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Your Growth, Our Mission

Effective Employee Relations (ER): Policy, Motivation, Grievances & Discipline
Course Description
Creating and sustaining a positive work environment is a core responsibility of HR. Through proactive initiatives, HR practitioners can guide managers and work with employees on addressing employee issues and concerns. This highly interactive course delivers a practice-based approach for managing employee relations within your organization. The course is designed to develop increased productivity and motivation through the application of best practice in the way that employees are treated by the organization. It will enable the creation of a working environment in which all staff are able to contribute their full potential. This will involve creating a supportive and trusting climate at work and ensuring that individual and collective ER issues are handled positively and sensitively.

The main features of the course are:

  • Creating a close working relationship between ER and the rest of the organization
  • Establishing the policies that create an effective ER function
  • Matching policies to the practices that support them
  • Addressing how to get the best from people
  • The effect of employee relations on organizational culture
  • Developing management-employee dialogue
  • Ensuring compliance with progressive discipline policies
  • Using coaching and counseling to assist line managers
  • Promoting positive employee relations
  • Managing workplace conflicts
  • Recognizing and responding to work and family concerns​

The main features of the course are:

  • Creating a close working relationship between ER and the rest of the organization
  • Establishing the policies that create an effective ER function
  • Matching policies to the practices that support them
  • Addressing how to get the best from people
  • The effect of employee relations on organizational culture
  • Developing management-employee dialogue
  • Ensuring compliance with progressive discipline policies
  • Using coaching and counseling to assist line managers
  • Promoting positive employee relations
  • Managing workplace conflicts
  • Recognizing and responding to work and family concerns​

Employee Relations Specialists, HR and Personnel Professionals, Line Managers, Supervisors and Team Leaders, Contracts and Legal Personnel, Employee Relations Coordinators and Officers, Training & Development Staff, Managers and Personnel with responsibility for staff who wishes to understand the latest developments in the field of Employee Relations (ER).

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

  • Lectures
  • Workshop & Work Presentation
  • Case Studies and Practical Exercise
  • Videos and General Discussions

The Core Role of Employee Relations

  • The context
  • Change management
  • ER and Nationalization
  • Understanding the Rationale of ER
  • The Core Role of ER
  • The distinction between the role of ER and the role of the manager
  • The Impact on Policies and Procedures
  • Change agent and employee champion
  • The Psychological contract

The ER Function in Practice

  • Communications
  • Team briefing
  • Consultation
  • Discipline – gross misconduct
  • Discipline – poor performance
  • Appeals
  • Handling sickness absence
  • Return to work interviews
  • Notification rules
  • Trigger mechanisms

Supporting the Manager, Supervisor or Team Leader

  • Grievances
  • Conducting the grievance interview
  • Management’s right to manage
  • Equal opportunities
  • Discrimination
  • Equality and diversity
  • Harassment and bullying
  • Motivation

Managing Performance, Counseling, Providing Employee Assistance

  • The performance management process
  • Motivation and goal theory
  • Giving Feedback
  • Coaching
  • Counseling – managers and supervisors
  • Counseling employees
  • A counseling style inventory
  • Employee assistance programs

The Governance and Roles Involved in Policy & How to Implement Policy & Procedures

  • The role of Policy and Procedures
  • What needs to be included
  • Who needs to be involved
  • The review process
  • The approval process
  • Publication
  • Review of examples of Policy and Procedures
  • Avoiding ambiguity
  • Standards –ISO
  • Communications
  • How to ensure staff compliance

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.

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Course Rounds

5 Days
Code Date Venue Fees Action
HR113-01
2026-05-10
Dubai
USD 5450
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HR113-02
2026-08-09
Cairo
USD 5450
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HR113-03
2026-10-05
Istanbul
USD 5950
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HR113-04
2026-11-22
Dubai
USD 5450
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