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The information is also available in PDF format for you to download Employment Relationships - Guide for Employers [PDF, 36 pages, 332KB]
How to use this handbook
Building successful employment relationships is important and makes good business sense: organisations with good employment relationships tend to be more successful.
When problems emerge, they are best resolved promptly by the parties themselves. That is more likely when relationships are generally good.
Most employers and employees do a good job of preventing problems or resolving them by dealing with each other honestly, openly and with mutual respect.
Yet both employers and employees can feel intimidated when differences arise and may sometimes believe the cards are stacked against them. This can lead to actions that make it more difficult to resolve the problem effectively.
This handbook has a companion resource, How to Hire, which is designed to start the relationship off on a sound footing.
This guide starts where How to Hire finishes – by outlining the information and systems that should be established as the employment relationship begins.
It then looks at good practice in dealing with the issues that most often lead to problems in the employment relationship.
Appendices offer four checklists to help with the most common issues:
- Performance management and dealing with potential problems.
- Managing problems with behaviour or relationships.
- Investigating serious misconduct.
- Restructuring and redundancy.
This handbook finishes with a draft clause on managing employment problems. This draft meets the legal requirements to be included in your employee’s employment agreement.
In employment relations, good process is essential if you want to make good business decisions and reduce the risk of problems ending up in mediation or in court, where you may incur costs for advisors, litigation and settlement.
While the information in this handbook describes the successful approaches of many New Zealand employers, it is only a guide.
This page was last updated on:
31-Mar-2010
and is current.
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