Driving positive mental health should be the responsibility of every manager in a company, not just the HR department. This includes initiatives like offering additional consultation and managerial support to those who need it and regularly reaching out to employees to boost their morale.
Employee Mental Wellness
Organizations can drive positive mental wellbeing by treating symptoms and by going after the root cause. Both prove to be equally important. Organizations should use MENTAL strategy to drive positive mental wellbeing.
Our usual response to crisis is binary. We usually respond with either fear or acceptance. However this either or lens makes us at worst fragile and at best resilient – both adequate in most situations. The human race seeks more – to feel better, enhance our wellbeing and augment or productivity...
As HR our actions are oriented towards helping employees and are not merely a lip-service exercise. We cannot reassure one side and do something contradictory on the other side which brings trust deficit between employees & management.
