Employment Relationships- Problems and Perspectives Introduction The employment relationship is the heart of any industrial relations system. It is the relationship between the employer and the employee. A successful employment relationship has always been the foundation of any successful business or organisation no matter how big or small. Variety of philosophers and writers of management have written a lot of theories relating to employment relationship. These theories have changed vastly from
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1‚ An employment relationship describes the dynamic‚ interlocking economic‚ legal‚ social and psychological relations that exist between individuals and their work organizations. Palgrave Macmillan (2013)‚ Glossary [online] Available at: < http://www.palgrave.com/business/brattonandgold/glossary/glossary.htm> [Accessed 17th September 2013]. Factors that impact on this relationship both have a detrimental effect to the running of a business. I will focus on two internal and two external. These
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Managing Employee Relations * Relationship between an employer and employees lies at the heart of what makes an organisation effective. * Employees have power to allow organisation to meet and exceed its objective or to fail. * Highly motivated employees= more productive‚ engaged and greater contribution towards its overall direction and success. * Demotivated employees= high absenteeism‚ poor time keeping‚ low productivity‚ strikes (collective strike) ‚ working to rule= undermine
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its impact on unions and employers in industrial conflict. The paper will mainly focus on the Workplace Relations Act 1996. This Act would be used to explain the effects it had on the shift of control using relevant case study examples. This paper is divided into four parts‚ explanation of conflict in the workplace‚ the invisible frontier of control‚ and the impact of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 with case study examples. Introduction It has been argued that industrial conflict is inevitable
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Introduction In Singapore industrial relations is important as Singapore is a hub for global activities‚ if Singapore were to be an inequitable place to work in‚ it will result in Singapore being unattractive to people to work in and firms would not be enticed to expand their business in Singapore leading to low job creation. There are various systems in place in Singapore to create an equal playing field in industrial relations. But no system is perfect‚ in the essay I would be talking about the
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1001EHR Employment Relations Essay: Assignment 1 For any type of company‚ human resources (HR) are the vital body and the people within that company are essential in keeping that body in fine fettle. This essay will analyse through diverse evidence whether or not “Manager’s encouragement of employee voice can lift the well-being and productivity”. Clearly said by Dulewicz (1989) “a basic human tendency is to make judgments about those one is working with‚ as well as about oneself”. Noting that
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industrial relation and human resource are the two major components of the business which has not changed much. Industries sure are dependent on the customer‚ but they are also dependent of their work force and employees. There is always a need to perform coordination between the industrial needs ad employee needs thus many organisation and countries have brought in changes to their system and they have revamped the employment relations according to the changes. The employment relations were initially
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Performance management is a continuous system which enables line managers to assess their employees’ performance. Performance Management is directly looking at how people work‚ how they are managed and developed and ultimately to maximise their contribution to the organisation. As (M Martin et al‚ 2010‚ pg 157) stated; ‘A process which contributes to the effective management of individuals and teams in order to achieve high levels of organisational performance. As such it is established shared
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from accidents are higher with more advanced medical technology nowadays. This contributes to the rising percentage of People with disabilities through either by birth‚ old age or the above reason‚ but are there enough employment policies to protect them and what are the employments issues are they facing? About 5% of the population or 100‚000 people in Singapore have disabilities (Singapore Press Holdings 2012). People with disabilities (PWDs) have needs which are not very different from those
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growth To summarise: To create current good practice for Managing Learning and Development in Groups ‚ the first we need to understand the principles and practices of managing learning and development in groups: • strategies to manage group behavior and dynamics; • techniques which facilitate the delivery of learning and development in groups; • characteristics of group environments that foster learning and development‚ • risks to consider when managing learning and development in groups;
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