Work in Sick Health at Work

Question: Discuss the Report for Work in Sick of Health at Work. Answer: Introduction There are many viruses present in the environment which affects the health of the people which also includes the employees. But due to the work load and impress the boss many employees decided to go to office even during the time of flu. But productivity during the time of sickness is very less and also there is a chance of contaminating other people with the sickness. But now a day employees and management are mostly preferring to be at home rather than going to office during the sickness. In this essay we are going to study about the management theories or concepts related to the productivity, how to manage the sick days during the leave of the employee and make it productive. It also discusses about the advantages and disadvantages of working during sick time. Theories And Concepts There are many theories and concepts regarding the productivity of the employees. One of those theories is the Classical Management Theory. According to this theory focuses on the productivity and efficiency of the employees, rather than focusing on the behaviour of the employees (Kitana., 2016: 16). This management is designed mostly to maintain and predict the behaviour prevailing in the organizations. This theory is a combination of three more theories (Quatro., 2004: 228-249): Taylors theory of scientific management. Fayols Administrative theory Webers theory of Bureaucracy This approach focuses on the customers and investors benefits. This approach helps in decision making and division of the employees according to their specialization in management so as to increase the efficiency of employees, expenses reduction as well as wellbeing of organization (Schlevogt., 2002). Out of all these there is a main setback of the theory. The theory of Classical Management does not focus on the wellbeing of the employees. It does not motivate the creativity of the employees, rather discourages the teamwork (Varma., 2011). To counterpart such disadvantages of the theory, there are some concepts which deal with the wellbeing and happiness of the employees along with the productivity. Some of them are: Motivational theory of Herzberg. McGregors XY Theory Maslows Hierarchy of Needs theory, Etc. Due to the series of developments of the national policy, the absence management for sickness changed in UK along with a benefit of fresh and motivated comeback. The most important part of these changes is the implementation of the Fit for Work service (Blok., 2012). The service is meant to manage the sickness absence at the work place and provides information and advice to the employers and employee about the work and health relation. To manage the sick absence in company, Government started an approach which is mostly based on the report of Carol Black and the responses of the Work and Pensions department (Black, and Frost., 2011). According to this approach, if an employee is meeting the duration of four weeks of leave, the management should refer it to the OH. The managers should be provided with trainings to implement policies about the sickness absence and to make the employees understand about the importance of their attendance. The company should implement some policies and make some contract with the employees regarding the sick leaves to be granted by the company and some exclusive policies regarding some of the exceptional cases which may require special medication and care to the employee. Precautions To Be Taken The management should take some precautions regarding the wellbeing of the staff members to help the affected person as well as to protect the healthy ones. Encourage Workers for Vaccination The management should encourage the employees to get vaccinated during the seasonal flu time or if any other contaminated virus is prevailing. Encourage to stay home The sick employees should be encouraged by the employers to stay at home rather coming to work. If employees are coming to work in sick then there is a fair chance to make others sick and additionally they will not help in the productivity of the company. According to the centre of disease control and prevention, the employees having fever and respiration problem should come to work after 24 hours of their fever ending (Eggert., 2015). The flexible leave policies should be implemented so as to help the employers to give leave according to that. Management should make the employees aware of all the important human resource policies, so as to help them during the sick time. Promotion of Hygiene There are many people who dont care about maintaining hygiene in the workplace. Hence the company should promote hygiene among the employees. It should post signs in the company to take care of the hand hygiene and cough etiquette. The workers, clients and visitors should get easy admittance to the hygienic supplies like: Hand wash and water Disposable towels, Cleaning materials, No touch wastebaskets Alcohol based hand rubs During cough the employees should cover the mouth, so that no other person will have the germs. Clean Workplace The workplace should be kept clean and proper use of cleaning agents and proper disposal of wastes should be done (Rennie., 1995: 75-79). Use of Technology There are some employees who are very much addicted to work. The company should provide such facilities of working from home. In this way the employees can also make their leave time fruitful. Advantages And Disadvantages There are many advantages and disadvantages of keeping the sick employees at home. They are: Advantages By keeping the sick employees at home, the company can increase its productivity. This can save other employees from getting sick. This will give the employees a break from work and get well soon. The employees will recover soon and can come to work early. Disadvantages Sick employee will make other employees sick. The working environment will feel uneasy due to the sickness. The employees will not be able to help in work rather it can do mistakes and can spoil the work. The customer service will decrease. The reputation of the employee as well as the employers will decrease. Conclusion From the above essay we can conclude that going work sick is of no use, rather it will strain the employee. So it is mostly recommended to the employer as well as the employee to be at home during the sick time. To support this even the Government has made so many policies and has started so many services. 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