Employee Relations

Tailored to the needs of practitioners,Employee Relations offers a complete overview of the field strongly aligned to the organizational and HR strategy and objectives. Using a combination of practical tools, assessments, scenarios and case studies from best practice, it covers topics from understanding the labor market and the employment relationship to trade unions and international governing bodies covering key areas such as conflict and dispute resolution, dismissal and redundancy, rights, ethics and much more. Aligning effective employee relations with strategic objectives it equips managers with the skills needed to plan, implement and assess relations in any type of organization.

About the Author

Liz Aylott is based at BPP where, as a member of the faculty Business School, she lectures on HRM and business degrees, and Master’s level programmes. For 10 years she has also lectured on the business degrees and the CIPD programmes at levels three, five and seven at Farnborough College of Technology. She has provided a range of training programmes for individuals and clients and advice for businesses, ranging from a series of courses to introduce a new performance management system to career development and outplacement workshops.

Liz has a passion for developing expertise at all levels, for those embarking on a new career or for more experienced professionals, and for making learning accessible to all. For example, she has enjoyed coaching individual students through a range of business-based NVQ and Apprenticeships at a variety of different businesses, from large multinational corporations to small businesses. Whilst possessing an enthusiasm for facilitating and supporting employees to build on their strengths, she also has enjoyed the ability to provide advice as necessary, in particular for small businesses as they develop their HRM practice.

She has a broad interest in HRM but with an emphasis on employee voice, perceptions of justice and fairness, supporting HRM in SMEs and also employee absence and poor performance. She has written Case Studies on Employment Law for the CIPD and a Study Manual for Employment Relations Diploma Level 5, prepared for the Association of Business Executives and produced by BPP Media to support students completing this qualification.

Her primary areas of expertise are Employee Relations and Employment Law, an interest formed when she practised as a qualified HR Manager over 15 years ago. This interest has been developed from experience in a range of sectors, from the NHS (where she first practised as a physiotherapist), to the charitable sector (provision for disabled adults) and manufacturing industry (contact lens manufacture). This experience of being an employee (at the production line, either as a physiotherapist providing a service or as a lecturer developing education), of being a Line Manager, a Senior Manager and HRM professional has held her in good stead.