Employee Relations Issues

Maintaining a positive, productive work environment is critical for all managers. You accomplish this by engaging in:

• mentoring and coaching your staff
• regular feedback, including annual performance reviews
• open and honest communication regarding group, unit and university business issues
• change management strategies
• employee engagement and empowerment
• fairly, assertively and promptly addressing workplace challenges and problems.

Addressing declining performance or poor personal skills is an unwelcome but necessary function.  Unacceptable performance and conflicting relationships can quickly impact the productivity and workplace environment for the entire group. 

This section provides guidance on how to address some of the common workplace challenges that managers and staff may encounter. 

• Drug and alcohol testing for groups in which this testing is required.
• Referring employees who are experiencing problems to resources that can help them.
• The progressive discipline process when performance is unacceptable.
• Separation and termination from the university.