Employee Relations
At Aide HR, we specialise in creating workplaces where managers and staff can perform together in a safe and positive atmosphere. For us, Employee Relations is not just about ticking a box; it’s about fairness, loyalty, commitment and productivity.
Performance Management & Staff Appraisal
Too often, our clients think of staff appraisals as an isolated activity — a single one-to-one meeting with an employee who’s struggling. At Aide HR, our experience has taught us that, for performance management & staff appraisals to deliver improvement, growth and opportunity, there needs to be a longer-term view. Positive appraisal outcomes are always the culmination of 12 months or more of regular reviews and valuable one-on-one discussions. We’ll rewrite your performance management processes from the ground up, ensuring that your company can use 121 meetings as an opportunity to identify your best people, engage your workforce, solve issues before they become embedded cultural problems, and create growth opportunities both for the individual and the business.
Disciplinary & Grievance
A disciplinary should always be a corrective, rather than a combative process. If your disciplinary processes aren’t designed to help the individual improve and perform to their best, then you haven’t designed the process properly. That’s where AIDE HR can help.
We’ll show you how to manage all meetings within the correct legal framework, ensuring that all grievances are adequately recorded, disciplinary behaviours and their consequences are made clear to the employee, and a fair appeals process is in place. Our objective is always to ensure that the relationship is maintained so that you’re able to return to a positive working relationship as soon as possible.
We can also help you write the pages in your company handbook, employee contracts and staff intranet systems to clarify your disciplinary & grievance procedures up-front.
Absence & Illness Management
Illness often can’t be helped, and in some cases, the same goes for unplanned absence. We’ll work with you to keep a fair and accurate record of your whole team’s absence and illness, and in situations where a problem is developing, we’ll show you how you can correct it.
It’s tempting to ignore absence and illness problems, as there’s a general belief that it’s outside of everyone’s control. In some cases this is true, but we’ve found situations where there has been an underlying problem at work that has exacerbated an issue. When this happens, we’ll take an impartial view, drill down to the cause and show you how to get productivity back on track.
Maternity & Paternity Arrangements
Whenever one of your employees is about to welcome a new baby, it’s an emotionally confusing time. On the one hand, your employee is excited about the coming change, but on the other, their desire to focus on being a great parent is tempered with a fear that, by spending too much time away from work, they’ll become isolated, lose their position in your organisation or miss out on opportunities for progression.
We believe that the arrival of an employee’s child is about more than legal compliance. How you deal with someone’s maternity and paternity arrangements can colour their perception of your company permanently. It’s a one-time-only opportunity to build the sort of trust and loyalty that lasts a lifetime.
We’ll show you how to support your employees throughout and beyond their pregnancy, making sure that they feel protected and supported by their employer, so that when they’re ready to return to work, they do so with passion, enthusiasm and renewed focus.