Assignment: Managing Employee Relation
Overview
Create a 12-18-slide PowerPoint presentation describing HR best practices for managing employee relations.
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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o Explore best practices that effectively manage workplace disputes.
Competency 5: Examine the impact of labor unions on employee-employer relationships.
o Examine best practices that improve relationships between unions and employees.
Competency 6: Communicate professionally with all stakeholders.
o Describe communication strategies for explaining and implementing workplace best practices.
o 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.
Suggested Resources
The resources provided here are optional and support the assessment. They provide helpful information about the topics. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you.
PowerPoint Presentation
You may review the following:
• Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PPTX].
Employee Relations
You may read the following:
• Castanheira, F., & Story, J. (2016). Making good things last longer: The role of savoring on the relationship between HRM and positive employee outcomes. Human Resource Management, 55(6), 985-1000.
• Guest, D. E. (2017). Human resource management and employee well-being: Towards a new analytic framework. Human Resource Management Journal, 27(1), 22-38.
• Scott, M. (2017). Protect your business: The cost of employment lawsuits and how to avoid them. Smart Business Cleveland, 29(1), 76.
• Tews, M. J., Michel, J., Xu, S., &Drost, A. J. (2015). Workplace fun matters . . . but what else?. Employee Relations, 37(2), 248-267.
• Townsend, K., Wilkinson, A., & Burgess, J. (2014). Routes to partial success: Collaborative employment relations and employee engagement. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 25(6), 915-930.
• Valizade, D., Ogbonnaya, C., Tregaskis, O., & Forde, C. (2016). A mutual gains perspective on workplace partnership: Employee outcomes and the mediating role of the employment relations climate. Human Resource Management Journal, 26(3), 351-368.
Instructions
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.
o Identify five HR practices, including one ADR technique and one labor relations practice.
o 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.
o How do these practices promote HR as a strategic employee relations partner? 
Describe communication strategies for explaining and implementing workplace best practices.
o What messages could reflect an organization's commitment to positive employee relations?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.