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Employee Relations; A Case Study

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view. This means currently the problem is a lack of common ground and common goals as well as poor communication, with the root of the problem is the way the  employees have been treated in the past. The root cause was the downsizing or rationalisation and this has been aggravated by the way the company dealt with the change. This  is discussed below. The relationship between Fontana and the employees is very difficult, with an apparent refusal by senior management to  see that the problem is not only employees. The management have expressed concern as former employees wee more flexible and at the end of the case study there is an  indicate that the management of the company have also indicted that they believe one option would be to screen recruits to ensure they have the right attitude. They cannot see  how the past events have caused this attitude problem. Relations are already strained, this makes them worse. The employees see things differently  to management showing this lack of common ground, in the past they have been flexible, but they do not seen any tangible benefits, only the loss of jobs and new  systems that create problems and management then shout about the loss of income when the machinery breakdown. The approach taken by management  when machinery broke down indicates a lack of care, respect and commitment to the employees. Where there are no common goals or communication to gain empathy and understanding or to  give a reason to share goals, diverse goals will develop (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 1996). For the employees the goal is likely to