Contrast Counselling Services
Offering counseling services in a work environments aids in ensuring employees remain in a positive state mentally. Stress accumulating from work-related factors affects productivity and hence the need to employ counseling services either in-house or contracted externally. In-house counseling services include the use of counselors that the organization employs directly (McLeod & Henderson, 2003). On the other hand, the contracted services or external counseling services include those offered by an external body hired by the company on a contractual basis. The in-house counselors exist within the organization while the contracted counselor may provide the services from their established location. The similarities between the two methods are they all aim at ensuring employee stress remains at manageable levels resulting in high levels of effectiveness. Counseling services at the work environment all aim at improving the productivity of each of the employees also improving their performance (Aydogdu & Uzel, 2010). The services also provide mutual benefits for the organization both in the short and long term hence proving essential in the functioning of an organization. Both the methods target reducing stress levels in employees.
There exist differences between the two methods. The in-house counseling services only occur in cases where the company hires the counselors keeping them for the long term providing services available fully at the disposal of the employees. On the other hand, contracted services are only availed to the employees on short term and need basis. The in-house counseling approach proves costly considering the counselors are part of the employees of the company compared to the contracted services which may prove cheap since the services are only procured when needed. It proves easy for the counselor to build lasting relationships with the employees under the in-house method compared to the contracted services due to the high level of availability of the counselor.
References
Aydogdu, C. F. & Uzel, E. (2010). The Understanding of Workplace Counseling: A Study on University Sample. International Journal of Business and Management Studies. http://www.sobiad.org/ejournals/journal_ijbm/arhieves/2010_2/05f_ceyda_aydogdu.pdf
McLeod, J. & Henderson, M. (2003). Does Workplace Counseling Work? The British Journal of Psychiatry. …
