01. Requirement of an Employee Relations

Overview

Do you think, is an employee relation is one of the requirements of a modern workhouses in current Organizations?

Employee relations are basically, ties between employees and employers. Reinforcing of those ties between two parties will be more benefitted for both parties. An organization could be maintained positive or negative relationships between their employees as accordance to theirs human resourcing policies. Is the outcome of employees being really depending on employee relations of an organization?

Employee and employer relations are challengeable in the current work environment due to the appearance of “AI” (Artificial Intelligence) and Chat Bots in to the job market. Are the relations of employees and employers are moving in to a wrong direction?

This is an attempt to discuss about the relations of the Employees and employers, importance of it, consequences of negative relations, requirement of an effective strategy of an employee relation and important facts of a strategy effective employee relationship modal.

My further expectation is to find collective answers for the above questions while discussing facts and figures according to the above main topic.

What are Employee Relations

Employee relation is effectively managing of relationships with employees and employers. Mostly the employee relations are focused on both individual and collective relationship in the workplace with the increment of the connection of the management and the employees of an organization. Increasing in connection between employees and the management will be emphasized by following facts

·         Governing the mutual respect, trust and the appreciation.

·         Building a strong company culture.

·         Encouraging, supporting and addressing theirs concerns and conflicts.

However, maintaining a positive relationship with an employee is a crucial since it is covering the contractual, practical, physical and emotional dimensions of employees. Good employee relations management will translate employees into wellbeing and productive employees. Employee relations could be identified based on the organization policy and the programme.

Most of the responsibility to maintain the employee relationship is assigned to the Human Resource department of the organization. Maintaining of the positive employee relation is a challenge since the company is look in the matter in a view of earn profits to the company while employees are looking in to bargain their benefits.

 

Further, Michael Armstrong has explained the requirement of the employee, employer relationship is in a different way. According to the author, the same relation will be based on following factors.

1.      Bargaining of pay work negotiations.

2.      Discussions of Employment practices.

3.      Terms and conditions of employment.

4.      Issues arises from the employment.

5.      Employees voice

Quote - Employee relations are basically about the pay–work bargain – the agreement made between employers and employees whereby the former undertakes to pay for the work done by the latter. Unquote

On a very basic level, numerous businesses essentially need employees who will do everything that they are said without being excessively expensive. They need commitment and responsibility. Conversely, employees need a say in the amount they are compensated, their agreements of business and the manner by which their work is coordinated. They need great working circumstances, security of business, a solid and safe work space and the extension to raise and determine complaints. Conflicts of interest can emerge among businesses and representatives on these issues, and these conflicts are settled by the different worker relations processes.
 

 Vertical and Horizontal Employee relations 

 

According to the employee relations, there are two type of relations such as Vertical and Horizontal relationships in the organization. However, vertical relations refer to the relationship between employees and employers, while horizontal relations refer to the relationship between colleagues on the same level in a hierarchical structure.

• Vertical Employee Relations: This refers to relationships between an employee and his or her superiors (e.g., management, executives, administration).

• Horizontal Employee Relations: This term encompasses all same-level employee-to-employee relationships, including employees who are working together on a project or employees who are simply sharing a chat during break time.

Review 

People are further analyzing the relationship of employees in an organization and identified the spread of the same and its effect to the organization. Therefore, this study will be father extended while searching the importance of the employee relations and impact of the same to an organization and its developments. 

• However, there is a question still the employee relations are still required? 
• If there is no such requirement, why people are still studying/researching about the importance of the employee relations in an organizations? 

References  

Verlinden N,Employee relations – AIHR [Online]-  https://www.aihr.com/blog/employee-relations/#:~:text=10%20tips%20for%20an%20effective%20employee%20relations%20strategy,legal%20aspects%20of%20employee%20relations%20...%20More%20items – Accessed on 08^th November 2023

Armstrong,M and Tylor,S. Handbook of Human Resource Practice: 878-890 pages – Referred 10^th November 2023

Crail,C and Watts,R (2023) What is employee relations – Forbes [Online] - https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/what-is-employee-relations/ - Accessed on 13^th November 2023