Grief in the Workplace

This amazing resourceful book provides leadership awareness, understanding, and supportive response actions for organizational leadership when an employee has experienced the unfortunate death of a loved one. The reader should also be aware that other personal life-changing events can cause similar grief impacts on any employee in the workforce, regardless of position or title. An unwanted divorce or acute change in personal health are just two examples that can induce grief in any employee. Fortunately, the same responses practiced by progressive leadership for an employee's death of a loved one can also be highly effective with grief from other personal crises.

Grief in the Workplace is specifically targeted at business owners, organizational principals, managing executives, human resource personnel, and front-line supervision. It is not intended to be provided directly to employees or other business-related associates who are experiencing grief from a family death or personal crisis.The business entities targeted in this publication include for-profit and non-profit organizations, federal, state, or local government agencies, as well as associations and civic groups. While the for-profit business model typically focuses on maximizing profits, all other organizational structures generally share the same goal of taking in revenue and minimizing costs. Therefore, the responsibilities of sound business stewardship fall equally on the leaders of every organizational framework.

Grief will come to work, and those leaders charged with overseeing the bereaved employee should possess the awareness and understanding found in Grief in the Workplace. Doing so will not just mitigate the potential for productivity and revenue loss, but compassionately support the employee, as well as the community.

Grief in the Workplace is a "Solutions-First" leadership coaching publication that is provided in three parts. Part One consists of Chapter One through Chapter Four and affords the immediate guidance to an organizational leader who has current employee grief influences on the job. Right up front, these chapters present effective and successful leadership responses and actions that support the bereaved employee and the business.

There is no need to skim through pages before coming to a solution for those with pressing grief issues. Once responses and actions are well in motion, however, the reader can, and should, move forward through the remainder of the book. Doing this, a wise leader will discover the preemptive means for reducing the potential adverse impacts of employee grief to the business in the future. The proactive leader without a current grief difficulty might first skip forward to Part Two, consisting of Chapter Five through Chapter Nine. This is followed by Chapters Ten and Eleven in Part Three. Part Two contains the cause and effect chapters, and drills deeply into where over $100 billion in annual revenue is lost to businesses across the country.

Part Three of this book provides the reader with an awareness and understanding of what grief, mourning, and bereavement truly mean for the employee who has sadly lost a loved one. At the completion of Part Three, the reader can then return to study Part One with the knowledge of cause and effect already in hand. In doing so, the responses and actions in Part One will be recognized as prudent and compassionate measures for use with the grieving employee.

Of course, the reader is always free to peruse this book in any order desired. The knowledge found in every chapter will provide greater understanding of the need for more compassionate support for the organization's most valued assets. The efforts will have great returns for any business.The recommended guidance found in Grief in the Workplace is intended to assist the leadership of individual organizations in mitigating the collective hidden loss of over $100 billion in annual revenue.

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