Organizational Resilience in Business Management: Strategies, Barriers, and Enablers for Supporting Employees with Serious Mental Illness under Stress and Competition
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https://doi.org/10.69980/ajpr.v25i2.115Keywords:
Serious Mental Illness, Organizational Resilience, Stress Management, Workplace Pressure, Mental Health Integration, Employee Well-Being.Abstract
This systematic review investigates the management approaches together with obstacles and facilitators of organizational resilience for Serious Mental Illness (SMI) patients, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, when working in competitive high-stress business environments. People with SMI encounter distinctive workplace obstacles because of stress and inadequate mental health support, along with discrimination against their mental health condition, which leads to poor performance and decreased job stability. This review combines recent research about the stress-competition-mental health relationship by studying how people with SMI handle their challenges in changing business environments.
The review analyzes performance barriers, including discrimination at work and inadequate accommodation and insufficient mental health support, while studying organizational policies that promote mental health and peer support and stress management to identify performance improvement strategies. Organizations that implement mental health support services within their operational strategies develop stronger environments that enhance long-term employee stability and productivity for SMI cases while delivering mutual advantages to both workers and organizations.
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