HR management functions in any organisation must be vibrant to the personal or family hardships of an employee. This is because, whatever we do, the personal hardships issues continue to crop up from time to time. These may be due to a traumatic situation in the family, loss of a close family member, a painful divorce, or even an ongoing battle with addiction.Such hardships may affect the efficiency of the concerned employee; thus, the organisation.
In all such situations, HR should try to find the most comfortable way to mitigate the personal hardships.
The following strategy may be adopted to deal with such situations.
We should be always indirect and tactful in trying to know about the hardships. Though sometimes, the employees themselves come up and want the help required.
At most of the times, it has been observed that listening intently is good enough to give the moral support to employee. It mitigates their hardship.
You must be fully aware of the benefits your company offers in such specific situations.
All efforts in this direction, should not appear to be favoritism or preferential treatment. At the same time, all this should be done in such a way as the work does not suffer.
You may try to help by any of the following ways
As a representative of the organisation, you have to strike a right balance between genuine care and corporate support. But you must realize that an employee has to accomplish the assigned task and it should not disturb the output of the organisation.
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