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As a manager, do you think being a close friend with your employees will make it harder for you to solve employee relations issues that occur?

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Question added by Dana Qaisi , Social Media Specialist , N/A
Date Posted: 2016/02/11
Nancy Refai
by Nancy Refai , Health, safety and environmental management Trainer and consultant , Freelancer

I guess business relations should be maintained professional and formal

Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi
by Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi , Shared Services Supervisor , Saudi Musheera Co. Ltd.

yes off course so i go with formal relational with some parts of friendship

 

Vikas Bachhuka
by Vikas Bachhuka , Sales Manager - Tire, Lubs & Batteries , ALI ALGHANIM & SONS AUTOMOTIVE CO.

It is always better to have friendly relation with your employee, simultaneously you have to draw a line between personal relation and work. Also the employee should know that mistakes will not be tolerated how so ever good relations are.

Abhirup Das
by Abhirup Das , Business Analyst- Corporate , Bhatia Brothers Group

A manager should always be friend with his/her colleagues. But this friendship should not hamper the professional relationship among them. ER issues can be best analysed by a manager who knows the employee personally and make rational decision. So, I dont it will be harder, rather it will easier to solve ER related issues

Omar Saad Ibrahem Alhamadani
by Omar Saad Ibrahem Alhamadani , Snr. HR & Finance Officer , Sarri Zawetta Company

Thanks Dear,

In my opinion , being friend with your employees will help you more and make it easier , but to keep your legal entity out of this relation.

Gayasuddin Mohammed
by Gayasuddin Mohammed , Advocate , Practicing Law before High Court at Hyderabad

I don't think so rather it will be helpful to make them understand and help them to resolve as well. Thanks.

Saifeldin Osman Ali
by Saifeldin Osman Ali , Human Resources Consultant , Aldoha investment CO LTD Sudan

Agree with colleagues good relation with your employees will leads to smooth process for any issues.

Haytham El-Shewey
by Haytham El-Shewey , Quality & HR Manager , Gulf Target General Trading L.L.C.

Well, there is a great difference between business and personal relationships. Hence, we should differentiate the nature of relationship/ friendship that you mentioned above.

If there's any kind of personal relationships, it doesn't have to interfere with the business in any way.

Sohail Lone
by Sohail Lone , Assistant Manager Audit , Deloitte - United Arab Emirates

A manager should apply the emotional intelligence in manager to employee relations.Friendliness can create a bias and perception of influence however through emotional intelligence manager can both the friend and delegate tasks appropriately

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by Deleted user

Being friend with your employees helps you in creating a friendly work environment but as a boss one should maintane a certain distance.

Muhammad Usman Shahid
by Muhammad Usman Shahid , Executive Finance , AL-Fatah Group of Malls

no close friend but positive thoughts and communication built strong relationship

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