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Managing Human Capital

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CHAPTER 11
Building Positive Employee Relations
Meaning & Scope
Definition Of Employee Relations
Establishing and maintaining the positive
employee-employer relationships that contribute
to satisfactory productivity

EMPLOYEE
RELATIONS

maintaining a
Motivation, positive,
morale, and productive, and
discipline cohesive work
environment
Different parties in
Employee
Management
Relationship
Different Parties In Employee
Management Relationship

Relationship with client Relationship with the Relationship with political Relationship with the public
and suppliers authorities and other organization administration and relation
regulatory bodies of a publistic nature
Interaction &
Lecture Method
Importance of Legal
& Ethical
Interaction and Lecture Method

Communication
Fair Treatment
Programs

Employee
Employee
Involvement
Recognition
Programs
What Shapes Ethical Behavior at Work?

The person Situations


(bad apples) (bad cases)

Company
Environment
(bad barrels)
Importance of Legal and Ethics

• Safeguarding the Company


Reputation
• Keeping Employee Loyalty
• Promoting Ethics Programs
• The Right Side of the Law
How Managers Can Create More Ethical Environments

• Reduce Pressures • Hire Right


• “Walk The Talk” • Use Ethics Training
• Institute Ethical Polices • Use Rewards and
and Codes Discipline
• Enforce The Rules • Institute Employee
• Encourage Privacy Policies
Whistleblowers • Monitoring
• Foster The Right Culture Acknowledgment
Legal Measures
Three Pillars of Fair Discipline
• Rules & Regulations
• Acceptable disciplinary process begins with
clear set of R&R
• Cover problems such as theft, destruct company
property
• Penalties
• Second effective disciplinary
• Depends on offense and number of times occur
• Appeal Process
• Ensure supervisors mete out discipline fairly
• Essential but no panacea
• Can mitigate effects of unfair discipline
• May be impossible to overcome some
supervisory behavior
Ways to Discipline Employee
Make sure evidence Warn employee
Make sure to Relate efficient and
supports charge of adequately on Have employee sign
protect employees’ safe operation of
employee consequences of form
due process rights environment
wrongdoing misconduct

Produce substantial Apply rules &


Objectively evidence of regulations or Maintain their
Keep dignity
investigate matter misconduct in penalties without rights t counsel
investigation discrimination

Adhere to
Listen to what they Don’t act while company’s
Burden of Proof Get facts
has to say angry disciplinary appeal
process
Discipline Without Punishment
Issue oral reminder for first infraction

Issue formal written and place a copy in personnel file if another incident arises within 6
weeks

Give a paid, one-day ‘decision-making leave’. Let them take a day off with paid to decide
whether still wants to abide by company’s rules

Dismissal if behaviour repeats. If no further incidents occur, then purge the 1-day paid
suspension from the file
Best Practice for Employee
Relationship
• Give Employees Access to Decision Makers
• Give Employees Multiple Channels for Training and Development
• Gamify!
• Offer Benefits and Rewards With Meaning
• Ask Employees What They Really Think
• Offer a Path for Resolving HR Issues
• Train All Managers and Supervisors at the Corporate Level in Positive
Employee Relations
• Give Employees Opportunities for Work-Life Balance
• Try Something Daring
Best Companies to Work For
Google: Happiness and People
Analytics

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