Organizational change is something every business should work towards, rather it is keeping up with the changes of technology or the changes in improving mental health within an organization. Mental healthy is a talked about discussion and this is because more people are taking mental health more seriously. Before people didn’t discuss their problems and if they did, they were looked at as if they were crazy. Organization change is about “adapting the group to meet changes in the environment” (University, 2020). People are seeing the changes in mental health and realizing that there is a need for change within an organization and to start applying it.
In an article I just recently read it discusses how organizations that employee firefighters, law enforcement, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and other employees who are employed in public safety professions should receive mental health coverage. These changes should be put in place and there has been a lot of talk about it, but it has been hard especially when “cultures do not provide a supportive environment for individuals who seek help” (Knox, 2020).
Part of organization change is by involving cultures and this helps by creating a leadership. Being able to get organization cultures on board with providing mental health to their employees will not be easy, but it is believed it can be done by creating suitable changes to organizational cultures. To make a change within an organization we must take into consideration the culture that influences that organization.
Some ways to implement mental health within an organization is by using a planned changed. There are three stages in apply change, please image below for the three-stage process.
Image by: (Mulholland, 2017)
References
Agovino, T. (2019, Aug. 03). SHRM. Retrieved from Mental Illness and the Workplace: https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/all-things-work/pages/mental-illness-and-the-workplace.aspx
Knox, A. G. (2020, Feb. 24). In Public Safety. Retrieved from Changing Organizational Culture to Improve Mental Health : https://inpublicsafety.com/2020/02/changing-organizational-culture-improve-mental-health/
Mulholland, B. (2017, July 24). Process.St. Retrieved from 8 Critical Change Management Models to Evolve and Survive : https://www.process.st/change-management-models/
University, P. S. (2020, Feb. 29). Lesson 05: Learning and Change in a Global Setting. Retrieved from Organizational Change: https://psu.instructure.com/courses/2041071/modules/items/27977844
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