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Mental health toolkit for employers
- Author:
- BUSINESS IN THE COMMUNITY
- Publisher:
- Business in the Community
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 68
- Place of publication:
- London
A toolkit on how to tackle mental ill health and promote wellbeing in the workplace. Mental health is an integral part of how people feel about their jobs, how well they perform and how well they interact with colleagues, customers and clients. With 1 in 6 employees currently experiencing mental health problems, mental health is an essential business concern. This resource sets out a step by step action plan, focusing on: making a commitment; building an approach through workplace policies and plans; promoting a positive culture; providing support and training; managing mental health and ending stigma; providing the right support; helping people recover; and regularly evaluating the organisation’s approach to mental health. The toolkit includes a number of case studies providing examples of good practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental health at work report 2016: national employee mental wellbeing survey findings 2016
- Author:
- BUSINESS IN THE COMMUNITY
- Publisher:
- Business in the Community
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 48
- Place of publication:
- London
Report on the findings from two surveys which explore mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, with a focus on the role of the line manager. The primary focus is on a survey of 3,036 full and part-time employees in the UK representative of gender, age, industry sector, region and business size, excluding sole traders. It also highlights additional data drawn from a parallel public open survey of 16,246 responses. The findings discuss the level of mental health issues reported, the disconnect between what the organisations believe is taking place to support their employees and what employees experience, the culture of silence that exists around mental health issues, the role of line managers, and policies to support employees. The results found that 77% say they have experienced symptoms of poor mental health at some point in their lives, with 62 per cent attributing their symptoms of poor mental health to work or felt that work was a contributing factor. Although 76 per cent of line managers believe they are responsible for employee wellbeing, only 22 per cent said they had received training. The report makes a number of recommendations and a call to action for employers to: talk about mental health, invest in training for all employees, and to take action to improve support for employees. (Edited publisher abstract)