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Positive employee relations strategies

Positive employee relations strategies

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Positive employee relations strategies

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- Have you ever heard a company promote that they have an open-door policy? This is an example of a positive employee relations strategy. An open-door policy signifies that the company supports open and honest dialogue. Positive employee relations programs can help reduce the need for disciplinary action, reduce absenteeism, improve retention, improve employee and customer satisfaction, and avoid union formation. Participative management, work teams, and task forces represent other positive employee relations strategies. Participative management techniques include employees in the decisions that affect their work. Work teams and task forces are used to improve employee relations by allowing employees and work teams to operate in a self-directed manner, making decisions about their work based on consensus. A taskforce is a temporary team that is gathered for a specific reason. For example, if a school has seen an uptick in disciplinary issues in the lunchroom, a task force may be…

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