企業の立場からみたメンタルヘルスの必要性とあり方(職場のメンタルヘルス)(第32回日本心身医学会総会)
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Companies deal with the mental health of employees because they need to invigorate the atmosphere of work places and preclude the decline of work forces. At present, there is a growing recognition of the need for mental health. What has aggravated this need is the fact that given the introduction of office automation, challenges of new undertakings, transfers unaccompanied by families, and other attendant family problems, individual employees are now under unprecedented levels of pressure, both mentally and physically. It is also a fact that resulting stresses are mounting, irrespective of the age, status or intensity level of stress. Resistance to stress varies from person to person, and there certainly is no universal cure. As the purpose of businesses is to seek profits, and as employees are part of this endeavor, it is the responsibility of companies to do everything possible to enhance individual employees' ability to adjust themselves to their work environment. For the question of mental health, therefore, our company's basic policy is to cover all employees and, gathering as much information as possible about individuals, deal with it in the process of overall personnel management. Necessarily, therefore, managers/supervisors should not only be responsible for mass management but also always place emphasis on supervising individuals, while giving due consideration to the varied backgrounds of individuals. In other words, one way of dealing with mental health is for managers/supervisors to act as the key persons for enhancing mental health in their respective places of work. Managers/supervisors must, first of all, see to it that their own mental health is good and then work out an organizational setup whereby persons needing attention are duly referred to the health care staffmembers for appropriate attention and care and also work out education/training programs for these staffmembers. Considering the growing complexity of the nature and substance of work, work environment, etc., the issue of mental health in business will be a permanent one. Our intention is to continue to increase our knowledge and information concerning mental health in our effort to find appropriate ways to deal with this problem.
- 日本心身医学会の論文
- 1992-04-01