HRMT20024 - Employee Relations Challenges: An In-Depth Analysis

This annotated bibliography addresses employee relations challenges by analyzing two articles: one focusing on work-life balance and the other on employee empowerment. The work-life balance article highlights the importance of balancing employee well-being with organizational productivity, noting that organizations often struggle to quantify data to measure the impact of work-life balance initiatives. Key factors influencing work-life balance include project assignments, deadlines, organizational culture, and data collection methods. The employee empowerment article examines how empowering leadership can enhance employee performance, satisfaction, and commitment. While empowerment can foster creativity and coordination, it also presents challenges, as some employees may experience increased stress from added responsibilities. Cultural differences also play a role in the effectiveness of empowerment strategies. The bibliography concludes that neither work-life balance nor employee empowerment alone is a perfect solution for strengthening employee relations; instead, both methods can be effective when implemented strategically with tailored programs.

HRMT20024
ASSESSMENT 1
WEEK 6
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS CHALLENGES
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REFERENCES OF YOUR TWO ARTICLES
• Article 1: Sen, C., & Bakht, F. (2013). Work/life balance: Challenges and
solutions. Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, 4(3), 605.
• Article 2: Lee, A., Willis, S., & Tian, A. (2018). When Empowering
Employees Works, and When It Doesn’t. Hbr.org. Retrieved 6 April
2018, from https://hbr.org/2018/03/when-empowering-employees-
works-and-when-it-doesnt

ARTICLE 1: WORK/LIFE BALANCE AND
EMPLOYEE RELATION
• Objective:
• To identify the impact of Work-life balance on employee relation
• To identify the potential challenges that human resource professionals are facing regarding work-life balance
• To recommend potential solutions for ensuring better employee relation through work-life balance
• Method:
• Secondary data collection: Data collected from historical papers such as articles, books, newspaper and
magazine
• Deductive approach: Potential solutions were provided at the end after analysing literature and relevant theories
• Positivism research philosophy: Helped in focusing on research objectives and collect evidence based data to
reach conclusion

ARTICLE 1: WORK/LIFE BALANCE AND
EMPLOYEE RELATION
• Argument
• Organizations have understood the importance of strengthening
employee relations through work-life balance
• However in order to maintain higher productivity with limited
resources work-life balance is affected
• Conclusion
• Organizations are failing to quantify data in order to measure
employee relation
• Factors such as assigning projects, setting deadline, collecting
data and developing organizational culture are the main elements
that construct work-life balance and develop employee relation

ARTICLE 2: EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT AND
EMPLOYEE RELATION
• Objective:
• To identify the importance of employee empowerment on enhancing employee performance,
satisfaction and commitment
• To identify the challenges that employers face while creating employee empowerment strategies
• To analyse the impact of empowering leadership on employee motivation
• Method:
• Data collected from 105 empirical articles
• Data consisted of 30,000 employees from 30 countries
• Statistical data analysis done through meta-analysis

ARTICLE 2: EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT AND
EMPLOYEE RELATION
• Argument:
• Empowering leaders were found to retain creative employees
along with mutual coordination among themselves
• Leaders were found to face challenges from certain
employees who failed to deal with empowerment because
new responsibilities created more stress among them
• Conclusion:
• Some employees definitely respond better than others while
empowerment
• Cultural differences between eastern and western countries
indicated the magnitude of empowerment impact and its
considerable challenges in employee relation

CONTRIBUTION OF ARTICLES TO THE TOPIC
• Article 1 highlighted the importance of work-life balance and its contribution towards
strengthening employee relation
• Article 2 highlighted the importance of employee empowerment on enhancing
employee relation
• Considering the topic Employee Relations Challenges, it can be said that neither work-
life balance nor employee empowerment can be considered as the best way for
strengthening relationship among human resource
• However, as all talent management strategies have selective positive outcomes,
similarly both the methods can be made effective if strategic programs are
implemented