Employee Communication

Employee Communication

Difference between Employee Participation and Involvement

Employee participation and employee involvement although may sound similar there is a distinct difference between the two. Employee participation engages employees in sharing of something between one another and employers. This could be ideas during meetings or having a say in decisions. However employee involvement is slightly different because it is more physical as they would be doing something rather than putting forward ideas. Employee involvement also makes an employee more committed to the organisations work and value.

How organisations can involve employees in decision making

Heathfield, S. (2011) suggests that three ways in which organisations can get employees can be achieved by rewards, consulting and delegate.

Rewards would be a popular way to get employees involved as they would then gain something from it. For example if a discussion was happening and an employee contributed useful information which can help the employers make a final decision then that employee can be rewards by financial or non financial perks.

Consulting is where the supervisor or leader making the decision would talk to its staff about the decision that is going to be made to get the input, however the person making the decision would always have the final say on what the final decision would be.

Delegate which is where the manager  would leave the decision to its staff, this would motivate the employees to get involved as it is showing the employees that they are being trusted and valued within the organisation.

Social Networking

Many businesses now use social networking sites to involve their staff as well as give out information to current and potential employees. Social networking is a very useful tool which can be used as social networking is becoming increasingly popular. Sites such as Facebook and twitter can be used as well as many others. Businesses use social networking sites to create their own page and this can show the business how many people like the business for example on Facebook people generally click the like button on the businesses page should they like the business and this can indicate how many followers the business has.

Putting on information on business sites can allow customers as well as potential employees or current employees all to be able to see news and information about the company whether it be about changes, new products or other details that may be relevant to reveal.

On many of these social networking sites businesses can create groups so that the business can add employees to it to give out information which is for people who work for the organisation.  Social networking for businesses can be helpful and majority of the organisations employees are like to be using them already and having other colleagues as friends which shows strong bonds between employees and therefore it is easy to target employees as groups.

For potential employees social networking sites were used to do background checks which found out information about potential employees by information they have put about themselves on their page and comparing them to what they may have said at an interview. Also pictures they have been part of and posted to their social networking site may also tell business what the potential employee is like. However many court cases have happened due to people thinking that they are invading their privacy.

Reference List

Laurie J. Mullins (2010) Management & organisational behaviour. 9th ed. Essex: Pearson Education Limited

Heathfield, S. (2011) Employee Involvement [Online] Available from: http://humanresources.about.com/od/glossarye/a/employee_inv.htm [Accessed 28^th April 2011]