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The Effect Of Employee Relations On Employee Productivity In An Organization
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CHAPTER ONE
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Maintaining
healthy employee relations in an organization is a pre-requisite for
organizational success. Strong employee relations are required for high
productivity and human satisfaction. Employee relations generally deal
with avoiding and resolving issues concerning individuals which might
arise out of or influence the work scenario. Strong employee relation
depends upon healthy and safe work environment, cent percent involvement
and commitment of all employees, incentives for employee motivation,
and effective e communication system in the organization. Healthy
employee relations lead to more efficient, motivated and productive
employees which further lead to increase in production level. Over 40
percent of the companies listed in the top 100 of Fortune magazine’s
“America’s Best Companies to Work For†also appear on the Fortune 500.
While it is possible that employees enjoy working at these organizations
because they are successful, the Watson Wyatt WorldwideHuman Capital
Index study suggests that effective human resources practices lead to
positive financial outcomes more often than positive financial outcomes
lead to good practices.
In recent times, while most workers are on
job, they do not produce more simply because of the un-healthy
relationship they have with their fellow colleagues and employers. A
recent study conducted by Blyton (2008) revealed that employees do not
put up their best performances at workplaces when they are un-happy with
management, government, or even their fellow colleagues. Bad
employee-employer relationship results in strike actions and lockouts.
All these actions taken by employees to display their grievances only do
the organization harm than good as productivity will be reduced
drastically.
By many accounts, employee relations today are in
crisis. In academia, its traditional positions are threatened on one
side by the dominance of mainstream economics and organizational
behaviour, and on the other by postmodernism. In policy-making circles,
the industrial relations emphasis on institutional intervention is
trumped by a neo-liberal emphasis on the laissez faire promotion of free
markets.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]One of the most pressing issues facing most organizations today is the need to raise employee productivity. There is a widespread belief that productivity improvements can only be achieved through a fundamental reform in the area of employee relations. Changes are thought to be necessary both in the organization and structure of work and in the way in which employees are trained, remunerated and motivated. Moreover, it is argued that these changes cannot be separated from the need to overhaul ou ... Continue reading---
