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Fathul Himam
Carroll, M. 1996. Workplace Counselling: A Systematic Approach to Employee
Care. London: Sage Publications, Chapter 1 6.
Understanding Workplace
Counseling
(1)
CONTEMPORARY
CLIENT
COUNSELOR
CLIENT
COUNSELOR
CLIENT
EAP
PROVIDER
COUNSELOR
CRITICISM OF WORKPLACE
COUNCELING
Becoming part of the politics of the organization
Shifts the burden of having to cope with a stressful
environment from the employer, who is creating
the environment, to the individual who
experiencing stress
Becomes tool of the management to treat the
employees with problems
It is not integrated into organizations overall
management but remains on the outside
Brief-Therapy Models
Limited numbers of therapy sessions: 6 8
therapy sessions
It is more as a focused counseling
Problem-Focus Models
Sees the counselors role as helping individuals to
work with her immediate problems or issues she
brings
Consist of five-DASIE stages:
1. Develop the relationship, identify and clarify
problems
2. Assess problems and redefine in skills term
3. State working goals and plan interventions
4. Intervene to develop self-helping skills
5. End and consolidate self-helping skills
Work-Oriented Models
It is centered solely on issues blocking an
individual in her work
It is directed to get the employee fit and
ready for work
It fixes the performance problems or for
welfare of the organization through the
individuals
Manager-Based Models
Views managers as quasi-counselors for
their staffs
This additional role blurs the managerialformal role with counseling-intimaterelationship-development role
Externally-Based Models
Brings the counselor from outside of the
organization, usually in the form of
Employees Assistance Programs (EAP)
Several formats: some employ established
EAP or set up an individual expert to work
on seasonal basis with the employee
Externally-Based Models
STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
Internally-Based Models
STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
CAN BE SUBJECTIVE
CAN BE VULNERABLE IF
REORGANIZATION TAKES PLACE
CAN BE ISOLATED
POLITICALLY INCORRECT
DIFFICULT TO MAINTAIN
CONFIDENTIALITY
Welfare-Based Models
Provide a range of welfare oriented
interventions
Formats:
- befriending
- home-visiting during sickness
- giving legal and financial advice
- advocate
- information provider
Organizational-Change Models
Providing a forum where people are listened, trusted,
respected and helped to make life-growing decisions
Set up training that will solve the problems caused by
ineffective systems
Consulting with managers about ways of working with
employees
Managing individual and organizational change and
transitions
Helping with bad news
Empowering individuals and groups within the organization
Creating awareness of individual differences
Does some assessment of individual and group dynamics
related to change
Purpose of Workplace
Counseling (3)
Organizational
concept of
counseling
Personal
concept of
counseling
Purpose of Workplace
Counseling
Sources of Workplace
Problems
Confidentiality
Incompatibility between organizational and
counseling objectives
The loyalty of the counselor
Managing different roles with the same
client
Honesty
Explaining Workplace
Problems
Problems
emerge from
the system
Problems
emerge from
within the
individual
Counseling-orientation models
INNER WORLD
OUTER WORLD
Behavior is a response
To unconscious fears
And assumptions from
Early childhood
experiences
Psychodynamic/
intrapsychic
Behavior is a response
To a lack of congruence
Between the persons
Self-concept and
experience
Cognitive
THERE
AND THEN
Behavior is a response
To individuals thoughts
and perceptions
Humanistic
Behavior is a response
To external stimuli,
And problem behavior
Comes from faulty
learning
Experiential/
interactive
Behavioral
Behavior is a response
To situational/dispositional
factors
System/
interactional
HERE
AND NOW
Behavior is a response
To connections between
People and the system
They are in
Power Culture:
- valued more on control and strength
where individuals know their place in the
pecking order
- motivation is extrinsic and rewards are
often monetary
- able to get things done in an emergency
situation
- counseling may be perceived as a way of
helping weaker individuals manage their
jobs
SETTING UP COUNSELING
IN THE WORKPLACE (5)
THE PREPARATION
PREPARING THE ORGANIZATION:
1.
SETTING A SMALL REPRESENTATIVE TEAM TO
NEGOTIATE THE SUITABLE COUNSELING NEEDED
FOR WHOM AND WHAT PURPOSES.
2.
ENGAGING AN INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT TO
WORK TOGETHER IN NEED A ASSESSMENT
PROCESS
3.
ASSESSING THE RESOURCES AND FACILITIES
NEEDED FOR WHAT KIND OF COUNSELING
4.
REVIEWING THE COST
5.
ASSESSING THE TOP MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT
TO COUNSELING
6.
FINDING THE BEST-MOST-SUITABLE COUNSELING
PROVIDER
THE PREPARATION
ASSESSING COUNSELING PROVIDER:
1. EXPLANATIONS OF HOW THE SERVICE
WORKS
2. WHAT PROGRAM OF SERVICES OFFERED
3. ARRANGING THE SUPERVISION
4. METHOD OF MONOTORING AND FEEDBACK
5. HOW THE COUNSELING RELATIONSHIP
MUST BE MAINTAINED
6. CLARITY OF CONTRACTS, INSURANCE,
REFERRALS, EMERGENCIES, AND OTHER
ISSUES SUCH AS: TRAINING BACKGROUND
OF COUNSELORS, ETHICAL CONDUCTS,
ETC.
ASSESSING WORKPLACE
COUNSELING
ASSESSING THE ORGANIZATION:
1.
WHAT IS THE CULTURE OF THE ORGANIZATION?
2.
WHAT ARE THE COUNSELING FOR?
3.
WHY IS THE ORGANIZATION LOOKING FOR
COUNSELING JUST NOW?
4.
HOW DOES THE ORGANIZATION UNDERSTAND
COUNSELING?
5.
HOW COMMITTED ARE THE TOP PEOPLE TO
COUNSELING?
6.
WHAT FACILITIES WILL BE PROVIDED FOR
COUNSELING?
7.
WHO IS THE ORGANIZATION CONTACT PERSON
WITH THE COUNSELING SERVICE
8.
HOW WILL THE COUNSELING BE INTEGRATED INTO
THE ORGANIZATION?
CONTRACTING
PREPARING AGREEMENTS OF ROLES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. ADMINISTRATIVE CONTRACTS WHICH
OUTLINE VARIOUS ARRANGEMENTS
CONCERNING SUCH ISSUES AS
RESPONSIBILITIES, PAYMENTS, TIMING,
PUBLICITY, ETC.
2. PROFESSIONAL CONTRACTS WHICH
COVERS CERTAIN TOPICS SUCH AS
POLICIES, OBJECTIVES, TASKS AND ROLES
OF VARIOUS INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED AND
METHODS OF IMPLEMENTATION AND
EVALUATION
3. PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACTS WHICH ARE
BASED ON RESPECT AND TRUST
THE TERMINATION
CONTRACTS EITHER CAN BE RENEWED
OR TERMINATED:
1. PROVISION MUST BE MADE FOR
INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE STILL IN
COUNSELING. DATES WILL BE
NEGOTIATED FOR ENDING, REFERAL
MAY TAKE PLACE AS A RESULT.
2. GOOD OPPORTUNITIES FOR
EVALUATION AND FEEDBACK
3. TERMINATION IS BEST DONE
FORMALLY.
AN INTEGRATIVE MODEL OF
INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEE COUNSELING
(6) STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
CONTRACTING
PREPARA ASSESSMENT
TION
PREPARATION BY
COUNSELOR
CLIENT
STAGE 4
ENGAGING
STAGE 5
TERMINAT
ING
UNDERSTANDING
CLIENTS
AGREEING TO
WORK TOGETHER
MANAGING THE
PERSONAL,
ADMINISTRATIVE,
AND
ORGANIZATIONAL
SIDES OF
COUNSELING
AGREEING A
TERMINATION
DATE
METHODS OF
ASSESSMENT
CONTRACTING ON:
PRACTICALITIES
ROLE OF CLIENTS
AND COUNSELOR
ROLE OF THE
ORGANIZATION
RE-ENTRY OF
EMPLOYEES
WORKING
TOWARDS
TERMINATION
THE TASKS OF
WORKPLACE
COUNSELING
PROCESS OF
TERMINATION
AGREEING AND
ASSESSMENT
CONSIDERING
INTERVENTIONS
AGREEING
COUNSELING
SHARING
INFORMATION
FINAL SESSION
REFERRING, IF
APPROPRIATE
AFTER
TERMINATION
SELFACTUALIZATION
EUSTRESS
(DEVELOPMENT)
INDIVIDUAL
EXCELLENCE
SYNERGETIC
EXCELLENCE
STRESS
(HOMEOSTASIS)
INDIVIDUAL
ORGANIZATION
ORGANIZATIONALLY
PRECIPITATED
DIFFICULTIES
PERSONAL
DIFFICULTIES
PERSONAL
DISINTEGRATION
COLECTIVE
EVOLUTION
DISTRESS
(BREAKDOWN)
SYSTEMIC
DESTRUCTION
CONTRIBUTION
TO
ORGANIZATION
HUMAN
MOTIVATION
SOME SIGN
OF
DYSFUNCTION
UNFINISHED
COMPLETION,
RESOLUTION
FIXED, DYSRUPTIVE
PATTERNS OF
RELATIONSHIP
WORKING ALLIANCE
ACHIEVING,
ORGANIZATIONAL
DOING COMPETENCE,
PRODUCTIVITY
DEVELOPMENTAL
DEVELOPING THE
ORGANIZATION
GROWTH LEARNING
TASK-DOMINATED
CULTURE, STERILE,
DRIVEN WORK
CLIMATE
NEEDINESS, OVEROR UNDERPROTECTION OF
STAFF
PERSONAL
DEVELOPING THE
ORG. AS A WORKING
COMMUNITY WITH A
HEALTHY CULTURE
TRANSPERSONAL
DEVELOPING WIDER
ORG., HUMAN RES.
INTIMACY, FRIENSHIP,
COMMUNITY
CONFLICT AND
COMPETITION, LOSS
OF TASK FOCUS
BEING, MEANING,
CONNECTION
MEANINGLESSNESS,
ANOMIE, DISREGARD
OF ETHIC