In message <[log in to unmask]>, Peter Fox
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>>The other area I am seriously looking at came after a chance meeting
>>with a high powered headhunter (no, it was not my head that was being
>>hunted!).
>>
>>She said that many international companies operating in the City have a
>>'mentoring' service as part of the job perks.
>>
>>That means that the highly stressed executive (it applies to the top
>>flight of managers and directors, btw) has access to his or her
>>personal mentor. The use this service rather than risking all the
>>fallout of one of their people flipping or having to call the shrinks
>>in. A kind of a highly personalised safety valve. It costs *a lot*
>>
>
>With the advent of PCGs there will be a larger market for this service,
>all the poor GPs on the PCG boards.
>
>The NHS should pay as well.
Getting slightly confused.
Is the sugestion that the service allows immediate access to personal
mentors?
If so, what about the mentors?
Do *they* need support as well?
If you know that the service costs *a lot*, would *you* be happy to be
told "sorry, talking to someone else - not on call - on holiday - any
other good reason for not being available at the time of need" ?
In our case, the NHS is the employer - and if there is a problem with
recruitment, retention, early health retirement, abnormal levels of
absenteeism etc, then , if the employer has *any* management competence
;->>, the problem needs to be regarded as a workplace problem which
needs to be addressed by the employer.
It is irrelevant whether the employer is the State , a quango or in the
private sector
Mary
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