FAKULTI PENGURUSAN TEKNOLOGI &

PERNIAGAAN

INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT
TITLE: MENTAL ILLNESS & EMPLOYER
ACTION TAKEN IN WORKPLACE

SUBJECT: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

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MOHAMMAD HASRUL
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BIN DAMAN HURI

DATE: 16/11/2019

SESI 2019/2020
RUBRICK : INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT (10%)

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No. Assessment Criteria Marks Allocation Marks

1. Introduction 20 marks

2. Discussion 45 marks

3. Conclusion 10 marks

4. Citation & References 15 marks

5. Flow and Language 10 marks

Total 100 marks

Table of Content

Subject Page
1.0 Introduction 1
2.0 Discussion
2.1 Categories of Psychological Encounter
2.2 Mental Illness Characteristics of Work
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2.3 Impact of Mental Illness in Workplace
2.4 Employer Action Needed to Handle Mental Illness at Workplace
2.5 Mental Illness in World Perspective
3.0 Conclusion 12
References 13
1.0 Introduction

It is approximately 450 million people have been analysed with mental illness around
the world, where mental illness, substance abuse and neurological diseases contribute to 13%
of the worldwide disease burden. The World Health Organization (WHO) gauge that 1 in 4
individuals experience mental illness at a few points in their life. That means almost 25% of
the population has a mental illness. Depression, on normal, accounts for 4.3% of the by and
large burden of cobalt disease, which is one of the biggest causes of morbidity (Datuk Seri Dr.
S. Subramaniam, 2016). Mental illness or also been called as mental health disorders, it is a
wide scope of emotional well-being problem of scatters that impact your personality,
considering and conduct. Tension issue, dietary issues, addictive practices, discouragement and
schizophrenia which are the instances of dysfunctional behaviour.

Mental illness can perform in numerous places such as working environment.

Globalization and interdependency have opened modern openings for the development of the
world economy and improvement. Whereas globalization has been an effective and energetic
drive for development, work conditions and the work advertise have changed drastically amid
the final two decades (Policy, Development, Dependence, Diseases, & Health, 2000). The key
components in these changes are expanded mechanization and the fast execution of data
innovation. Specialists around the world go up against as never some time recently a cluster of
unused organizational structures and forms scaling back, unexpected business and expanded
workload. Businesses have would in general require the see that work or potentially the
workplace are not etiological parts in psychological well-being issues.

In spite of the fact that, viable mental health administrations are multidimensional, the
working environment is a suitable environment in which to teach people around, and raise their
mindfulness of, mental health issues. For illustration, the work environment can advance great
mental health hones and give instruments for acknowledgment and early distinguishing proof
of mental health issues, and can set up joins with nearby mental health administrations for
referral, treatment and recovery (Milligan-saville et al., 2017).

Eventually, these endeavours will advantage all by decreasing the social and financial
costs to society of mental health issues. For individuals with mental health issues, finding work
within the open work showcase or returning to work and holding a work after treatment is
regularly a challenge. Disgrace encompasses those with mental illness and the recuperation
handle is regularly misconstrued.

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2.0 Discussion

2.1 Categories of Psychological Encounter

Organization gives five categories of psychological encounter that promote mental well-being:

 time structure (a nonappearance of time structure can be a major mental burden);

 social contact;
 collective effort and reason (organization offers a social setting outside the family)
 social character (organization may be a crucial component in characterizing oneself)
 customary movement (organizing one’s day by day life).

Numerous greater companies by and by realize that their employees’ proficiency is related
to their health and well-being. In any case, more accentuation has by and large been put on
physical prosperity than on mental prosperity and well-being. A few components at a working
environment can development employees’ psychosocial health and mental health. Particularly
fundamental in this regard is the opportunity to be included in organizing and carrying out
works out and occasions interior the working environment (Policy et al., 2000). As case, the
opportunity to select and act in one’s chosen way and the potential to predict the comes about
of one’s movement. A related join is the degree to which the environment empowers or avoids
the utilization or alter of aptitudes. Physical security, opportunity for interpersonal contact, and
even-handed pay are as well fundamental.

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2.2 Mental Illness Characteristics of Work

Work Characteristics Conditions Defining Hazard

Organizational Function and Culture  Poor problem-solving environment
 Poor development environment
 Poor communication
Role in Organization  Role ambiguity
 Role conflict
 High responsibility for people
Career Development  Career uncertainty and stagnation
 Poor pay
 Low social value to work
Decision Latitude/Control  Low participation in decision making
 Lack of control over work
 Little decision making in work
Interpersonal Relationships at Work  Social or physical isolation
 Poor relationships with supervisors
 Dual career problems
Task Design  High uncertainty in work
 Lack of variety of short work cycles
 Underutilization of skill
Workload/Work Pace  Lack of control over pacing
Quantities and Quality  Work overload or underload
 High levels of pacing or time pressure
Work Schedule  Shift working
 Inflexible work schedule
 Unpredictable working hours

2.3 Impact of Mental Illness in Workplace

Individuals who inclusion a mental illness may address their capacities or appear up
less certain. A person may have a troublesome time concentrating, learning, and making
choices (Milligan-saville et al., 2017). Signs of a mental affliction may feed much more

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prominent considerations. For case, some person who cannot concentrate may at that point as
well think that they cannot do their work well or push roughly losing their work. It’s basic to
see how these changes impact work execution.

Mental illness can besides have a gigantic effect on connections. Individuals who
experience a mental illness may drag back from others, act in startling ways, take a allocate of
time off, or appear up less productive than typical. This might strain connections with bosses
and co-workers. Mental afflictions gotten supervisors billions of dollars in non-appearance or
weakened days, “presenteeism” (coming to work, without a doubt when the labourer cannot
work well), inadequacy and other benefits, and lost proficiency (Follmer, 2018).

The effect of mental health issues within the working environment can be summarized
as takes after as non-appearance, work execution, staff demeanour and conduct, and
connections at work. For truancy, it will increment in by and large affliction nonattendance and
especially visit brief periods of nonattendance. It too influenced to destitute health such as
sadness, push and burnout and on the physical conditions such as tall blood weight, heart
illness, ulcers, resting clutters, skin rashes, cerebral pain, neck and spinal pain, and moo
resistance to contaminations. Another for the work execution, lessening in efficiency and yield,
increment in mistake rates, expanded sum of mischances, destitute decision-making, and
disintegration in arranging and control of work.

The staff demeanour and conduct will be on misfortune of inspiration and commitment,
burnout, staff working progressively long hours but lessening returns, destitute time keeping
and work turnover which is especially costly for companies at beat levels of administration.
Pressure and clashes between colleagues, destitute connections with clients and increment in
disciplinary issues will influenced the relationship at work. Workers’ health may be a
partitioned objective in its own right (Follmer, 2018). Tending to mental wellbeing issues
within the work environment implies joining social duty in a firm’s ordinary hones and
schedules.

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2.4 Employer Action Needed to Handle Mental Illness at Workplace

2.4.1 Finding the Right Words

What Not to Say Try Instead

“How’s your health? “ “How can we help you do your job?”
“You seem depressed.” “You’re not your usual self.”
“Snap out of it.” “Do you want to talk about it?”
“Think positive.” “It’s always OK to ask for help.”
“I know exactly what you’re “It’s hard for me to understand exactly what you’re
going through.” going through, but I can see that it’s distressing for you.”

2.4.2 Fighting Stigma

Stigma stays a significant hindrance for laborers adjusting with mental illness.
Not exactly third of them get treatment, agreeing to the Association for Work condition
Mental Health. A couple of deferrals for dread their supervisors or collaborators will
treat them in an unforeseen manner. Understood movies and news extent of viciousness
submitted by people with mental disorder offer help support pessimistic speculations
(Eaton, 2017). Actually, under 5 percent of unpleasant bad behaviours are submitted by
people who have a psychological mess, consenting to the American Psychiatric
Affiliation. Especially since of the fight they have experienced, they are consistently
incredibly given to their organization and their work.

Bryan Gibb, head of open guidance for the National Committee for Behavioural
Health, totals up how ungraceful workplace reactions can be, case as "Everyone keeps
up a vital good way from Dave since Dave is odd, and nobody needs to deal with it.
Definitely, there is an execution issue and Dave's gone. If Dave had malignant growth
or diabetes, or was having horrendous cerebral pains, we'd turn over in switch to help
him. We'd set him up meals."

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2.4.3 Creating Awareness

DuPont has made an informative program to empower agents to contact

collaborators who appear at be in a difficult situation. The organization's ICU crusade
(which represents Identifying, Connecting and Understanding, just as "I See You")
joins a five-minute video that trains agents how to ask appropriate inquiries when
someone appears at fight (Milligan-saville et al., 2017). It prescribes non-critical
discourse starters, for example, You're not your standard self. Agents are weakened
from attempting to investigate peers. It is anything but an outrageously muddled
message. It's reasonable engaging people to perceive when another individual is in a
difficult situation and telling them it's Alright to be a customary, mindful individual and
offer help them out, DuPont's overall boss of agent help and work/life organizations.

Gathering directors normally show up the video in month to month bunch social
occasions where presentations on the organization's inside qualities are required. A type
of the video is being made to impart to different managers through the Organization for
Working condition Mental Health's site. As part of the association's Right Course
action, the webpage besides joins free downloadable texture that managers can use to
help authorities perceive the indications of hopelessness.

DuPont screens for wretchedness as segment of its prosperity risk assessment,

which is mystery. For quite a while, there's been this feeling the workplace is this clean,
unfeeling condition where you're assembled to abandon your sentiments. While
conveying something overpowering, you don't mull over publicizing to help me. We're
reasonable recommending that equivalent thoughtfulness can apply to people who are
representing trouble (Eaton, 2017).

2.4.4 Education Is Key

 Educate workers around the signs and indications of mental wellbeing clutters.
 Encourage workers to conversation approximately stretch, workload, family
commitments and other issues.
 Communicate that mental illnesses are genuine, common and treatable.
 Discourage stigmatizing dialect, counting destructive names such as “crazy,”
“loony” or “nuts.”

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  Invest in mental health benefits.
 Help workers move back to work after they take off.
 Consult along with your worker help program.

2.4.5 Rely on Experts

In the wake of discovering that an agent is experiencing a psychological

sickness, various HR specialists depend strongly on the orchestrate of arranged
specialists available through their labourer help program (EAP). From 2009 to June
2014, the area has seen a 12.5 percent increase inside the use of medication drugs for
mental infection by its 585 laborers and their wards. One-fourth of the 25 unused cases
opened with the EAP in the midst of the essential a half year of this current year were
for enthusiastic ailment (Huang, Yang, & Pescosolido, 2019).

The EAP trains administrators to remain alert for execution gives that appear
reveal a psychological wellness require however to in addition guarantee
representatives' security. At the point when a laborer talks clearly practically singular
issues, directors can step in and suggest that the person in question call the EAP. A
couple EAPs offer telephone talks, while others insinuate guests to approved mental
prosperity providers in their locale for in-person directing.

2.4.6 Returning to Work

A typical error roughly dysfunctional behaviour is that individuals can't recover

from it. In truth, 65 percent to 80 percent of individuals will gain ground with fitting
end, treatment and advancing checking (Huang et al., 2019). In a 2004 consider,
laborers who gotten excellent bitterness care organization more than two quite a while
understood a 28 percent improvement in non-appearance and a 91 percent headway in
presenteeism (when agents are show at work however not beneficial). Excellent
hopelessness care organization incorporates calm guidance and checking by a
psychological prosperity capable so treatment can be adjusted in the occasion that
required.

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 More bosses are advancing toward a formalized come back to-work plan as
opposed to relying upon the supposition of an arrange head alone to assess a worker's
situation. Come back to-work plans may join directing and lodging indicated at bringing
delegates back work speedier. Work can give a lift in confidence and have a basic
impact in a person's recovery. At the point when a delegate starting late advised his
manager nearly being taken to the mending focus and put on a 72-hour hold since he
was reckless, the HR gathering may have required a "readiness for-obligation" test,
which would have been a not well-arranged handle. Instep, the individual was promoted
offer help with arriving at the EAP and getting a mental assessment.

It was a gigantic triumph since the individual was pleasing. He was energetic to
have the reinforce. The person back to work in more than about fourteen days. In the
event that had done a customary readiness for-obligation test, he likely would have been
out about a month and a half. We may not adjust their lead or the outcome, however we
surely can offer help them be increasingly careful to their treatment organize (Huang et
al., 2019). As a boss, that’s approximately all we do.

2.4.7 Making Accommodations

Except if it makes an undue hardship on a trade to do as such, requires most

managers to offer hotel to a delegate with a dysfunctional behaviour—even in the event
that it is roundabout—if the infection impressively restricts a significant life
development (Faizul, Hassan, Kassim, & Hamzah, 2018). Hotel may consolidate
diminished work hours as the specialist moves back to work, approval to work from
local or changed commitments. Supervisors may educate and for sure end a labourer
with a psychological maladjustment without experiencing the instinctively settlement
get ready on the off chance that that specialist secures in awful conduct or displays a
threat.

In any case, a typical mess up that HR and executives make is overwhelming an

organize hazard with something that is reasonable frightening. The precludes division
dependent on the "recognition" of an insufficiency, so HR specialists and chiefs should

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 not endeavour to investigate a worker's condition themselves. The person who we think
includes a psychological issue since they are showing up at work tousled might not
have any psychological issue. They may reasonable have decided to release themselves.
Finally, HR specialists must be ordinary with state law requirements, which can
differentiate from government law.

2.4.8 Respect All Workers

Agents with psychological maladjustments reasonable need to do their

occupations. The specialist who was given up after he uncovered his bipolar mess. He
should be treated with respectability and respect with the understanding that bipolar
mess resembles a few other afflictions that must be dealt with. It tends to be managed.
On occasion, when his pharmaceutical quits working or the side effects cause issues,
he may need support. Be that as it may, he confides in more HR specialists and
administrators will soon consider his to be as they would any physical mischief or
ailment. In the event that they can get it a wrecked leg, they can get it bipolar issue
(Faizul et al., 2018). As more people get it what mental affliction is and isn't, it will be
less requesting to have open talks nearly it. Psychological maladjustment in addition a
disease that should be get it and respect nearly it.

2.5 Mental Illness in World Perspective

2.5.1 Mental Illness in Malaysia

In Malaysia, the National Health and Dreariness Overview, conducted by

Ministry of Health (MOH), exhibits that the prevalence of psychological well-being
issues among people developed 16 quite a while and over was 29.2% as around 4.2
million. From this figure apparently one of every three Malaysian has encountered the
psychological well-being issues. The present situation is incredibly worrying as the
revelations shows that twofold addition for the itemized cases identified with the
psychological prosperity issue in the course of the last 10 quite a while of 10.6% in
1196 and 11.2% in 2006. The sufferers of emotional wellness issue may bring around
destroying influence towards their self and will in general make reckless direct.

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 The correct help and heading must be given to them. At the end of the day,
emotional well-being issues are generally higher among progressively energetic adults,
with teenagers matured 16 to 19 (34.7%), taken after by those matured 20 to 24 (32.1%),
and those matured 25 to 29 (30.5%) (Faizul et al., 2018).

2.5.2 Mental Illness in China

Inside the wake of China's huge money related improvement, thought has gone
to the huge treatment opening that exists for psychological well-being issues.
Addressing 12% of China's masses, assessed the power of any psychological mess at
17.5%, with measures exhibiting that over 91% of 173 million Chinese residents with
a psychological jumble miss the mark to arrive at capable offer help. In 2011, China
passed it’s in the first place National Mental Health Law, articulating driven change for
the psychological well-being advantage transport structure. Realizing this emotional
wellness change is trying as shutting the psychological wellness fissure requires a
staggered methodology, concentrating on both the advantage structure and individual
level parts. To expand mental prosperity scope for both crazy, for example,
schizophrenia and especially non-maniacal disarranges, for example, hopelessness, the
cutting-edge approach focuses to broaden the conscious use of mental prosperity
organizations by making progress treatment accessibility outside the tertiary section.
Be that as it may, dejected mental prosperity capability may keep away from or thwart
individuals from making use of reasonable treatment choices(Huang et al., 2019).

2.5.3 Mental Illness in Australia

Dysfunctional behaviour might be a significant general wellbeing concern,

accounting for 12% of the entire disease trouble in Australia, third after malignant
growth and cardiovascular illnesses. Uneasiness disarranges impact 14.4% of the
Australian people in any one year, and 5.4% will experience a burdensome scene or
dysthymia. The year transcendence of bipolar mess is 1.8%, and in 2010, 0.45% of the
Australian masses were treated for a crazy ailment, most regularly schizophrenia.
Nevertheless, notwithstanding their transcendence, advantage get to and convincing

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ailment organization are significant worries for people with emotional wellness
issues(Farrer, Walker, Harrison, & Banfield, 2018).

Australians with psychological maladjustment report 'intricate and confused'

advantage pathways, and deficiencies in basic consideration settings, especially
concerning exact and helpful assurance, and movement of care between basic expert
and ace emotional wellness advantage providers. Given the focal piece of regular
sharpen in advantage get to and unending sickness organization, it is basic to take a
gander at how basic sharpen is performing in these zones as for emotional wellness
issues, contrasted with different sorts of issues that are directed in like manner sharpen.
Backers of steady care models, for example, the World Health Organization's Inventive
Care for Incessant Conditions framework battle that when examining wellbeing system
responses to ailment organization, deep rooted conditions will in general observe more
similar than differing, both in their impact on patients, families and the structure and
by the way they are regulated, contrasted and extreme conditions.

2.5.4 Mental Illness in USA

From the 1600s until the 1960s, mental sickness was incredibly phenomenal in
America. In addition, all through the colossal bigger piece of American history,
embracing mental medications to control practices, for example, defiance, feel sorry
for, stress, messiness, wriggling, tall activity levels, and negligence in paediatric masses
was unbelievable. In show scorn toward of dispersed data that documents that the finish
of psychological sickness is dubious as there exists no intellectual, metabolic, or some
other kind of observational test that can set up the nearness of mental infirmity,
Americans continue to eat up 80% of the mental medications passed on around the
globe.

The preeminent usually broke down mental sickness in youngster peoples in

America. Regardless, pity examine are extending by and large as data represents that
since the 1990s, there has been a five-to six-crease increase inside the quantity of
American kids being embraced stimulant medications. In 2000, given data which filed
that from 1991 to 1995, 2 to 4-year-old American youngsters had a 2.2-crease increase
inside the paces of upper meds (Stolzer, 2016).

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3.0 Conclusion

The mental health issues display a genuine risk to the nation’s efficiency. At the same
time, we are as it were starting to comprehend completely the predominance and greatness of
the effect of mental health issues within the work environment. Much work still remains to be
done. There's a pressing got to plan methodologies that meet the wants of the working populace.
This will be accomplished as it were by understanding the designs of mental clutter among the
diverse word related bunches and industry divisions.

With issues of labor shortages constantly emerging, it is critical to know whether a few
occupations are at a more basic crossroads than others, and whether able to fathom a few of the
deplete on human assets by focusing on specific occupations or divisions. Avoidance of mental
health issues in organizations could be a major challenge. Disregarding this issue since it is as
well complex to handle would increment the delicacy of the workforce, which is able before
long display critical issues of help or substitution due to the steady loss of the maturing
populace (Mark Ashworth, Peter Schofield, 2017).

Numerous tests have appeared that push anticipation empowers organizations not as it
were to diminish or contain the costs of destitute employee health, but too to preserve and
progress organizational wellbeing and efficiency. We must too get it the affiliation of
employee-sponsored benefits and the predominance of mental health issues within the working
environment as well as designs of inability related to mental illness.

Besides, there has been small speculation in building the joins between scholarly
investigate and trade that would encourage the advancement of such a dataset. However, these
obstacles must be overcome. Without a doubt, in our knowledge-based economy, where the
overwhelming lifting is done with our minds and not our backs, it is basic that we discover the
arrangements.

Successful organizations have recognized properties that advantage both the company
and the employees’ mental health, to be specific business security, self-managed groups and
decentralized decision-making, broad preparing, decreased status refinements and obstructions
(counting dress, dialect, office courses of action and wage contrasts between levels) and broad
sharing of money related and execution data all through the organization. All these
psychosocial components appear that work must stay human which generation morals must
regard the mental keenness of people.

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