Thank
you so much to everyone who responded. I really appreciate it. Great advice as
always.
I
think that ‘perceived advocacy’ issue was a potential problem which we have
dealt with quite quickly. Unfortunately this is a self-referral which makes it
more difficult as she doesn’t want help from anyone outside of the company
either. The company doesn’t currently operate within the stress management
standards or even have a policy on Stress management and I think we need to
start pushing for this a little harder.
Thanks
again.
Paula
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Difficulties with HR
I think a
key issue here is how the employee came to you in the first place. Is it as a
result of a self or management referral and are you expected to feed back to
anyone?
If its a self referral then all the comments below useful,
in addition I would say that the company must have a grievance/mediation policy
that she should explore for management channels through which to take her
concerns. fact is that she needs to voice her concerns to someone other than OH
if a solution needs to be forthcoming. Perceived advocacy is something (in my
view, and I`m not saying that this is happening here) that should be avoided in
such situations to maintain the integrity and reputation of the OH
dept
If its as a result of a management referral and feedback from
OH required then its the usual recommendation for stress RA, and maybe mention
that "mediation or other management processes may be more useful than clinical
intervention at this present time" to take the case forward.
As we all know - only having one side of a story can be
misleading, it may well be that the manager in question has valid issues with
the employees performance and we all need to be very clear that we are not
"taking sides" as could lead to all sorts of difficulties in the future and may
even backfire
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I have
included the link for ACAS which could assist mediation
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Good afternoon lovely list. I would really value your opinion and advice. An HR
administrator is exhibiting some clinical symptoms associated with
stress/anxiety due to her relationship with her manager and expressed that
her manager is making her feel, undervalued, and making suggestions about
her competence and has gone as far as discussing capability with her. The
HR manager has a habit of making her staff very unhappy and they have
quite a high turnover. If what the administrator says is true it would
appear that the manager is trying to push her out. The HR manager answers directly to the
CEO. Anyway, my question is how would you advise the
administrator to deal with her issues? She isn’t in a union. Her colleague
isn’t supportive and her manager runs HR. She doesn’t want to go to the
CEO as it seems her manager has been telling him that she isn’t good
enough. I would prefer to deal with things in house but I need to make
sure that this woman is given the right advice and support. Paula This email
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