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Many employers get so excited at the prospect of maintaining good relations with employee that they walk on a self-destructive path that ends up harming the business instead of providing any benefits.
Each and every organization must use its resources and assets in a productive way to survive in the market. If you compromise on productivity in a bid to keep up good relations with your employees, chances are high that you will become bankrupt before the financial year ends. It is one thing to involve the employees when determining productivity requirements. However, it is a completely different thing to change the benchmarks midway simply because your employees are lazy.
If a firm that works in a productive way and achieves its goals regularly will not survive if there is lack of discipline in the workforce. Formation of groups, internal politics and lack of regard for rules and regulations in the firm will show badly on its reputation in the long run. Trying to keep up good relations by compromising on discipline is going to work against you.
When times are tough, you may have to take tough and unpopular decisions. Your want to have good relations with employees should never affect this essential requirement. Consider yourself as the head of a family who knows what is best for all its members.
Other members with incomplete knowledge may find your decisions unfair but that does not mean you should bend down just to make them happy. The concept of employee relationship is based on a mutually beneficial principle. Ignore this and you would be striking at the heart of your chances of making it big in the world of business.
