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Are you doing enough to leverage tech for employee relations?

HRExecutive

It may not be surprising that during 2020, social and political conflict —along with ongoing challenges due to COVID-19—helped position the employee relations (ER) function as a vital factor in shaping positive employee experiences. million employees globally, including 2.3 million employees in the U.S.

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7 Strategies to Improve Your Organization’s Employee Relations

DecisionWise

Most leaders intuitively understand the importance of building strong employee relations, whether that is to help retain current talent or to create an employee value proposition that attracts others to join your organization. But what exactly do we mean by the term “employee relations”?

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7 Toxic Factors That Damage Employee Relations

6Q

Additionally, Human Resource managers spend 24% of their time resolving employee relations disputes. Why are employee relations issues so prevalent and how can they be improved? The ultimate goal is to cultivate stronger and healthier employee relations and a happy workplace that runs efficiently and effectively.

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What is employee relations? Beyond the basics of HR

Business Management Daily

Employee relations is a buzzword that is thrown around a lot within human resources and people management discussions, but do you truly know what it means? Many people confuse employee relations with general HR, but it’s actually a bit different. What is employee relations ?

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This Employee Relations Department redeemed itself (sort of).

The Employer Handbook

My “muse” was an Employee Relations Department that caught the attention of the EEOC for its alleged poor handling of an employee’s complaints of sexual harassment. Ultimately, the defendant prevailed — a measure of redemption for the Employee Relations Department.

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Employee Relations Trends and Technology for 2024

LaborSoft

Fortunately, labor and employee relations software has been evolving and improving as well. 5 Must-Have Features For Your HR Labor and Employee Management Software In 2024 1. Robust analytics for continuous improvement Finally, it's not enough to collect employee data - you need to be able to work with it!

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How to hone managerial ethics in employee relations

Business Management Daily

the ethical standard), thereby providing publicly traded companies with far more discretion and latitude in interpreting employee misconduct, managerial “bad acts” and the concept of acting outside the course and scope of any leader’s managerial authority. In doing so, SOX went far beyond the “letter” of the law (i.e.,