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Guide to employee relations
Employee relations is the term used for the relationship between employers and employees. Today, employee relations is seen as focusing on both individual and collective relationships in the workplace, with an increasing emphasis on direct forms of representation and helping line managers establish trust-based relationships with employees. A positive climate of employee relations - with high levels of employee involvement, commitment and engagement - can improve business outcomes as well as contribute to employees' wellbeing.
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What we mean by employee relations
Employee relations means the relationship between employers and employees. It can mean individual relationships, or collective relationships through things like trade unions and staff forums. While employee relations may have historically focussed on collective bargaining with trade unions, there is now an emphasis on helping line managers to establish trust-based relationships with employees. This can [u2026]
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Creating good employee relations
There is no single answer to what creates good employee relations u2013 it will depend on your organisation, the context of your work and your working practice. But having a focus on and interest in employee relations will help you take positive steps and anticipate problems. Itu2019s important that you take steps to understand how [u2026]
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Handling employee relations and conflict in the workplace
Workplace conflict remains a fact of organisational life and needs to be managed positively and proactively. Individual and u2018unorganised conflictu2019, in the form of sickness absence, bullying or harassment, and employee turnover, can be just as harmful and costly to an organisation as organised industrial action on a collective level. According to CIPD research on [u2026]