Employee Relations


It is a known fact that employees are the most important resource within an organisation who contributes towards the achievement of the organisational objectives. For any of the organisation without human, there is no possibility on achieving the organisational goals. Accordingly, the organisation should maintain a work environment that would satisfy the employees and should establish strategies to improve their morale, building organisational culture and covey expectations. Employee relations’ is such a concept where the organisation creates and cultivates a motivated and productive workforce who could benefit the organisation (Armstrong, 2009).

Sequeira and Dhriti (2015), has stated in their discussion that according to Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Employee Relations is a broader concept that incorporates many issues from collective bargaining, negotiations, employment legislations, work life balance and equal opportunities and etc.... Further it comprises of many practices which ensure that the employees are happy and productive within the organisation.
In other words, employee relations deals with resolving issues of the individuals which might influence the negatively for the employee performance. Consequently, strong relationship depends on healthy and safe work environment, commitment of all employees, incentives or rewards for the employee motivation, effective communications within the organisation. Healthy relationship would signify that employees of the organisation should feel positive about their identity, their job and being a part of the organisation.



Basically, in common, the employers simply want their employees to perform well while reducing the costs to the organisation. In contrast, the employees demanded on how much they rewarded and what would be the terms and conditions for the particular employment. This is considered as a point where conflicts of interests would arise. The role of employee relations would comes into play at this point in order to provide effective and consistent procedures for rule making, consistency in dealing with employee relations issues such as fairness that could affect and improve employee behaviour or to provide with a mechanisms to resolve differences and disputes. Eventually value added outcomes that could result from good employee relations include improved morale and commitment, fewer grievances, productivity increases and better control of labor costs.

Conclusion

In concluding the discussion employees are the most important resource within an organisation who contributes towards the achievement of the organisational objectives. Thereby organisation must have strategies to resolves the issues of the individuals which might influence the negatively for the employee performance.


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Reference

Armstrong M (2009), ‘Armstrong’s Handbook of Human Resource Practice’ 11th edn., India

Sequeira, A H and Dhriti, A (2015), Employee Relations and Its Impact on Employee Performance: A Case Study, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka


Comments

  1. Jinendran20 September 2019 at 00:51

    Good work Shanka, clear brief about employee relation in an organization and as you mentioned organizations should have strategies to maintain good relationship. Strong relationship depends on healthy and safe work environment. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Wasantha Arunasiri20 September 2019 at 17:51

    good explain sanka. we can get knowledge about Employee Relations.Thanks for sharing your knowledge..

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  3. KasunMBA22 September 2019 at 06:15

    Management should understand that employees are most important resources in the organization,They should be treated well.
    Agree with you.

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  4. KasunMBA22 September 2019 at 06:15

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  5. Malintha Gannile24 September 2019 at 15:03

    Interesting article , nicely explained about Employee Relations, we can easily get the idea from this article. thanks for sharing this.

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  6. Prasanna10 October 2019 at 11:25

    Interesting to read and agree with your statement. As you mentioned above trade union action in unitary way explains that a group of followers/ union members who simply carried out the leader's instructions without questioning. Most of trade union s are following the same approach in Sri Lankan context where 99% of the followers doesn't know the reason for the trade union activity and politics controls every thing. Thanks for sharing.

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