Employee relations

Employee relations is a term used to describe the relationship between an employer and the employees. It is synonymous with employment relations and is an expansion of the focus of industrial relations beyond blue-collared workers.
This can operate on several levels, ranging from an employer having daily face to face interactions with the employees in the workplace to the employees reacting to actions issued from a CEO they might not have direct contact with. Employee relations and the forms they take can also differ depending on the organization and nationality.
A significant part of the practice of employee relations involves investigating things that happen in the workplace leading to the prevention and resolution of the problems. Areas of interest include productivity, motivation, and morale. This is a subarea of Labour Relations and Industrial Relations. In fact, according to some authors, the area coincides with human resource management, although narrower definitions of the latter exist.

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