Unit VII Assignment 1

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Employee Relations and Productivity

209529 Tiffany Chism

Unit VI Scholarly

Dr. Johnston

Employee Relations and Productivity

Employee relation has a direct impact on the productivity that will be achieved by the organization. Healthy employee relation leads to high productivity and hence high customer satisfaction. The purpose of the study is to evaluate and analyze how employee relations affect organizational productivity. The study also intends to investigate the factors for enhancing employee relations for organizational productivity. One of the factors that would enhance employee relation is embracing teamwork and unity among employees. Additionally, the other factor that would contribute to employee relation is through sensitizing and educating all employees on the importance of healthy relationships in their workplaces; this will enable them to work on ways to improve the relations they have with their fellow workers. The alternative way of enhancing employee relation is through addition of incentives. Incentives also need to be embraced in places of work in departments that are experiencing health relationships (Felstead & Reuschke, 2021). Besides employees also need to benchmark what other organizations have been able to achieve together when working as a team. These factors will motivate employees to embrace healthy relationships within the organization.

The major pressing issue facing most of the companies today is ways on how to increase employee’s productivity. Individuals believe that productivity can be increased and achieved through various basic reforms in the areas of employee relations. Productivity in organizations is one of the major goals of establishments of such organizations. Productivity can be experienced in terms of profit maximization, the expansion and growth of the organization, and employee satisfaction. Several factors contribute to the productivity of an organization one of them being employee relations (Greene & Lidinsky, 2018). An organization that has excellent employee relations stands a better chance of productivity. Employee relations affect the productivity of an organization directly such that an organization where employees relate well experiencing more production than one with poor employee relations.

The relevance of the study on employee relations and productivity is that organizational productivity is a collective responsibility of all stakeholders in an organization including employees. However, if the relations of employees are not enhanced, there will be several conflicts within the workplaces that may hinder productivity. When employees do not coexist to work together by embracing teamwork, the productivity of the organization goes down (Kapelko et al., 2021). The evidence of the decline of productivity in an organization will be demonstrated by a decline in organizational productivity, poor quality of goods and services, high employee turnover, and low profits. Organizational employees must be encouraged to form strong teams in their workplaces to ensure productivity and profit maximization.

Employee relations are a key element that determines the efficiency in terms of productivity of an organization. An organization that maintains healthy organizational relationships of employees has high chances of succeeding. Good employee relations led to employee satisfaction and productivity. In employee relations, issues such as how to avoid conflict, and solving employee issues and conflicts are explored. Conflict arises in any place where there are two or more people with different backgrounds (Naeem & Ozuem, 2021). The important element is to handle the conflict in a healthy way to ensure that the conflicting parties are satisfied with how the conflict has been handled. This will foster healthy relationships between the employees and ensure productivity.

In conclusion, employees’ relations are very crucial in enhancing organizational productivity and success. A strong employee relation is a major factor for customer satisfaction. Employee relation deals with resolving and avoiding issues and challenges regarding individuals which may arise in a work place. Besides, employee relation can be improved through encouraging of team work, benchmarking internally or externally, and through division of labor. Employee relation can also be improved through various ways such as healthy and safe work environment this can be achieved when the management invests to ensure healthy relationships amongst employees in organizations. Moreover, employee relations can be achieved when all employees are committed.

References

Felstead, A, & Reuschke, D. (2021). A flash in the pan or a permanent change? The growth of homeworking during the pandemic and its effect on employee productivity in the UK. Information Technology & People.

Greene, S., & Lidinsky, A. (2018). From inquiry to academic writing: A practical guide (4th ed.). Bedford/St. Martin's. https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781319071677 

Kapelko, M., Oude Lansink, A., & Guillamon‐Saorin, E. (2021). Corporate social responsibility and dynamic productivity change in the US food and beverage manufacturing industry. Agribusiness, 37(2), 286-305.

Naeem, M., & Ozuem, W. (2021). Exploring the use of social media sites for health professionals' engagement and productivity in public sector hospitals. Employee Relations: The International Journal.