Employee
relations
Introduction:
Employee relation are concerned with managing the
employment relationship and the psychological contract. They consist of the
approaches and methods adopted by employer to deal with employee either
collectively through their trade unions or individually. This includes
providing employees with a voice and developing communications between them and
management. An organization with a good employee relations program provides
fair and consistent treatments to all employee.
Employee relations program are typically part of a
human resource strategy designed to ensure the most effective use of people to
accomplish the organization’s mission. Employee relations programs focus on
issues affecting employees, such as pay and benefits, supporting work- life
balance and safe working environment.
The
process of Employee relations
Employee relations are concerned with managing and maintaining
the employment relationship taking into account the implications of the notion
of the psychological contract. This means dealing with employees either
collectively through their trade unisons or individually, handling employment practices,
terms and conditions of employment and issues arising from employment,
providing employees with a voice and communicating with employees.
One of most effective ways for a organization to
ensure good employee relation is to adopt a human resource strategy that places
a high value on employees as stakeholder in the business. When employees are
treated as more than just paid laborer, but as actual stakeholder with the
power to affect outcomes, they feel more valued for the job they do.
Today in the world most of companies, organizations,
are practicing ‘employee relation’ as proper way to develop the overall
objectives of the companies and same time of the employees. By today most of
the companies have given the special attention to the following labor
priorities to make sure good employee relations.
01. Respect for the employees
02. Offer competitive wages and benefits
03. Treat every employee with dignity and without any tolerance
04. To assure a safe and healthy working environment
for the employees
Picture 01, Key dimensions of employment relation
The
main objectives and the important of the employee relations for the company as following:
01. To develop and maintain harmonious relations
between management and labor so essential foe higher productivity of labor and
industrial progress in the company
02. To safeguard the interest of labors as well as
management by securing the highest level of mutual understanding between all
sections in the company
03. To establish and maintain industrial democracy
based on the participation of labor in the management and gain of industry.
04. To avoid all forms of industrial conflict so as to
ensure industrial peace by providing better working and living standards to
worker
05. To raise productivity in an era of full employment
by reducing the tendency of higher turnover
06. To ensure a healthy and balanced social order
through recognition of human in industry and adaptation of social responsibilities
to the advancement of technology
Conclusion:
The most important part is no business can run effectually
without the employees or people. Employer need to manage relationship in the
workplace to keep the business functioning smoothly, avoid the problems, and
make sure the employees are performing at their best. So without the good
relationship between the employee and employer there will be big issues.
