Dealing with Loss and Grief in the Workplace
Everyone is affected by loss and grief at some time in their life. This applies in the workplace as much as anywhere else. People do not leave their grief at home when they go to work and, of course, loss issues can arise within the workplace as well as outside it. While grief can be an extremely painful experience, it is not necessarily harmful. However, if the needs of the grieving person are not taken into consideration at work, their pain can be intensified and their suffering increased unnecessarily. Also, if the significance of grief is not recognised, the result can be accidents, problems with quality leading to complaints and conflicts and so on. It is therefore important that loss and grief issues are not ‘brushed under the carpet’ in busy workplaces. To find out more, choose from the menu below.
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Publications by Neil Thompson to help you deal effectively but sensitively with loss and grief issues
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Loss and Grief provides help in explaining the impact loss and grief can have not only after the death of a family member, colleague or friend, but also in so many other aspects of people's lives. |
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Loss, Grief and Trauma in the Workplace provides guidance on how to respond to the challenges that arise when loss, grief or trauma affects people in the workplace. It is an unfortunate but inevitable fact that all organisations will face these challenges from time to time. This book is a much needed and invaluable resource for anyone wishing to manage people in a working environment effectively but sensitively. |
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Responding to Loss (Russell House Publishing, 2010)Loss and grief can affect anyone in any organisation. For some staff, managers and leaders, dealing with them is a frequent experience because of the nature of their work. For others, it may be less frequent; but they are still somehow expected to know what to do when a death or other loss does occur - even if no-one has actually helped them learn. How best can they and their colleagues continue to work alongside someone who is grieving? What is reasonable to expect from a grieving person as they continue to go about their work?
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DVD Resource Working with Grief (Avenue Media Solutions, 2010) This DVD has been prepared to help a wide variety of people to develop their understanding of the significance of loss and grief in the workplace and in people’s lives more broadly. It is |
