The Importance Of Employee Voice

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First area that I would like to suggest is “Employee Voice”, because nowadays, where flexibility, creativity and innovation are key issues for company, the communication throughout the whole organization have become more essential (Buyens , and Vos, 2001). Moreover, the relationship between employer and employees of the company is weak because they lack of two way communication. Employee voice is the method that employers communicating as well as receiving and listening to communication from employee. Employee comments and feedback intended to develop organizational functioning are important to performance, it may provide effectiveness operation to the company if the top managers also no know the information from the bottom (Morrison & Milliken, 2000). Understanding employees via employee voice can help managers detect work-related problems, opportunities, and solutions, thus they can facilitate organization innovation and ready to respond unexpected circumstances (Tangirala, and Ramanujam, 2008). However, it is important for company to understand what the potentially valuable information that company should adopted (Detert, and Burris, 2007). Employee voice covers the indirect mechanisms for participation associated with formal employee relation mechanisms, such as trade unions or consultative committees, these mechanisms allow employees or their representatives to express their dissatisfactions, demands for changes, and reactions to management’s plans or initiatives. Moreover employee voice is also associated with High-performance work systems and these are a key to have strong beneficial impacts on individual and organizational performance (Wood, and Menezes, 2011). In high performance workplace with a greater voice of employee...

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..., ranging from 19 to 120 percent, depending on the complexity (Hunter, Schmidt, and Judiesch, 1990).
In summary, TRICAN Company is confronting with unhappiness in work environmental, cross culture and turnover problems. All of these problems may be solved if employees have an opportunity to speak up and all employers have willingness to listen. Employees’ free speech can help employers to understand their motivation, satisfaction and interest levels, and it can also encourages a loyalty, and commitment from employees. In addition, the companies who do the best job in talent management practices have competitive advantages and are more prepared than their competitors to compete in the global economy and capitalize quickly on new opportunities. For all of these reasons, Employee Voice and Talent Management are the 2 area of HRM that I would like to give priority to.

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