Employee Relations
Employee relations refer to the efforts of a company to maintain good relationships with its employees. These relations can exist in multiple directions. On the one hand, it can refer to improving relationships between management and employees. It can also refer to attempts to ensure that employees get along well with each other. The scope of employee relations is broad: It can involve creating minimum legal protections for how employees interact, ensuring that employees develop productive relationships with each other and determining a process to manage employee conflict.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Employee Relations
Employee relations have a significant impact on morale and on the ability of employees to do their jobs well. All businesses—even the smallest ones—will want to maintain good employee relations. Furthermore, maintaining good employee relations ensures employee satisfaction. Employee satisfaction can improve employee retention and ensure that a small business does not constantly hire new employees.
Related terms
- Absence Management
- Furlough
- Onboarding
- Attrition
- Right to Work
- Employee Self-Service (ESS)
- Background Check
- Equity Theory
- Performance Management
- Diversity and Inclusion (D&I)
- Gamification
- Center of Excellence (COE)
- Succession Planning and Management
- Workforce Analytics
- Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)
- Employee Resource Group (ERG)
- Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO)
- 9-Box Model
- Enterprise Applications
- People Analytics
