Improving Employee Relations through Human Resource Management

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Improving Employee Relations through Human
Resource Management
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Improving Employee Relations through Human
Resource Management

• The success or failure of your organisation
  depends largely on the health of the relationship
  shared among the employees that make it up. If
  your employees do not share the vision, do not
  feel valued at work, do not understand the
  expectations of how they should work together,
  then negative impacts and sub-optimal performance
  are the likely outcomes. To avioid this occurring
  or to deal with it when it does, an organization
  needs access to timely and professional HR advice.

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• The area of employee relations focuses on the
  behaviour and interaction of employees in the
  workplace. This may concern the relationship of
  the employees among themselves, and their
  relationship with the employer. Due to diversity
  in terms of culture, gender, age groups, and
  religious beliefs, difference of opinion is bound
  to happen from time to time. Moreover, trust is
  another important factor that can bind or divide
  the employees. With the help of an experienced
  human resource professional, the conflicts among
  the employees and with the employers can be
  sorted out and workplace relations can be
  strengthened.

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Role of HR Professional in Employee Relations
Management

• Most organisations have a dedicated human
  resource management department that focuses on
  core activities like attracting, selecting,
  training, assessing and rewarding employees for
  business growth.
• The HR team is usually the first point of call
  for new people to your organization, and as such
  they need to be modelling and delivering services
  in a way that is aligned to, and consistent with,
  corporate values and behaviours.

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Mentioned below are some tips that can help in
maintaining positive employee relations in an
organisation

• Ensure regular, open and relevant communication
  channels
• Let them know their contribution to the
  organisation matters.
• Provide professional and personal career
  development opportunities linked to business
  priorities and future directions.
• Provide incentives (intrinsic as well as
  extrinsic) to give them a reason to put in more
  effort.
• Encourage their feedback and input to
  improvements at work.

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These simple strategies can help in developing
better understanding among the employees and
employers. Retaining valued employees as well as
managing underperforming ones is an ongoing core
function for all leaders, managers and
supervisors External HR professional can help in
this regard by supplementing internal resources
at critical time and/or with critical skills
enabling business as usual to continue while
stills addressing key people needs when they
arise.
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For more information about how HBA Consulting can
assist you with Workplace Investigation related
issues, please contact
Gary Champion Principle HBA Consulting Tel [phone] Mobile [phone] gary.champion_at_hbaconsulting.com.au
Primary Contact Tel [phone] Post PO Box 6262, O'CONNOR ACT 2602 Office 29 Somerville St SPENCE ACT 2615
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