The Merits of Staff Mediation in the Workplace

Oct. 1, 2012 - PRLog -- Royston, Hertfordshire, UK - Staff mediation is a procedure that involves a neutral person facilitating the disagreeing parties to resolve their grievances and rebuild their work partnership. Most businesses require cooperation in order to deal with conflict quickly and calmly. For this reason, they usually opt to use the services of an external mediator. Mediation services play a very important role in resolving conflict and restoring employee productivity.

Members of staff are usually confident to state their grievances without fearing the repercussions. Staff mediation should be readily available to employees who feel that they are being ostracized, bullied or handled unfairly by fellow employees or by managers. Mediators who are dedicated to solving conflicts in the workplace understand the details of the mediation process. By resolving issues through a mediated process, companies can achieve outstanding results.

Staff mediation helps get rid of misunderstandings and uncovers the concerns on all sides. It can be used at all levels of conflict in the workplace. Ideally, it should be implemented at the onset of the conflict before the filing of formal dispute documentation.

The main reasons why staff mediation yields success are; The mediation process is voluntary meaning that only the members of staff who are willing to participate in it do so.

• The process is confidential.
• It is conducted in a trusting, non-threatening environment.
• It is facilitated by a third party and this keeps a forward focus.
• It brings employees together to define the issues that require resolution.
• It focuses on the issues that need to be resolved.
• It removes the blame element by separating the employees from the issues.
• It focuses on creating a better understanding of the fears, concerns and interests of the employees affected.
• It allows for an open form of brain storming ideas.

The power of making decisions remains with the employees who are affected.

It is flexible and all the parities involved maintain control.

Staff mediation helps employees to understand each other and this enhances cohesiveness. It is also cost effective, fast and increases employee retention. The mediation process also benefits employees in that they can use the conflict resolution skills they learn during the process to deal with personal and workplace conflicts in the future.

A corporation can also choose to have its human resources staff receive staff mediation training. Conflict management training can help a company to prevent conflicts from escalating because the HR staff will know the initial steps to take if they detect that a conflict is building up. Implementing a mediation process in the workplace is a great way to ensure that employees continue working together after a conflict. Such a process can also help employees to have great respect for each other.

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