ZIPHO SIKHAKHANE: Health and happiness help profits
Take a holistic approach to company goals
The economic environment has been putting pressure on growth targets and the feasibility of meeting original projections. Organisations often respond with massive restructuring and retrenchment exercises to help the bottom line. The exercises are usually technical, completely ignoring the human side of the process, which often undermines the very financial performance that the whole exercise was intended to revive. People often become anxious or panic, but this can be mitigated if companies give as much thought to maintaining organisational health as they do to maintaining financial health. I am noticing an increasing number of requests for assistance from companies that failed to take the mental wellbeing of staff into account during the design of a restructure; many executives only wake up to the effects on the organisation's health when the process is already well advanced. Maintaining a healthy organisation, especially during times of massive change, can go a long way towards cr...
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