Managing Employee Relations

Create a 12-18 slide PowerPoint presentation describing HR best practices for managing employee relations.

Introduction

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Define the employee relations function of an organization and human resources’ role in its development.
  • Identify HR’s role in building a diverse and inclusive workplace environment.
• Competency 2: Analyze human resource practices that promote positive employee relations and legal compliance.
  • Describe best practices that promote positive employee relations and legal compliance.
• Competency 3: Explain the components of managing employee performance for organizational and personal success.
  • Explain cultural, demographic, and social impacts on workplace performance management.
• Competency 4: Describe the grievance process, dispute resolution options, and protection of employees from retaliation.
  • Explore best practices that effectively manage workplace disputes.
• Competency 5: Examine the impact of labor unions on employee-employer relationships.
  • Examine best practices that improve relationships between unions and employees.
• Competency 6: Communicate professionally with all stakeholders.
  • Describe communication strategies for explaining and implementing workplace best practices.
  • Write in a clear, well-organized manner with the required number of resources to support a central idea, with no technical writing errors, as expected of a business professional.

For this assessment, examine common HR practices affecting employee relations and explain how you will apply them to your current organization. If you are not currently employed, select a former employer and adapt those practices to that organization. Include the following in your PowerPoint presentation, using detailed presenter notes:

• Describe best practices that promote positive employee relations and legal compliance.
  • Identify five HR practices, including one ADR technique and one labor relations practice.
  • Identify employment laws and regulations that may impact the best practices.
• Identify HR’s role in building a diverse and inclusive workplace environment.
• Explain cultural, demographic, and social impacts on performance management.
• Explore best practices that effectively manage workplace disputes.
• Examine best practices that improve relationships between unions and employees.
  • How do these practices promote HR as a strategic employee relations partner?
• Describe communication strategies for explaining and implementing workplace best practices.
  • What messages could reflect an organization’s commitment to positive employee relations?

Additional Requirements

Your assessment should meet the following requirements:

• Length: 12–18 PowerPoint slides, including title and reference slides.
  • Select a PowerPoint slide template appropriate for a professional presentation.
  • Include the content of the slides as well as the supporting narrative in the speaker’s notes.
  • Be sure slide content supports your main points and ideas.
  • Do not overbuild your slides; information that supports what you are saying should appear at the lower portion of each slide as notes.
  • Note: Save your finished PowerPoint presentation in Notes view as a PDF. Instead of File>Save As, use File>Print>Adobe PDF. Look for the Settings dropdown menu to change it from slides to Notes Pages. Be sure you can see both the slides and your notes in the preview of your saved file. Upload only the PDF to this assessment.
• Written communication: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and professional. Your writing should be:
  • Concise and logically organized.
  • Free of errors in grammar and mechanics.
• Validation and support: Use 5–6 relevant and credible scholarly or professional resources to support your work.
• APA formatting: Format all citations and references in accordance with current APA guidelines.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Define the employee relations function of an organization and human resources’ role in its development.
  • Identify HR’s role in building a diverse and inclusive workplace environment.
• Competency 2: Analyze human resource practices that promote positive employee relations and legal compliance.
  • Describe best practices that promote positive employee relations and legal compliance.
• Competency 3: Explain the components of managing employee performance for organizational and personal success.
  • Explain cultural, demographic, and social impacts on workplace performance management.
• Competency 4: Describe the grievance process, dispute resolution options, and protection of employees from retaliation.
  • Explore best practices that effectively manage workplace disputes.
• Competency 5: Examine the impact of labor unions on employee-employer relationships.
  • Examine best practices that improve relationships between unions and employees.
• Competency 6: Communicate professionally with all stakeholders.
  • Describe communication strategies for explaining and implementing workplace best practices.
  • Write in a clear, well-organized manner with the required number of resources to support a central idea, with no technical writing errors, as expected of a business professional.