Is there Unionized Environment of the Organization?

 

When describing the unionized workplace, it is the process of togetherness of workers to achieve their rights and needs from the organization and other relevant parties. A union is a middle person to an organization and employees.

How Unionized Environment Benefits to the organization and employees

When describing the advantages of a unionized environment there are some benefits to both employees and the organization. Those are often identified as below,

•                  A unionized workplace may be a stable workplace and it's good for employees, therefore the organization too

•                  Members of the union typically have greater job security than nonunion workers

•                  Union workers have more benefits than nonunion workers

•                  Stability is also higher than other employees. Turnover is reduced and reduce the hiring recruiting and training cost of the organization

•                  Trade unions have members and its strength to employee

•                  Improve employee conditions

•                  Improve workplace environment

•                  Improve benefits to the workers with discussion employers

•                  Improve job satisfaction

•                  Advice and support to the workers

When describe the unions sometimes these are making hostile environment within the organization. It is making conflict within the organization. This is the disadvantage side of the unions within the organization. When describe Sri Lanka most of the time union can be seen in government organizations than privet organizations. As below can be identify how to handle and avoid a hostile environment within the organization. In here human resource department of the organization has big role.

 How to handling and avoiding a hostile environment

When describing the hostile work environment is can describes some of the negative work of one employee it will lead to disturbing work of another employee. This environment leads to prepare a variety of targets or challenges of the organization and employees who are doing their jobs well. (Dinome& Barras, n.d.)

As below can be identifying some issues and how they can be handled and avoiding a hostile environment within the organization.

Identified Issue	How to handle and avoid it
·       Sourcing and retention of labour	To implement a good system to recruit the employees and develop programmes to attract the employees to the organization
·       Conflict among labour groups are significant challenges	Develop programmes to develop the team culture and team works within the organization
·       Absenteeism	Offer some motivational factors to come to employees to work       Ex: Incentives based on the working days of employees
·       Have Different payment methods	Establish common methods based on the employee categories to do the payments
·       Mutual understanding between managers and employee’s poor	Develop a system to develop the employee relationship
·       Retention rate is not healthy	To do a investigate what is the reasons for this issue and get necessary actions based on the results of the investigation
·       Conflict reported during working hours and off working hours	Make arrange a good system to reported working hours
·       Issues of organizational structure	To identify all the problems relating to the organization structure and rearrange the structure based on the culture and system of the organization
·       Poor communication	Develop proper communication method within the organization Ex: Notice board, email system, update all information in company websites, Announcements

 

List of References

Dinome, J., & Barras, J. (n.d.). Union Avoidance Tips & Strategies: Do’s and Don’ts. https://www.reedsmith.com/files/uploads/Documents/Union_Avoidance_Tips__Strategies__Dos_and_Don_ts.pdf