{"id":2794,"date":"2014-05-13T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2024-08-30T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:30:41","slug":"healthy-employee-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/healthy-employee-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Tips for Healthy Employee Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1584\" alt=\"healthy employee relations\" src=\"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock_000001366891Medium-300x197.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"177\" \/>Maintaining healthy employee relations is crucial for your company&#8217;s success. In general, employee relations involve preventing and resolving issues which might stem from or influence the work environment. Effective employee relations lead to a more motivated and productive workforce that can greatly impact the quality of products and services, as well as the levels of sales and customer retention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 10 Employee Relations Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>Ensure the workplace has an open door policy where employees are free from retaliation for bringing forth &#8220;good faith&#8221; complaints and suggestions.<\/li>\n<li>Train management staff in how to listen and communicate with employees and openly address concerns.<\/li>\n<li>Review applications of policies, discipline and performance management to make sure that there is consistent treatment of employees to avoid complaints of discriminatory practices and\/or inconsistent treatment.<\/li>\n<li>Conduct appropriate investigations when warranted based on good faith complaints from employees related to discrimination, harassment, inconsistent applications of discipline and\/or policies and practices.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure that employees are given due process or an opportunity to tell their side of the story prior to handing out discipline or corrective action.<\/li>\n<li>Implement an Employee Handbook that clearly communicates workplace rules, standards of conduct, and dispute resolution processes.<\/li>\n<li>Establish a progressive disciplinary system and apply disciplinary policies consistently among employees.<\/li>\n<li>Develop and implement a formal performance evaluation process. Also, encourage all managers to provide informal feedback on an ongoing basis to employees.<\/li>\n<li>Maintain a zero-tolerance policy for Harassment, Discrimination, and Workplace Violence.<\/li>\n<li>Intervene in employee conflict early to avoid unnecessary escalation and reduce workplace stress.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For more information, please <a title=\"Contact GTM\" href=\"\/business\/contact-gtm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact<\/a> GTM Payroll Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining healthy employee relations is crucial for your company&#8217;s success. In general, employee relations involve preventing and resolving issues which might stem from or influence the work environment. Effective employee relations lead to a more motivated and productive workforce that can greatly impact the quality of products and services, as well as the levels of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[11,18,19,10],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consulting-services","tag-business-payroll","tag-employer-policies","tag-human-resources","tag-small-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9587,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions\/9587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}