According to the International Labour Organisation the employment relationship is defined as the legal link between employers and employees. The relationship exists when a person performs work or services under certain conditions in return for remuneration.
For an organisation to be successful and continue to maintain its success, all persons involved in the organisation must strive to ensure that the employment relationship remains harmonious. The employee performs the work that he is hired to do and that he will, in return, receive a fair wage.
Organisational justice theory focuses on the perception of fairness of the treatment of employees and their feelings and views of their own treatment within the organisation.
There have been many …show more content…
In recent years, the term team-work has been introduced to the workplace and employees are asked to work as part of a team. Being a team player is important. With team work, trust between co-workers becomes an integral part of the peer to peer workplace relationship. There is a need to trust that the other members of the team will carry out their work to ensure the team completes their work in a timely manner. There must also be trust in the line manager, that he or she will treat everyone on the team in the same manner. The team must feel that if one person is not pulling their weight then the line manager must be strong enough to ensure that this is dealt with in a timely manner. It would not be just of the line manager to ignore the issue and expect the other members of the team to carry the ‘freeloader’ without compensation in their pay. The other side of this is that employees must do their work in accordance with the job requirements. To not do so would be unfair to the employer and to the other team members to ensure the co-dependency between the team does not break …show more content…
A high level of job satisfaction would be a strong indicator of fairness existing with the workplace. Maintaining a high level of satisfaction would prove that efforts to maintain fairness are working. Positive job satisfaction within an organisation can prove psychologically beneficial with employees happy to come to work and carry out their duties. This is incredibly important for the morale of a company and more than likely lead to loyalty and low turnover of staff. For larger organisations with shareholders these positive statistics would be very welcome indeed.
From a management perspective, the collective perception of justice amongst employees is important. These perceptions can have a positive or negative economic impact on the organisation. The positive impact would ensure greater productivity whilst the negative may lead to counterproductive activities including theft, insurance claims against the employer or even
For an organisation to be successful and continue to maintain its success, all persons involved in the organisation must strive to ensure that the employment relationship remains harmonious. The employee performs the work that he is hired to do and that he will, in return, receive a fair wage.
Organisational justice theory focuses on the perception of fairness of the treatment of employees and their feelings and views of their own treatment within the organisation.
There have been many …show more content…
In recent years, the term team-work has been introduced to the workplace and employees are asked to work as part of a team. Being a team player is important. With team work, trust between co-workers becomes an integral part of the peer to peer workplace relationship. There is a need to trust that the other members of the team will carry out their work to ensure the team completes their work in a timely manner. There must also be trust in the line manager, that he or she will treat everyone on the team in the same manner. The team must feel that if one person is not pulling their weight then the line manager must be strong enough to ensure that this is dealt with in a timely manner. It would not be just of the line manager to ignore the issue and expect the other members of the team to carry the ‘freeloader’ without compensation in their pay. The other side of this is that employees must do their work in accordance with the job requirements. To not do so would be unfair to the employer and to the other team members to ensure the co-dependency between the team does not break …show more content…
A high level of job satisfaction would be a strong indicator of fairness existing with the workplace. Maintaining a high level of satisfaction would prove that efforts to maintain fairness are working. Positive job satisfaction within an organisation can prove psychologically beneficial with employees happy to come to work and carry out their duties. This is incredibly important for the morale of a company and more than likely lead to loyalty and low turnover of staff. For larger organisations with shareholders these positive statistics would be very welcome indeed.
From a management perspective, the collective perception of justice amongst employees is important. These perceptions can have a positive or negative economic impact on the organisation. The positive impact would ensure greater productivity whilst the negative may lead to counterproductive activities including theft, insurance claims against the employer or even