5 Steps to Improve Your Industrial Relations Climate
Learn what to do to maintain a positive industrial relations climate in your workplace. Good industrial relations, which is essential to healthy and sustainable working lives, assumes an important role, especially in today’s context of blurred boundaries, work overload, complexity, and ambiguity. According to Hammer, Currall, and Stern (1991), Industrial Relations (IR) Climate is the degree to which relations between management, employees and their representatives are seen by participants as mutually trusting, respectful and cooperative.
No organization prospers without a solid industrial relations climate; as such, HR leaders in every country need to, along with their leadership team, identify what aspects of industrial relations are relevant to them and become deliberate about their course of action. Below are five (5) steps you should take to improve the industrial relations climate in your workplace.
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Diagnose: understanding the current situation Strategize: Set priorities to promote a positive industrial relations climate Collaborate: The Union is not the enemy Promote: Open Dialogue Support: Empower (and hold accountable) your People Managers
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