Contemporary Human Resource Management by Upul Attanayake

Figure 1 - Employer Employee Relationship (JDI, 2017) Modern HR management treats employee as the most valuable asset of the organizations. The managers or the employers utilize this asset to the benefit of the organization. This requires building a strong connection or relationship between the two parties.   Employee-Employer relationship is concerned with the methodologies and techniques adopted by employer to deal with employees either jointly over their trade unions or individually (Armstrong, 2017). According to Guest (2007) employer-employee relationship is something concerned with: “The insights of both parties to the employment relationship, organization and individual, of the mutual promises and responsibilities implicit in that relationship”. From above definitions we can identify that there is a psychological contract between the two parties. It is some kind of an informal bond between employer and employee based on mutual respect. This bond must be main

Figure 1 – Learning & Development (Logran, 2016) According to Armstrong (2011) Learning and Development strategies ‘are concerned with developing a learning culture, promoting organisational learning and providing for individual learning’. Also Armstrong (2011) describes some of the viewpoints behind the strategy; ‘Long term capacity- building’ rather than ‘short term fixes’ Focus on ‘Learning’ rather than ‘Training’ Focus on ‘Empowerment’ rather than ‘Supervision’ ‘Self-Management’ rather than ‘Instruction’ Encouraging ‘Discretionary Learning’ Once learning and development strategies take part in the strategic plan of any organisation it ensures that people in the organization acquire and develop the knowledge, skills and competencies. By doing this organisation get the benefit of it's people being effectively on the job and for their own career advancement. (Armstrong, 2009) Related terms with var