Counselling in Indian Organizations: Dialogue with Managers

This book has attempted to provide to provide a managerial perspective of employee counseling in India organizations. This is based on a narrative study of 160 male managers and 120 female managers interviewed in 16 organizations in order to under-stand the employee counseling issues: 1. Problems faced by Colleagues/staff of women and male managers; 2. ways in which problems affect their colleagues/employees; 3. Ways in which the managers helped their colleagues and subordinates overcome problems; 4. Attitudes of male and female managers towards introducing counselling in organizations. The book includes a comprehensive, rich literature update (1995-2005) on workplace counseling and counseling perspective in India organizations. This publication shall be useful to managers at all levels especially in Indian organiz-ations, as it reveals an inner dialogue with managers. It presents organization-wise ana-lys’s of managers narratives on counseling issues.