It has been widely acknowledged off late, that staff retention in the UK has become an area of serious purview and discussion in the economic and business circles. It is indeed becoming ever more apparent that we, as individuals, are never a part of some loose knit society of a bygone era, but standing on a plain of concrete progressive thinking, where every voice is a civilized voice, to be...
We relate stress as those moments where you feel like everything has become too much to handle and everything seems to crumble at the slightest provocation.
Even though we all know what stress is do you know how best to control and manage your stress levels?
Stress can be explained as the feelings of inability to cope with a situation or circumstance. In many cases of stress the situation...
Stress Management is a relatively new phenomenon that was brought in for the purpose of preventing, managing and treating anxiety ridden illnesses among workers in a commercial establishment. Stress or anxiety has come into the limelight in the fast moving world of business where intense competition and the drive to achieve targets nearly wreaks havoc on a persons emotional and physical...
Stress management helps you to identify stress causing factors and provides you with skills to decrease the impact of stress on your professional and personal life. Stress can crop up due to innumerable factors and can be actually contributing to your business if maintained within healthy limits.
It can also motivate you as well as your colleagues and employees to become more creative and...
Staff absenteeism among the UK work force is the scourge of our times.
We all tend to believe that is our moral right to go on leave if the situation so demands. This is to a great extent true if one were to consider human values among employees and their rights on and off their duty times. In most cases job absenteeism, without prior intimation is made and converted into leave for records....
While many enterprises are concerned about the costs of such programs, they may not be aware that studies show an actual cost savings from creating a working employee assistance program.
One major positive result of an employee assistance program is a competitive advantage in the marketplace. A workforce that is enduring chronic stress is less manageable and less productive. Stress can...
Typically, such programs include referral services and short-term counselling for the employee (and possibly other members of their household) and are typically offered to employees free of charge.
A company interested in providing an employee assistance program will typically purchase a pre paid plan from a third party provider. Selecting The UK Employee Assistance Professionals...
Fortunately, turnover is on a declining trend in the UK, but this also means that enterprises must continue to find ways to retain staff to remain competitive in the marketplace.
Some employee turnover is positive. A company that is too conservative in staff retention will become uncompetitive because some employees cost more to retain than to terminate. For example, keeping poor...
Many people who are, in ordinary circumstances, excellent workers may encounter a period in their lives where they struggle with the responsibilities of their work and their outside lives.
Without assistance, such employees may end up being terminated or leaving the job voluntarily, costing the enterprise in recruiting, hiring, and training costs. Any organisation can benefit from an...
The cost for UK industry is staggering 11.5 billion was paid in wages to absent employees, or paid for temporary staff or overtime for absent employees, in 2002.
There are many ways of preventing absenteeism. Of the forty million days each year lost to absenteeism, over thirteen million are caused by common mental health issues, including stress, anxiety and depression. While not all...
