Mental Health Promotion in Healthcare Organizations

Running head: MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION
MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION
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The health care industry is constantly in a state of turmoil by subjecting health care
workers to work for prolong hours and under poor organizational culture. It is important to
adopt measures in order to promote mental health in a healthcare organization pertaining to
workplace bullying and poor organizational structure that makes the professionals extremely
irritated and leads to a development of aversion towards their job role. A profession in
medicine have been considered to be the most novel profession all over the world, however it
must be noted that globally the medical professionals have complained against poor
organizational structure and excessive work load (AbuAlRub,2014). In context of the case
study, nurses in general are loaded with familial responsibilities and at the same time are
exposed to work place bullying by their superior boss who openly practice unprofessional
behaviour towards them by developing a hostile attitude towards them which in itself is so
evident that the professionals can feel the cold vibes which slows down their professional
progress.
Research studies reveal that, a hostile attitude maintained by the superiors towards
the sub-ordinates leads to creation of mental stress that is accountable for degrading the
performance output of an employee by as much as 25% (Baicker et al.,2013). Hostile
behaviour can be of many types, it can either be an adoption of a partial behaviour by the
superior to other candidates or constantly humiliating an employee for minute faults (Barry et
al.,2013). It is important to consider the fact that an employee has a background which is
most of the times unknown to the superior and a supervisor is appointed to monitor the
working and the progress of the employee, and encourage learning throughout. In case of
finding faults, it is the foremost role of the supervisor to guide the employee and not put up a
holistic approach towards the employee that would make it insulting and depressing for him,
so much so that the employee might just walk away, not wanting to work in the organization

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any more (Bolier et al.,2014). This problem also highlights the high number of employee
turnover in the nursing profession.
In order to deal with the severity of the situation, nurses can possibly resort to two
approaches, the first being filing a complaint to the higher authorities about the constant
bullying at the work place and the inappropriate behaviour being put up by superiors against
them. Lodging a complaint would provide the nurses under stress with a certain proportion of
relief that they have not tolerated but protested against something wrong that was constantly
happening to them and in hope of a strict action they would have been able to maintain a
positive and an optimistic approach towards work life (Czabala et al.,2014). Scientific studies
reveal that individuals who silently choose to suffer and do not raise a voice against
something wrong that has been happening to them, often end up pouring all the frustration
out on their loved ones, thereby hampering the relationship with their family members
(Goetzel,2014).
To maintain a decent level of existence is the crucial struggle that every individual has
been striving for. As a matter of fact, it is extremely difficult to sustain familial duties
appropriately after being subjected to a huge amount of stress in the work place area. It is a
common notion prevalent in the health care industry that the more shifts professionals work,
the more monetary benefit they acquire in order to cater to the needs of the family, but in
doing so, the nurses end up draining all his energy. Scientific studies reveal that excessive
physical exertion often leads to fatigue and weakness which in turn ruins the feelings of
happiness and positivity in a person (Lambert et al.,2014). At the same time, because of the
massive workload, the workers are unable to spend quality time with their family members,
only to sustain them and at this juncture if the family members end up misunderstanding the
physical exhaustion to be negligence and end up having serious dispute then eventually the
employer would feel even more demoralised. If there are children in the family, they feel