Reducing Workplace Violence through Employee Assistance Programs

Workplace violence is an increasing trend in today's competitive, high-stress world, hence the rise in the number of Employee Assistance Programs (EAP). EAPs can make a tremendous impact on quelling emotions of rage and depression that often drive people to initiate violence in the workplace.

How Do EAPs Affect the Bottom Line?
EAPs can help prevent physical violence in the workplace, as well as other types of destructive actions. Many disgruntled employees, brimming with frustration and anxiety, may settle a score against their employer by embezzling company funds or spreading a harmful negative attitude among fellow employees.

Employees are every company's most important asset. Company trade secrets, intuitive processes, software innovations, and many other business assets exist because of employees. Happy, healthy employees are the foundation for solid a company and an effective Employee Assistance Program contributes to an important building block in achieving this foundation. 

What is an EAP?
Unlike the providers of emotional health coverage included with health benefits packages, whose services are for long-term psychological needs and appointments often must be scheduled weeks in advance, EAPs offer instant access to counselors. An EAP offers a staff of trained and licensed counselors that employees can connect with by telephone 24 hours a day, which is crucial for dousing swells of rage that can quickly lead to violence. 

The Academy Group offers an EAP program as well as a family support program developed by Dennis M. Kowal, Ph.D. For more information about either of these programs, contact the Academy Group at 730-330-0697.