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Employee Assistance Program  

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Employee Assistance Program At least one fifth of an organization's employees are suffering or will suffer from some degree of mental disorder.1 This fact is one that not many supervisors or managers believe or even know about. Management believes the idea that man is perfectible and has control of every aspect of his life including mental disorders. This belief is based on the idea that the only way to influence people to change their habits and attitudes is to show them through logic, the "error of their ways". If management is to minimize conflicts and costs related to mental illness, it must discard many of its false beliefs about human nature and except more realistic ones. Only in rare cases are the sufferers of mental illness aware that anything is wrong with them. It is an improbable idea that management can expect to confront the employee, explain the error of...

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