JOIN THE PVAF GLOBAL VOLUNTEER TEAM....& REMOVE LIFE BARRIERS OF YOUR WORK PLACE WHICH MAKES YOU WORK, WORK & WORK....SAYS RESEARCH
Posted by Ashram News Reporter on December 8, 2005

puruSHaaARth = OBJECTIVES IN A HUMAN LIFE-TIME
WHICH GIVES PURPOSE TO LIVE LIFE A BALANCED LIFE WITH
NATURE'S RULES, REGULATIONS AND LAWS
(click here to understand the above on veD page on this PVAF web site)

FOCUS OF ONLY  CREATING WEALTH PROSPERITY THROUGH EMPLOYMENT
CAN CREATE
LIFE BARRIERS OF
METAL AND SPIRITUAL DISEASES
LEADING TO 
POVERTY OF HEALTH..
MEANING ALL 4 puruSHaaARth
OF LIFE
ARE NOT BALANCED IN DAILY LIFE

 
 A WHILE BACK EMPLOYERS MADE THE WORKPLACE SAFE FROM PHYSICAL INJURY
AND NOW THE SAFETY ISSUE IS
MENTAL HEALTH OF WORKERS.....

Latest research shows the following factors created by employers at a work place which creates mental health diseases and life injury:

  • Relentless treadmill effect of work, work and more work beyond regulation hours and meeting impossible deadlines with inadequate support systems and inadequate resources;
     

  • Inadequate continual education for creating and maintaining proficiency and efficiency of one's job description;
     

  • Work, work and work demanded by employers disregarding employee's other life needs, obligations and duties such as
     

    • life needs of personal, spousal and children in nuclear family,

    • obligations to extended family of parents, siblings and relatives and  friends,

    • obligations to community volunteering;

    • participation in politics as a good citizen,

    • recharging with recreational and physical health activities;

    • balancing emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs and growth for a wholesome lifestyle;
       

  • Uncertainty about job security;
     

  • Management practices which isolate people from information conducive and necessary for team work and corporate loyalty;
     

  • Inadequate inculcation of corporate vision in tandem with personal vision of life growth and mutual employer-employee benefits thereof.

The above negatively affects the employer, employee, employee's family, community and ultimately the nation....This has been already acknowledged in Japan, the second largest industrial power in the world and also in growing industrial base of India and China....

New research in Canada is now aimed at providing means and methodology at averting creation of adverse mental health environment at a work place....

Please click on the line at the bottom of this box to read the research on the subject matter....
 

Prajaapati Vishva Aashram Foundation (PVAF)
is A Non-Profit, Volunteer Driven,
Borderless, World-Wide, Timeless
Community Platform
For
EDUCATION OF HUMANITY TO REMOVE POVERTY

PVAF has started to carry out its mandate
 starting from its inception in 1996
by its first
EDUCATION TO REMOVE POVERTY PROGRAM
FOR
GUJARAAT STATE IN INDIA

Since 1999 PVAF has found donors
to finance 
7 students from very poor families
to get their 4-year university degree
to get well-paying jobs in
the current employment markets...
prayfully these educated students will eliminate generational poverty in their families...
generational poverty suffered
only due to lack of employable education

Part of the PVAF's
EDUCATION TO REMOVE POVERTY PROGRAM

offers life-coaching
for study planning an life planning to the students and his/her parents and siblings..
This ensures that all the members of the family will have EDUCATION TO REMOVE POVERTY...

POVERTY also includes all LIFE BARRIERS that cause poverty....such as
LIFE BARRIERS of
physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual types....

PVAF is developing programs to
REMOVE LIFE BARRIERS CAUSING POVERTY....

JOIN THE PVAF VOLUNTEER
DEVELOPMENT TEAM
IF YOU ARE BLESSED WITH
EDUCATION AND LIFE EXPERIENCES
TO REMOVE
LIFE BARRIERS CAUSING POVERTY...

YOUR ROLE WILL BE TO
HELP THOSE WHO WISH TO
HELP THEMSELVES
TO REMOVE LIFE BARRIERS OF POVERTY

FOR INFORMATION PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO:
 PVAF VOLUNTEER
(by clicking on the red hilite)

The above life knowledge is shared by SRii Champaklal Dajibhai Mistry from his veD study and also participation in life-coaching as part of his professional life activities in his daily work life as a professional engineer and project manager and volunteering for non-profit community and professional organizations trying to make TOMORROW HAPPIER THAN TODAY..... 

 



Business's next challenge:
tackling mental health in the workplace

Canadian Globe and Mail: By VIRGINIA GALT, WORKPLACE REPORTER: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Page B1

Mental health problems, such as stress and depression, have reached such crisis proportions in the workplace that a coalition of senior business leaders will announce its backing tomorrow for comprehensive research aimed at creating healthier work environments.

With mental disability now accounting for an estimated 30 to 40 per cent of the disability claims being recorded by Canada's major insurers and employers, the Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health is poised to announce two major research initiatives aimed at identifying management practices that lead to -- or exacerbate -- depression and mental illness among employees.

Employers have "beaten the safety problem" to a large extent, said former federal finance minister Michael Wilson, who has recently been appointed by the federal government in Ottawa to act as a special adviser on mental health.

But there is far less understanding -- or action -- on mental health issues, which can be aggravated by working conditions or a reluctance of employees to seek help, Mr. Wilson said.

Mr. Wilson, president and chief executive officer of Toronto-based UBS Global Asset Management (Canada) Co., lost his 29-year-old son, Cameron, to suicide in 1995.

Employers are becoming increasingly aware of the rising costs of disability claims from employees suffering from stress and depression, Mr. Wilson said.

Far less is known about the cost of lost productivity by employees who continue to work while suffering from these conditions.

A study to be led by the Harvard Medical School will survey more than 100,000 Canadian employees to document the cost benefits of early and effective treatment of depression in the labour force, particularly among men and women in their prime working years, Mr. Wilson said.

In a second major research initiative, to be announced tomorrow, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research will embark this summer on 10 years of applied research on mental health in the workplace.


 

Bill Wilkerson, chief executive officer of the business and economic roundtable, said yesterday his organization will help raise money for the research projects and will enlist employers to volunteer their workplaces "as laboratories for the research." One of the goals is to "eliminate the most egregious forms of chronic job stress at source," he said.

Uncertainty about job security, "management practices which isolate people from information [and] the relentless treadmill effect at work" all contribute to soaring stress loads, he said.

Rémi Quirion, who will co-ordinate the research at the CIHR, a national public research agency, said he hopes one outcome of the project will be to reduce the stigma still associated with mental illness. "Mental illness is more of an issue than back pain, for example. People are suffering from burnout, but it's not properly recognized because of stigma; employees are afraid to talk about it for fear of losing their job."

Yet, added Mr. Wilson, there can be "tragic consequences" when people are afraid to seek treatment or ask their employers and co-workers for help. He related in a recent interview that his son did not want his battle with depression widely known because he was afraid it would affect his employment prospects.

Dr. Quirion said employers are more willing than they were in the past to help employees suffering from stress and depression, "but there is still very little in the way of best practices."

The scope of the research will be announced this summer, said Dr. Quirion, who said he would like to see studies on people who thrive under pressure as well as on those who are struggling. He agreed with Mr. Wilkerson that young working adults are the most vulnerable to stress and depression.

"As a young person, you want to move ahead in your work. You work hard to show that you have the ability for it, that you are productive, that you are dynamic, that you have new ideas," Dr. Quirion said.

Business could be doing more to help, Mr. Wilson said.

"One of the dreams that I have is that we replicate with mental illness what has [successfully] been done with safety in the workplace

 

 



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