Employee Relation impact on performance

07th September 2018

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Employee Relations impact on performance

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In this modern world Employee relationship is the key factor to successfully maintain the business. Basically the term employee relation refers to a company's efforts to manage relationships between employers and employees. An organization with a good employee relations program provides fair and consistent treatment to all employees so they will be committed to their jobs and loyal to the company.

According to Armstrong (2014) an organization consists of people who work together to achieve the organization's goals. Employee or employment relations are concerned with managing and maintaining the relationship through their trade unions or individually. In other words how management and employees live together and what they can do to achieve their goals

According to Farnham (2000), employee relations deal with the interactions amongst the parties to the employment relationship. These consist of three groups. Those are employers and employees, the parties who act on their behalf and the third-party role played by the state agencies and the EU institutions. He points.

When organizations seek to hire new employee for their workforce new employer employee relationship starts. Managing this relationship are needed to achieve organization’s goals. Unshakable relationships can lead to greater employee happiness and it will greatly help to increase productivity too. (Schreiner, 2018)

As per Bahreini (2017) maintaining a healthy employee relationship is essential to organization's success. Employee relation is mostly required, not only for retaining staff but for high productivity and human satisfaction within the organization. If there is a strong relationship between employees, the place will be more productive.

As per the Bahreini (2017) there are 4 tips for improving employer - employee relationships through technology.

• Track Goals With Performance Analytics - Employee's performance tracking can be done through real time systems and reports can be shared on same day in order to have a better product positioning.
• Communicate better via video - Communication tools like video platform enable employers to build more confident & employees' believe that their performance would improve through corrective feedback.
•  Provide training on demand in the cloud - Cloud based services have given employers the ability to equip their staff on real time training materials & interactive web based training activities. This is especially helpful in ensuring compliance across the organization
•  Prioritize with digital checklists - Since paper lists are outdated, equip staff with digital check lists. So they will success in meeting initiatives, company standards and instantly prioritize the tasks too.

References

Armstrong, M. (2014). Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice, 13th Ed

Bahreini, S. (2017). Four Tips For Improving Employer-Employee Relationships Through Technology
Available at : https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2017/08/23/four-tips-for-improving-employer-employee-relationships-through-technology/#5eb7a3de6f01

Farnham, D (2000) Employee Relations in Context, 2nd edn, CIPD, London

Schreiner, E. (2018). Chron. Retrieved June 30, 2018, from Employer Employee relationship