(Solution) 5HR01 AC 1.1 Differentiate between employee involvement and employee participation and how they build relationships
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Employees involvement and participation
These are concepts which identify the scope in which employees relations are enhanced with a sole intention of improving commitment and also successful organisation operations. In some sources such as CIPD (2024), both concepts are noted as interrelated with similar meanings albeit the scope of employees functions being varying.
Employee involvement– This concept evidence the set of strategies under the management encouraging the employees on giving their insights on issues affecting them in their workplace and granting two-way feedback as part of their engagements in a series of discussion. This is different from employees participation since the management holds the overall power in the process. Also, in the merging public organisation, the examples include suggestion schemes and surveys and team meetings regularly implemented.
Employees participation– The systematic strategy is used for enabling staff in achieving an active contribution to organisation making decisions. It is different from the employees involvement as both the employees and management have equal responsibility in informing the decision making. According to CIPD (2024a), for merging organisation, the examples of these include collective bargaining strategies, joint consultations and employees boards.
Build strong and positive working relationships (Employee Involvement)……
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