Mental Health Part 2: Managing Mental Health - Roundtable

This Roundtable discusses the podcast 'Mental Health Part 2: Managing Mental Health' which explores three main topics: managers need to balance their duty to manage performance with their duty of care, managers should balance empathy and consequences according to the employee's insight and remose, and the problems caused by maladjusted personality traits. Topics explored in the Roundtable included: the delicate and sometimes complex balance between caring for an employee with mental health concerns and protecting those around them - and framing the balance as mutual benefit where the worker is successful at work; the interpersonal skills needed for managers given the strong economic case for promoting positive psychosocial factors in the workplace; how to identify successful leaders who dominate their subordinates with poor behaviour and how to deal with them decisively and unambiguously.