by Brianna Crandall — July 30, 2012—The U.K.’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has launched a free stress management tool, developed with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), designed to help equip managers with the skills to manage positively and prevent stress in their staff.
CIPD research has identified stress as the number one cause of long-term sickness absence and poor management as one of the top causes of work-related stress, with obvious impacts on workplace atmosphere and productivity as well as the bottom line.
The tool, available on the CIPD/AXA PPP Employee Health and Wellbeing Web site, is designed to hold up a mirror to managers so they understand how their behavior impacts on the people they manage—and provides online learning materials to help them improve their management style.
The tool contains:
- Online resources for managers to help them manage their staff in ways that prevent and reduce stress within the team; and
- Learning materials to help HR practitioners to support managers to manage their staff in ways that prevent and reduce stress in their teams.
- Learning materials to help HR practitioners to support managers to manage their staff in ways that prevent and reduce stress in their teams.
