Employer Employee Relationship in Today’s Context

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 maintained throughout the employment. A stronger bond would result in the employee becoming more committed to the organization.  According to CIPD (2017) a positive climate of employee relationships - with high levels of employee participation and commitment can improve business results (CIPD, 2017).



 
Figure 2 – Negotiation Cooperation Discussion (Shutterstock, 2018)

Negotiation

One aspect of employee-employer relationships is concerned with negotiation. Negotiation is a process for resolving conflict between two parties whereby both modify their demands to achieve a mutually acceptable compromise. 

Characteristics of the negotiating process in Employer Employee Relations (Henderson, 2017)
  • The parties are not involved in a one-off negotiation; there is a persistent relationship to be preserved
  • Negotiation is generally about more than one issue
    eg- Pay and some aspect of working conditions
  •  Negotiations are conducted by agents from each side and so agreements reached by them will need authorization from their constituencies
Nature of modern employment relationships

The contract is underpinned by the physiological contract which comprises “certain assumptions and expectations about what employers and employees have to offer and are willing to deliver. (Armstrong, 2017).


References
Armstrong, M. (2017). Armstrong’s Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice 10th ed. London, GBR: Kogan Page


CIPD, (2017) Employee relations: an introduction, [Online] Available at: https://www.cipd.co.uk/knowledge/fundamentals/relations/employees/factsheet [Accessed 23rd June 2018 at 03:20am].

Henderoson, L. (2017) Human Resource Management for MBA Students 2nd ed. UK: CIPD Publications

Guest, D. (2007) HRM and the worker: towards a new psychological contract. Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management, Oxford: Oxford University Press




Comments

  1. worksheersJune 4, 2018 at 9:23 AM

    You have touched employer employee relationship. structured in a good way. Nice Work Upul.

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  2. AnonymousJune 27, 2018 at 1:46 AM

    well structured essay on employer employee relationship. you have forgot to include two citations in to reference list. (CIPD, 2017) & (Kennedy et al., 1984)
    keep it up.

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  3. UnknownJune 30, 2018 at 2:57 AM

    you should give the international examples.

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  4. Dr. Rizvan JaldeenJuly 4, 2018 at 3:52 AM

    This has definitions and some details but its not written in your own words and its not your veiws I want your views and intext citation with references in this essay

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    1. UpulJuly 4, 2018 at 1:25 PM

      I have updated as instructed by you Dr. Jaldeen. Thanks a lot!

      Delete
  5. UnknownJuly 5, 2018 at 8:33 PM

    Now this has become valid article. Good job.

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  6. Sachie HennadigeJuly 6, 2018 at 12:59 AM

    great if you had some example's added. but this informative enough to understand the relationship between the employer & Employee.

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  7. UnknownJuly 6, 2018 at 5:59 PM

    Well organized essay and good content

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  8. NeranjiJuly 6, 2018 at 9:15 PM

    A good essay and interesting to read. Keep up the good work.

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