Managing Employee Disputes and Maintaining Productivity

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Discussion Post 1

How should the manager handle the situation? Be specific and provide step- by- step
instructions.
Such situation can be handled by making certain number of changes in existing work culture and
make the relevant changes appropriate to all the employees working within the organization.
First of all, the manager should conduct a meeting with such employee who is disturbed with
such open culture of the company. In the next step he will identify the problem faced by her
while working with other peers (O’Sullivan, et. al., 2018, para. 7). In the next step, there will be
made the arrangements to solve her work related problem and there will be provided a calm
workstation where she can be able to work with due concentration. In order to solve the problem
of not getting along with some peers, there must be conducted the team meetings from time to
time in order to solve the conflicts among those employees. She must also be assigned the work
role for which she is competent and possess the skills.
Which roles within Functions Approach would be most relevant and essential for the
manager in this situation? Justify your response. Provide specific examples to support your
response.
The essence of the functional approach used for the management of the business organization
activities are viewed as the set of different functions which are performed in order to achieved
the objectives. The role of human resource manager is the most effective role within the
functional approach is most relevant and essential for the manager in the given case because he is
responsible to solve the problems of employees and sort out the conflict arising at the workplace.
It is the role of a HR manager to keep the employees satisfied and manage the workplace
effectively. For instance, the HR managers in all the organizations take the responsibilities to
solve the problems of employees (Nankervis, et. al., 2016, para. 4).

References
 Nankervis, A. R., Baird, M., Coffey, J., & Shields, J. (2016). Human resource
management: strategy and practice. Cengage AU.
 O’Sullivan, P. B., Caneiro, J. P., O’Keeffe, M., Smith, A., Dankaerts, W., Fersum, K., &
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