Employee Relations

What is employee relations?

Employee’s relations initially known as industrial relations. When employee relations compared with industrial relations, it has a wider concept and recognition in the industry. According to Armstrong (2014) employee relations can be define as “Approached and methods adopted by employers to deal with employees either collectively or through their trade unions or individually.

One of the most important resource in any organization is human resource. Any business cannot be survived without them. In the organizations employees cannot work alone to get the work done. They need to communicate and manage relationships among themselves to run business smoothly. Hence employee’s relationship is very vital to any organization.

Importance of employee relations

Employee relation helps to build up employee engagement, productivity, motivation and moral in any organization.  Also employee who is in good terms with the manager always feels happy and when he is happy, he works hard, produce better work and this will keep the customer happy which leads to business improvement. Other than these benefits there are some importance in employee relations. ER encourages good organization atmosphere which help to build good understanding and cooperation. Also its helps to clear the issues of an organization.  

Parties of the employee relations

In any employee relation, it consists of three groups. They are employers, employees (trade unions, employee associations) and the state.

This can be refer as a “Tripartite relationship” each party plays a vital role in ER process and each party depends on the other parties. Members of the trade unions (TU) need the jobs for their living. Management owns the job opportunities and they expects efficiencies and productivity from the TU’s. As a results of this dependability on the other party management and TU’s have to respect each other.

State need the TU’s as well as the management to fulfil its obligation to the general public in providing social welfare and other needs. The priority of the state is to ensure industrial peace in the county. Although the parties mention above depend on each other, the powers of the parties are not equal. State is the most powerful party in this process.

As a conclusion employee relation is something vital in any organization. Which benefits the organization in fulfilment of its long term goal and targets. Because if the organization safe guard the employee, they in return will feel that it’s their own business, this attitude will benefits both parties.

Referencing:

Armstrong, M and Taylor, S (2014) A Hand Book of Human resource Management Practice,

Dessler, G (2013) Human Resource Management, Pearson, 13th ed.,