Counseling Needs: the Influence of Personal Correlates among Technical and Non Technical Employees

Understanding various kinds of problems in work situations would help the organizations to provide better counseling services, and create healthy environment for improving the performance. The counseling needs are perceived due to various kinds of problems exist in work situation. The present study examines the nature of counseling needs present among 286 technical and 144 non-technical employees working in different organizations, and find out the influence of personal correlates (age and experience) on these counseling needs. The counseling needs are categorized into work, personal, group, health, and economic and psychological types. The results indicate a significant amount of work needs observed among the technical, and whereas family needs are found in non-technical employees. The implications of the findings for minimizing the counseling needs in different aged, and experienced groups of technical and non-technical employees are suggested.