CONTEMPORARY EMPLOYEE RELATIONS STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES

 WHY AN ORGANIZATION NEED EMPLOYEE RELATION STRATEGIES?

Business Strategies concerns on any action plan  designed to achieve its Long term Vision and Mission where it is to be. Same way, Employee relations Strategies concern on Human Resource policies, practices and Goals to promote strong, healthy and productive work environment as well as a positive work relationship between employer end employee filling their need and wants.  Any Organization that willing to achieve its Business Goals must  have proper strategies to achieve defined Goals. As Majority count of Business organizations are people oriented, they should have a proper Employee relations strategy to manage Human Resource effectively and efficiently, reaching defined Business goals. These Strategies can be different according to the Organizational Structure, Vision and Mission. Also, there can be different strategies to be followed in different sections or divisions to achieve Organizational objectives.

WHY AN ORGANIZATION MUST CONCERN ON CONTEMPORARY EMPLOYEE RELATIONS STRATEGIES

Business Environment is rapidly changing with the Technology development, and competition. In order to retain in the Competition, Business needs to concern about the Concept of Contemporary Employee relations.

Organizations need to create an ethical organizational culture to propel job satisfaction and increased performance among the employees to foster excellent and cordial employee relations and develop sustainable and prosperous organizations (Priyanka Panday 2022).

Radha Yadav, Priyanka Panday, Naman Sharma (2021) emphasises that it is mandatory to create an Ethical climate in the Work place in order to have control and reduce deviance of Human Resource

In addition to above factors, an Organization must be concerned about Contemporary Employee relations strategies to ensure the following benefits.

01. Keep the Organizational performance in a Sustainable level

02. Face to Dynamic changes of Work force and Employee expectations

03.Face to Dynamic Changes of the Technology

04. Ensure the Regularity of Compliance level

WHAT ARE THE CONTEMPORARY EMPLOYEE RELATIONS STRATEGIES TO BE IMPLEMENTED FOR A BETTER OUTCOME?

In order to have a positive work relations as well as Organizational Developments, Employer must establish the following Contemporary Employee relations strategies in the Organization.

01.Create Flexible Work schedules that helps to increase Employee performance and productivity

02. Introduce new Employee wellness programme that motivates the Work Force

03.Introduce a New Reward and Recognition  scheme that helps performance development.

04.Introduce new Technology  that speed up the Transparent Communication

05.Introduce Employee performance Development Programme 

CHALLENGES OF CONTEMPORARY EMPLOYEE RELATIONS STRATEGIES

Implementing Contemporary Employee Relations strategies, creates challenges that causes efficiency issues of the operation flow.  As Work force consists X and Y type of Employees, the Management has to develop Contemporary Employee relations strategies matching with both type of employment, and it is a big challenge impress all employee at once. Therefore, Contemporary strategies can generate positive and negative effects to the operation.

significant differences in the work engagement level of employees with different demographic and job characteristics, such as age, years of work experience, and employee position in the organizational hierarchy. The probable strategies proposed contribute towards identifying new directions in the area of employee engagement by recognizing the worth of demographic variables with employee engagement (Naman Sharma, Narendra Chaudhary, Vinod Kumar Singh 2019)

References

Priyanka Panday (2022), “A Sustainable Model for Effective Employee Relations in Contemporary Organizations”, Volume 13, Available at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1144-8957

Radha Yadav, Priyanka Panday, Naman Sharma (2021), “ Critical Issues on Changing Dynamics in Employee Relations and Workforce Diversity”, Retrieved from: https://books.google.lk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=kxkseaaaqbaj&oi=fnd&pg=pr1&dq=contemporary+employee+relations+strategies

Naman Sharma, Narendra Chaudhary, Vinod Kumar Singh (2019), “Management Techniques for Employee Engagement in Contemporary Organizations”, available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330457038