisation. More than half of organisations felt there was a lack of independent advice about workplace counselling, and just 30% of companies undertook a stress audit before choosing a counselling service. It was found that some counsellors held no formal counselling qualifications. There is a need for counselling programmes at work to address personal as well as workplace needs to be successful.

Surveys, Employee assistance programs

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Workplace accidents and ill health cost society 30bn pounds sterling

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The health and safety at work failures cost individuals 10.1-14.7 billion pounds sterling each year, the economy 13.1-22.2 billion pounds sterling, and the society as whole 20-31.8 billion pounds sterling. The Revitalizing Health and Safety initiative aims to achieve national improvement targets by the year 2010, reducing the incidence of working days lost from ill health by 30%, employees suffering from work-related ill health by 20% and the rate of fatal and major injury accidents by 10%.

United States, Public affairs, Social aspects, Economic aspects, Workplace accidents, Sick leave

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Employee's legal right to privacy to ease workplace stress

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Intrusive monitoring of employees can have a detrimental affect on morale and stress, according to a report by organisations protecting the rights of workers to privacy in the workplace. Many surveillance techniques are necessary and can save lifes, such as drug testing. However, workers unions point to monitoring of worker's performance down to minute detail as being unproductive and ultimately bad for the health of the employee.

Research, Privacy, Right of, Right of privacy, Electronic employee monitoring, Employee rights

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