Stress and Mental Wellbeing at Work: Business Case Resources
The resources you'll find on this page relate to making the business case for taking action on stress and promoting mental wellbeing at work. The information in these resources cover a number of important aspects in such as:
You'll also find useful guidance documents, which include advice around best practice, and promotional material including a presentation and flyers you can use. Much of this comes from the [UK] National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which launched important guidance around promoting mental wellbeing at work in 2009.
These tools and resources are publicly available so are free to access and use. There are quite a number of resources on this page so please scroll down the page to access them all.
- The impact of stress on individuals and the organization,
- The legal position, including health and safety law and the risk of litigation from stress cases
- The management of stress
- Persuading managers and getting their commitment to take action
You'll also find useful guidance documents, which include advice around best practice, and promotional material including a presentation and flyers you can use. Much of this comes from the [UK] National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which launched important guidance around promoting mental wellbeing at work in 2009.
These tools and resources are publicly available so are free to access and use. There are quite a number of resources on this page so please scroll down the page to access them all.
Business Case Report (CIPD)
This report, "Building the business case for managing stress in the workplace", comes from CIPD, the professional body in the UK for HR and people development. You can download this report below...
This report, "Building the business case for managing stress in the workplace", comes from CIPD, the professional body in the UK for HR and people development. You can download this report below...
| business_case_for_managing_stress_at_work.pdf |
NICE Guidance, Tools and Resources
The wellbeing guidance, tools and resources below come from the [UK] National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). NICE issued their guidance, PH22 (which stands for Public Health Guidance 22) in November 2009. It's useful and important on a number of levels. It provides background evidence for the case for promoting mental wellbeing at work. NICE also provided a useful tool for calculating both the costs of mental ill health and stress and the likely return on investment from taking steps to improve employee wellbeing. Supporting documentation highlights best practice with regard to managing stress and wellbeing at work. It's all good stuff, evidence-based and you'd be mad not to use it to make a powerful business case for preventing stress. There's even a PowerPoint presentation you can use!
This first document is the press release that coincided with the launch of the guidance. It gives some good headline figures, an overview and some good quotes.
The wellbeing guidance, tools and resources below come from the [UK] National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). NICE issued their guidance, PH22 (which stands for Public Health Guidance 22) in November 2009. It's useful and important on a number of levels. It provides background evidence for the case for promoting mental wellbeing at work. NICE also provided a useful tool for calculating both the costs of mental ill health and stress and the likely return on investment from taking steps to improve employee wellbeing. Supporting documentation highlights best practice with regard to managing stress and wellbeing at work. It's all good stuff, evidence-based and you'd be mad not to use it to make a powerful business case for preventing stress. There's even a PowerPoint presentation you can use!
This first document is the press release that coincided with the launch of the guidance. It gives some good headline figures, an overview and some good quotes.
| mental_wellbeing_in_the_workplace_press_release.pdf |
Promoting Mental Wellbeing Guidance
The document below is the actual guidance and is aimed at all employers and their representatives. It's also very useful for support professionals such as HR and Health and Safety, and support organizations who advise employers. It provides recommendations and best practice for different sizes of organizations.
The document below is the actual guidance and is aimed at all employers and their representatives. It's also very useful for support professionals such as HR and Health and Safety, and support organizations who advise employers. It provides recommendations and best practice for different sizes of organizations.
| ph22_guidance.pdf |
The document below accompanies the guidance and is all about the business case for promoting mental wellbeing at work. It has some great stats that are highly influential if you need to persuade senior colleagues about the need to take action. What is particularly useful is that there are stats about the costs of 'presenteeism', which are estimated to be approximately twice the costs of absenteeism. In the current, very difficult climate this might already be an underestimate. Please scroll down for a spreadsheet tool to calculate the costs - and likely savings if your organization takes action to promote wellbeing.
| ph22_promoting_mental_wellbeing_at_work_final.pdf |
The Promoting Mental Wellbeing 'flyer' below is a very useful 2-page summary if you need something succinct to show people what it's all about.
| ph22_mental_wellbeing_flyer.pdf |
Stress Costs and ROI Tool (excel)
Below is a spreadsheet tool you can use to calculate the costs of mental ill health and stress and the likely savings if your organization takes positive action. It needs to be a more recent version of excel for it to work and you might need to enable macros. Essentially you can plug in some key stats from your organization and the tool does the rest - a useful and persuasive tool. This tool is also in the tools section of this website, where I've written some more about how it works.
Below is a spreadsheet tool you can use to calculate the costs of mental ill health and stress and the likely savings if your organization takes positive action. It needs to be a more recent version of excel for it to work and you might need to enable macros. Essentially you can plug in some key stats from your organization and the tool does the rest - a useful and persuasive tool. This tool is also in the tools section of this website, where I've written some more about how it works.
The Quick Reference Guide below is what you'd expect. More depth than the flyer but states succinctly what the guidance is and what the main recommendations are.
| ph_22_quick_reference_guide.pdf |
Promoting Mental Wellbeing Presentation
The PowerPoint presentation below can be used for you to make the business case in your organization. It's to the point with useful guidance notes for the presenter.
The PowerPoint presentation below can be used for you to make the business case in your organization. It's to the point with useful guidance notes for the presenter.
| phi_22_promoting_mental_wellbeing_at_work_presentation.ppt |
Evidence Base
If you are interested in the evidence base upon which NICE base their guidance and tools, you'll find it in the reports below. There's some good stuff here although with a lot of detail. Probably most useful for researchers or students who want to dig into the background evidence.
If you are interested in the evidence base upon which NICE base their guidance and tools, you'll find it in the reports below. There's some good stuff here although with a lot of detail. Probably most useful for researchers or students who want to dig into the background evidence.
| promoting_mental_wellbeing_at_work_evidence_review.pdf |
But then again, in case that wasn't enough, here's some more...
| promoting_mental_wellbeing_at_work_supplementary_information.pdf |
And more...
| promoting_mental_wellbeing_at_work_fieldwork_report.pdf |