✔️ [Org] Employee Relations Flashcards
HR’s role in policies and procedures
- Supports the development of policies by the organization’s leaders. Some policies, such as discipline and discharge, are driven by the organization’s culture, and the role of HR may be to help leaders apply the organization’s values to employment issues and determine policy positions.
- Facilitates development of procedures by other departments. Some departments assume the responsibility for many of their own department-level policies and procedures, while others will request HR support to develop consistent and thorough policies and procedures.
- Supports communication of policies throughout the organization. HR needs to ensure that managers are clear about the intent and/or specific terms of the policies and how to communicate and enforce them. As warranted, HR should provide related training for managers.
- Managers and supervisors should receive training on the organization’s policies and procedures, especially regarding the handling of conflict and discipline and development opportunities—perhaps by being mentored by experienced managers and supervisors.
Various forms of collective employee concerted activities taken to protest work conditions or employer actions.
Collective employee actions intend to interfere with an employer’s ability to fulfill its commercial interests.
Lockouts happen when the employer shuts down it’s operations to prevent employees from working
Industrial Action
Process that provides an orderly way to resolve the inevitable differences of opinion in regard to the union contract that develop during the life of the agreement.
Orderly way to resolve differences of opinion.
Grievance Procedure
Group of workers who coordinate their activities to achieve common goals in their relationship with an employer or group of employers; also called labor union.
Members elect representatives to interact with management. In some countries, trade unions may include managers and professionals as well as skilled and unskilled workers.
Labor Union or Trade Union
Agreement that requires specific contractors to accept certain conditions in project contracts, such as paying a fair wage and contributing to health insurance, pension, and training funds.
Project Labor Agreement: (PLA)
violation of the employee rights as defined in a country’s labor statues
Unfair Labor Practice (ULP)
Employees desire for increased wages and better benefits and working conditions
Economic Grievances
Form of corrective discipline that implements increasingly severe penalties for employees. Focuses on positive punishment
Constructive discipline aka progressive discipline
negative punishment is removing something of value (no promo)
Situation in which workers slow processes by performing tasks exactly to specifications or according to job or task descriptions.
Work-to-rule
Refusal by workers to work; also refusal by workers to leave their workstations, making it impossible for the employer to use replacement workers.
Sit down strike
Method of nonbinding dispute resolution by which a neutral third party tries to help disputing parties reach a mutually agreeable decision; also called conciliation.
Mediation
Method of dispute resolution by which disputing parties agree to be bound by the decision of one or more impartial persons to whom they submit their dispute for final determination.
Arbitration
Method of dispute resolution by which disputing parties agree to be bound by the decision of one or more impartial persons to whom they submit their dispute for final determination.
Arbitration
X is the right of workers to join (or not join) an organization of their choosing without prior authorization by their employer.
an individual worker to unite with other workers to promote desired employment conditions as a group?
Freedom of association
refers to the collaboration of governments, employers, and unions in developing contracts and resolving disputes. This is a common feature in some countries and an occasional feature in others
Tripartism