All employees usually go through full body health checks prior to recruitment to ascertain absolute positive physical health. They are screened for body weight, diabetes, blood pressure, HIV (at times) and several other assessments as deemed important by the company to assure fitness for the particular job profiles. Likewise, assessing the vulnerability to stress, watching out for emotional problems, anxiety, personality issues, leadership styles, attitudes towards work, and more, is also crucial to assure that employees are stable enough to focus on work efficiently and effectively. For instance, aggression, stress, low confidence, inferiority, poor time management, anxiety, social phobia, depression; all tend to hamper work performance, increase time inefficiency and elevate organization expense.

Ergonomic research has publicized the correlation between workplace psychological problems and work performance. Work itself is instrumental in generating a myriad of negative emotional symptoms in the strongest willed individuals. Predisposed vulnerability can rapidly facilitate an emotional breakdown. At the same time, if these problems interfere with appraisals and promotions, they lower confidence and self-esteem further, thereby elevating frustration, disappointment and dissatisfaction. This additionally deteriorates the condition through a cascading vicious cycle. Picking these troubles well in time helps make appropriate decisions for timely intervention.

Human resource departments have responsibilities towards organizations and their employees who comprise it. To ensure the best interests of the company, the recruitment, retention and well being of a supreme quality employee is mandatory. An assessment of the mental status helps the organization to target psychological aberrations and offer viable solutions well in time, to ensure that no one suffers: not the employee or the organization. This will make everyone stronger, healthier and happier.