Hopefully, exemplary job performance will be the payoff. Unfortunately, individuals often experience problems which cause decreased effectiveness both at work and at home.
Troubled employees cost business and industry a great deal of money each year.
The American Academy of Family Physicians estimates 70 to 80 percent of doctor's visits are for stress related disorders. The simple truth is that employers bear the brunt of this financial burden. All of these things can usually be directly correlated to a troubled or despondent employee. As we have seen above, the cost to organizations in terms of troubled employees is staggering. Traditionally, these problems have been thought of as the employee's problem, and employees with problems were let go.