NEW YORK, April 28, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Managers expect that employees will miss work due to illnesses. But there are preventive measures they can take to keep employees healthy in the first place, as well as to lessen the impact of extended time away from the office. Elisabeth van der Gulik offers this essential information in Het Verzuimgesprek: The Absenteeism Conversation (now available through AuthorHouse).
Written in Dutch and English, this book is an essential resource for any business environment. Van der Gulik opens the lines of communication between employees and their managers during times when a worker is most likely to feel unmotivated to do his or her job.
"The fact that an employee has been reported ill may give an important signal to the employer," van der Gulik writes. "It might be important that the employer makes contact with the sick employee in an early stage. The contact with the employee takes place by an... absenteeism conversation."
According to the author, managers play important roles in their employees' recoveries in that an essential part of the process is regaining the motivation to work. The book clearly defines the best management practices for this. In addition, this resource delves into the topic of stress prevention and reduction in the workplace. Van der Gulik presents several models to show the various ways stress can have a negative impact and how to resolve these issues. She also details a specific workshop that managers can implement to improve the atmosphere and keep employees in a positive mind frame conducive to a satisfying day's work.
A practical guide on how to keep motivation and confidence up, stress down and absentee problems negligible, Het Verzuimgesprek: The Absenteeism Conversation connects with anyone immersed in the business culture.
Van der Gulik has a diploma in analytical chemistry from WesteindeHospital in The Hague, Netherlands; a diploma of medicine from Nijmegen, Netherlands; a certificate of social medical assessment from the Netherlands School of Public Health in Utrecht; and a certificate ofbasic counseling and coaching. She also completed a course in common and experimental oncology in Villejuif, France. She has worked as ananalytical chemist, an assistant physician and research associate in pathology, a medical advisor and a physician in assurance medicine and occupational health services. Het Verzuimgesprek: The Absenteeism Conversation is her first book. She has also published De Toepasbaarheid van Enkele Stressmodellen en de relatie met verander en stress management in de werksituatie: The Applicability of Several Stress Models and the Relation to Change and Stress Management in the Working Situation (available through AuthorHouse).
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