2. What is Industrial Counselling…?
Industrial counselling can be explained
as providing help and support to the
employees to face and sail through
the difficult times in life.
3. Ingredients of couselling
Counselling of staff is becoming an essential function of the managers.
The organisation can either take the help of experienced employees or
expert, professional counsellor to take up the counselling activities.
Increasing complexities in the lives of the employees need to address
various aspects.
4. Why counselling at industrial sector
Needs of
counselling in
industrial sector
Stress of
completing
targets
Work-load
Meeting
deadlines
Relations with
subordinates
or colleagues
Work-life
balance
Lack of time
&higher
responsibility
5. Benefits of effective couselling
Helps employees to tackle with the problems effectively.
Employees are able to sort their problems.
Helps in decision making.
A new way to look at the perspective.
May reduce the number of absenteeism of employee.
It may prevent termination from employer or resignation from employee.
It reduces the cost of hiring new employee and training new staff.
Possibility of smooth coordination between employer and employee.
6. Qualities of counsellor
A professional counsellor/any senior, experienced, mature employee.
Understand the problem of counselee &able to give a proper advice.
Good patient listener.
Able to boost the counselee for his/her career path.
Show a positive way.
Sort out the official problems of the counselee.
Not compare the counselee to other persons.
7. Understand the situation of the counselee.
Warm manners and social etiquettes.
Excellent communication skills.
Sufficient time to understand and listen about the counselee’s problems.
(it doesn’t means that counselling should go on for hours).
8. Problems of Industrial Counselling
Counselee will not be able to discuss their official or
personal problems with the counsellor, if they don’t
trust or have faith in counsellor.
9. Conclution
At the last industrial counselling has a positive impact on the counselee’s life
as their problems are solved and they lead a stress free life. Counselling
increases the productivity of employee and the confidence about the work.
The corporate world is getting changed and so the HR process also.
Counselling not only helps employees but also show how much the
organisation cares for industrial workers.
10. Referance
Industrial counselling-definition,benefits –
www.pgagroups.com/employee-counselling.html
Counselling in industrial settings in industrial relationship
management- www.wisdomjobs.com/e-university/industrial-
relations.html
The importance of industrial counselling at work place –
www.surejob.in/industrial counselling.html