Mental Health in the Workplace

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Introduction
The study discusses on the mental health wellness program offered by major organisations in
Canada. One amongst these organisations is Lund beck Canada that is a mental health
organisation, Rodale is a publishing house that promotes health awareness program for their
employees. Based on this organisation in Canada the study illustrates the various kind of
program such as health campaigns, gym facilities and entertainment programs to reduce work
pressure in workplace while promoting effective mental health.
Part 1:
1. The mental health wellness program of Canada offers the following understanding of
mental health that usually serves as the objective of the employers. As stated by Kelloway
(2017), mental health is that present state of an individual when they recognise their
individual potential and they understand that they will be able to work with the normal
stresses of life in contribution to their workplace. In this aspect, the major components of
mental health wellbeing program in the workplace are occupational health and protection
within the physical working environment. The second component is the psychosocial
working environment present within the culture of the organisation and the workplace of
work. The third component is the promotion of workplace health and the last component is
the organisational engagement of community (Cullen et al., 2017).
2. The major component found in the Lund beck Canada that is associated with
Canadian Mental health association is that the workforce of the Mental health division
grouped up to take a better understanding of the employers within their work that will support
them to promote mental health within the workplace (Reavley, Jorm & Morgan, 2017, p.254).
In this context, Rodale Canada’s wellness approaches lays down an argument stating that

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they aim to enhance the level of fitness of the employees for the saving the revenue of the
company.
The wellness initiative by this organisation is to track the mental as well as physical
health with the help of Fitbit wristwatch to inspire competition within the office. Rodale
Hotels and resorts in Canada is one of the organisations that boasted mental health and has
remained on Maclean’s 50 best employment lists (Moll et al., 2015). Their consistent ranking
is due to the determination towards the staff involvement. In this context, Rodale has
conducted a mental health week with the intention of highlighting the high numbers of mental
health factors and illness in Canada. It also offered the methods for their employees to
motivate junior employees to work through the workplace mental health issues related to
stress, depression and anxiety.
3. There is various kind of health mental health wellbeing program offered in these
organisations. Organisations such as Rodale focus more on the responsibility and productivity
of the organisation. Therefore, the leisure and entertainment group presently took an initiative
of the mental health program for a way to enhance the necessary involvement metrics. Again
in Lund beck Canada that is a mental health organisation deals with issues of mental health of
women and men to promote a healthy lifestyle along with employee offerings (Sivris & Leka,
2015). Apart from these, these organisation take additional effort to deal with issues arising
from sexual harassment of women and other mental health issue related to cultural biases
within workplace. The company offers provisions for office gym facilities with additional
fitness courses and room for meditation.
Lund beck Canada that is a mental health organisation takes major initiative for the
well-being of the employees. They have currently launched a $1.4 million project that is a
federally funded program intended to improve mental health within the workplaces

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(Bovopoulos et al., 2016). In this context, the company offers standards online at zero cost to
foster mental health and to improve the well-being and safety of the employee and protect
them from psychological issues.
4. By far it has been observed that employee assistance program is mostly used by the
organisations as an external support for mental health issues that are followed by the health
and benefits providers. In this aspect, the companies offer unlimited advantages for the
employees to pay for the therapists. Rodale Canada offers health insurance plans for all the
employees that get automatically enrolled for the employees by adding 1% each year
(LaMontagne et al., 2014). This company also has EAP through provisions of vacations and
paid leave along with medical benefits for the employees.
5. Lund beck Canada recognises the necessity of the workplace while addressing the
issue within the workplace while abolishing stigma around the mental health factors and
offering the required resources for all the employees to maintain safety and health standards.
It has been found the company is determined to integrate health standards and cultural
improvements within the workplace (Kelloway et al., 2017).
However, research survey on the respondents dealing within the organisations has
reported that there is an increased requirement for more mental health education and tools
that are present within the workplace to support mental health along with the organisation's
cultural changes that indicate the approval of mental health issues (Kleinman et al., 2016).
Rodale Canada offers organic far within an attached cafeteria to withheld cultural concerns
by offering locally sources food and accessibility to Rodale Institute.
6. Anxiety disorders and depression are highly prevalent amongst female employees.
They have been suffering mostly sexual orientation. Therefore, in order to address these
issues, Rodale Canada publishes journal and magazine for sustaining mental health and