Mental Health and Well-Being: Moving Ahead Towards an Efficient Work Environment

A stable mental mind or health can be defined as the ability to cope up with daily stress of life. All human being possess mental disorder at one point of time due to various factors. We all experience stress, worry, anxiety, sadness, fear and fear which are all normal emotions. When an individual is unable to balance these emotions in their mind, it leads to depression resulting in inability to do mere daily tasks. Decreased work performance, absenteeism, various health issues and low commitment has been noticed in many bank employees. These bank employees usually face tremendous amount of work demand and pressure to meet various targets, which eventually result in unhealthy work-life balance and stress. The objective of this paper is to express the understanding of various mental illnesses, and the stigma related to it when comes to a workplace. In order to tackle such problems, Employee Wellbeing Programs are initiated by many organisations. It’s background and different tools within the program, help to cater the mental health need of an employee. EWP has become a crucial strategy for Human Resource Managers all over the world, thus creating mutual benefits for both employer and employee.