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Employer Employee Relationship:
Employee
relations refers to collective relationships between employer and their
workforce. However current trend refers to wider individual and collective
workplace relations. On the other hand, the increasing individualization of
employment relationships following many factors such as individual workplace
rights decline of trade union reach, influence and perhaps increase in
contingency workers, flexible nature of work all contribute to a shift in this
relationship (CIPD, 2017).
Several factors are influence the relationship dynamics…
Employee
engagement is changing to be more individual employee based as there is a shift
from collective to individual in the delivery of goals and financial returns
increasingly. Therefore, employee engagement has become a vital role of the
employment relationships. Despite this change in the UK CIPD surveys suggest
that there link in the way collective consultation and workplace conflict is
managed and this is related to levels of employee commitment (CIPD. 2017).
Managing
relationships at its best is complex, a decision which has not been well
thought-out without employee participation or none participation of employees
can break the trust and confidence. Example Starbucks’ decisions to prohibit
workers wearing rings with stones or engagement rings. While relaxing the
policy on tattoos has back fired on its worker morale. Further analysts are of the
view it may backlash on business based on the coffee giant’s declaration (SHRM
online, 2014).
Psychological Contract:
On
the other hand, the psychological contract, the un written contract if the
employee’s aspirations and expectations are defaulted due to lack of care by
the employer the trust and confidence may be torn leading to attrition or poor
performance by the employee.
Interesting
in USA a Gallup poll conducted in October 2013 suggest that there are too many
Miserable Workers and questioned where is HR going wrong? Further it suggested
in the U.S alone more than 173 Mil people grade themselves out of bed each
morning with zero enthusiasm (SHRM online, 2014).
Technological Changes and employee relationship
Finally,
such processes as technological development also changes the way people work
and how they are engaged with their jobs changing the relationships between
employer and employee further.
Reference:
CIPD
(2017) Employee relations: An introduction: Understand what employee relations
means as a concept and what it means to the employers. 27th April
2017 report of CIPD UK.
SHRM online (2014) Top 10 Employee Relations Articles of 2014. https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/employee-relations/pages/top-employee-relations-stories.aspx
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