Employees spend two-thirds of their waking hours on the job. Personal problems, along with increased worker stress and insecurity evident in Australian workplaces, contribute to absenteeism, low morale, excessive waste and turnover. This can also lead to an increase in lost time injuries.
Grant Michelson, in his article on the role of workplace chaplains in industrial relations, indicates the importance of chaplaincy services...
“All of the managers interviewed recognised that their employees periodically faced work and non-work problems and believed that these problems impacted job performance. The managers regarded that workplace visits by chaplains as providing a valuable avenue for improving the morale of employees which, in turn, was believed to impact positively on rates of worker productivity.”
(The Role of Workplace Chaplains in Industrial Relations: Evidence from Australia. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 44:4 December 2006, pp. 686-687)\
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