Employees’ Counselling as a Mechanism for Healthy Post-Work Transition: A Preliminary Survey

This study analyzed employees’ counselling as a mechanism for managing unexpected workplace transition. The objectives were to determine the current awareness level of employees’ counselling as a mechanism for healthy workplace transition and to ascertain the readiness of both management and employees to adopt employees’ counselling as part of their strategies in managing unexpected exit from the organization. In order to achieve these objectives, the study adopted quantitative approach using first Bank of Nigeria Plc. as a case study. The result shows that awareness level of employees’ counselling is low and that first Bank of Nigeria is yet to adopt employees’ counselling in helping victims of unprepared exits to cope with the challenges of such experience. However, the study revealed that the workers believed that employees’ counselling would help them grapple with the challenges posed by unexpected exit from the organization. Thus, the study emphasized the need to incorporate employee counselling into the functions of the Human Resource (HR) Department of the organization.