Why manager and employee relationship is important in an orgization

 

Employees who work in toxic environments report feeling depressed and exhausted, according to recent studies. It produces discontent, competition, bad morale, constant bullying, negativity, and nagging from superiors.

as per this information, it's the manager's responsibility to actively plan and execute the activities and maintain a good relationship with employees, which will lead to a boost in productivity in the organization. (Fountain, 2021)

Everyone talks about building relationship with customer, I think you build one with employee first. (Angela Ahrendts -  Senior vice president Apple )

Why is a Manager employee relationship is important ?

According to business.com a manager-employee relationship describe as an organization's efforts to keep employees through strategies that help to maintain open communication in the organization and promote unity.

Here are some of the reasons why a manager-employee connection could help business growth.

1 . Engagement - Workers are willing to more actively engage in organization activities because it has become part of them and now their only concern is growth. Employees will be doing their job to give the best output.

2 . Satisfaction - Employee satisfaction is one of the main function most of the employer's don't understand. This will eliminate misunderstanding among employees.

3. Productivity - When there is good bond with manager and employee they will handle there parts smoothly and this will ultimately results in increase of productivity.

4 . Empowerment - The relationship with managers is a key aspect of empowerment. When an employee has a good relationship with the employer, he gets an opportunity to study and learn the work. Because they're the one who is in future take over the managerial work.

5 . Retention - When an employee understands he has growth in the organization then he won't leave .building good relationship with employees will keep the best employees in the organization.

Strategies to improve employee relationships

Petrova et al. (2020) Stated internal issues such as employee motivation and commitment are some of the most critical things in valuing the organization.

Verlinden (2021), Employee relations are the most crucial factor in the organization because they effect overall performance. 

Here are some practical solutions a company can take to improve employee relationship

1 . Bond of Trust - Trust is one of the most important things in the employer and employee relationship. This means once an employee promises anything for a task he never twists his words and never gossips about a employee with other staff members.

2 . Effective Communication - its one of the important function in the organization the communication is done from top to bottom in a right way it will have huge impact on organization performance.

Communication abilities include the content and expression of social engagement. This includes using acceptable words and phrases, as well as the appropriate tone of voice, facial expressions, body language, and direct eye contact with the audience (Schroth, 2019).

3 . Appreciate your employees - A company should always appreciate employees' hard work to meet up deadlines and goals' simple thank you or a small gift can motivate an employee and it will have good results in companies output.

4 . Reward and inspire - Riggio and Porter (2013) stated as an organization you can set goals to achieve for employees to achieve these employees need to commit to this. an organization should not only pass the goals to employees but rather encourage them to achieve goals. even though it's difficult but achievable then employees will commit to performance management is a two-way process.

5 . Be friendly to employees - It is important to be friendly with your staff. Listen if they have any personal concerns that are not related to their employment, and as an employer, see if you can provide a solution.

6 . Healthy work life balance - Every organization has to concern about employee healthy work life balance and it will have impact on employer employee relationship.

According to Muller (2021),a report from Grand Canyon University report state that family relationship are the most suffered due to poor work life balance.

                Figure 1Statistics of the part of employees’ life has suffered the most due to poor work life

7 . Train and prepare - If an organization has the resources to train its employees, it should provide the training facilities. With the help of training, they can look for new roles available in the organization.

Conclusion

Employer and employee relationship is a very crucial aspect of business success. as an employer when doing business he should provide all the necessary facilities such as a good working environment, fair compensation, and opportunity to grow in return it is the employee's responsibility to do his responsibility as what the employer has expected these two processes done accordingly it will help the organization to achieve its goals.

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