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Table 4 shows the number of all days lost in the participating organisation from 2007 to 2011 as a result of
stress, stress as a percentage of all days lost due to mental health issues, and finally stress as a percentage of all
days lost. Through the period of 2010 to 2011 stress has been responsible for more days lost (654.6) and a higher
percentage of days lost with respect to ill mental health (51.2%) and highest percentage of all days lost (8.7%) of
each of the past four year-long periods. This illustrates that stress is therefore the biggest individual mental health
issue in the current organisation, responsible for many days lost (and therefore much of the cost of days lost) and
something that should be addressed.
To summarise, this second half of the chapter was intended to give the reader a strong background
understanding of the participating organisation, as well as the impact that stress and turnover is having within it.
Therefore an understanding of how the organisation is structured in order to help to focus future organisational
change strategies is garnered, as well as an understanding as to how both the organisation as a whole and Service
6 in particular are performing with regard to stress-related sick leave and turnover. Indeed the work has
demonstrated that, as of 2011, Service 6 has a lower turnover rate than all organisations as a whole and the
participating organisation. However, the turnover rate is higher than the average for all public-sector organisations
thus demonstrating an evolving organisation. Similarly it was found that stress has a strong impact on the
participating organisation and Service 6, with it being the third highest cause of long-term sickness absence in the
organisation. Stress therefore clearly has an impact on the participating organisation, and has meant a large
number of working days lost. As such a focus on a methodology designed to improve on the experience of
organisational stress has the potential to have strong positive impacts within the organisation.