Grievance refers to any real or perceived dissatisfaction or injustice felt by an employee regarding their job or the organization's policies and procedures. Grievances arise when employee expectations are not met and can result in frustration, low productivity, and absenteeism if left unaddressed. An effective grievance management system is therefore an important part of personnel management. It should involve quickly acknowledging and investigating grievances, identifying their causes, deciding on remedies, executing decisions, and reviewing outcomes to resolve issues and prevent future grievances. This helps create an amicable work environment by addressing employee concerns and improving organizational policies.
Grievance refers to any real or perceived dissatisfaction or injustice felt by an employee regarding their job or the organization's policies and procedures. Grievances arise when employee expectations are not met and can result in frustration, low productivity, and absenteeism if left unaddressed. An effective grievance management system is therefore an important part of personnel management. It should involve quickly acknowledging and investigating grievances, identifying their causes, deciding on remedies, executing decisions, and reviewing outcomes to resolve issues and prevent future grievances. This helps create an amicable work environment by addressing employee concerns and improving organizational policies.
Grievance refers to any real or perceived dissatisfaction or injustice felt by an employee regarding their job or the organization's policies and procedures. Grievances arise when employee expectations are not met and can result in frustration, low productivity, and absenteeism if left unaddressed. An effective grievance management system is therefore an important part of personnel management. It should involve quickly acknowledging and investigating grievances, identifying their causes, deciding on remedies, executing decisions, and reviewing outcomes to resolve issues and prevent future grievances. This helps create an amicable work environment by addressing employee concerns and improving organizational policies.
Grievance refers to any real or perceived dissatisfaction or injustice felt by an employee regarding their job or the organization's policies and procedures. Grievances arise when employee expectations are not met and can result in frustration, low productivity, and absenteeism if left unaddressed. An effective grievance management system is therefore an important part of personnel management. It should involve quickly acknowledging and investigating grievances, identifying their causes, deciding on remedies, executing decisions, and reviewing outcomes to resolve issues and prevent future grievances. This helps create an amicable work environment by addressing employee concerns and improving organizational policies.
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Grievance System
Grievance may be any geneuine or imaginary feeling of dissatisfaction or injustice
which an employee experiences about his job and its nature, about the management policies and procedures. It must be expressed by the employee and brought to the notice of the management and the organization. Grienvances take the form of collective disputes when they are not resolved. Also they will lower the morale and efficiency of the employees. Unattended Grievances result in frustration, dissatisfaction, low productivity, lack of interest in work absenteeism, etc. In short, griecabce arises when employees expectations are not fulfilled from the organization as a result of which a feeling of discontentment and dissatisfaction arises, this dissatifaction must crop up from the employment issues and not from personal issues
Grievance may result: from the following factors
A. Improper working conditions such as strict production standards, unsafe
workplace, bad relation with managers, workplace is far away from home, etc. B. Irrational management policies such as overtime, transfers, demotions, inappropriate salary structure, etc. C. Violation of organizational rules and practices. D. The manager should immediately identify all grievances and must take appropriate stes to eliminate the causes of such grievances so that the employees remain loyal and commited to their work. Effective grienvance management is essential part of personnel managament.
How to Effectively Manage Grievance
1. Quick action- As soon as the grievance arises, it should be identified and resolved.Training must be given to the managers to effectively and timely manage a grievance on the employees and their performance. 2. Acknowledging grievance- The manager must acknowlegde the grievance put forward by the employee as manifestation of true and real feelings of the employees. Acknowledgement by the manager implies that the manager is eager to look into the complaint impartially and without any bias. This will create an environment conducive to the work with instances of grievance reduced. 3. Gathering facts- The manager should gather appropriate abd sufficient facts explaining the grievance's nature. A record of such facts must be maintained so that these can be used in later stage of grievance management. 4. Examining the causes of grievance- The actual cause of grievance should be indentified. Accordingly remedial actions should be taken to prevent repetition of the grievance. 5. Making a Desicion- After identifying the causes of grievance, alternative course of actions should be thought of to manage the grievance. The effect of each course of action on the existing and future management policies and procedure should be analyzed and accordingly decision should be taken by the manager. 6. Execution and review- The manager should be execute the decision quickly, ignoring the fact, that it may or may not hurt employees concerned. After implementing the decision, a follow-up must be there to ensure that the grievance has been resolved completly and adequately.
An effective grievance procedure ensure an amiable work environment because it
redresses the grievance to mutual satisfaction of both the employees and the managers. It also helps the management to frame policies and procedured acceptable to the employees. It becames an effective medium for the emloyees to express the feelings, discontent and dissatisfaction openly and formally.