Workplace Harmony In Small Businesses

Workplace Harmony In Small Businesses

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This 144 page book explores and theorizes workplace harmony, ultimately providing academic and practical step by step guides to foster workplace harmony in small businesses. For several decades, academic and industry have both continued to grapple with how best to nature workplace harmony and this is of paramount importance considering workplace harmony impacts significantly on both employee and firm productivity. Yet, what workplace harmony really entails has largely remained elusive with many equating it with workplace conflict, which of course is a totally different independent concept. Owing to this assumption, traditionally the absence of workplace conflict has been deemed to denote the presence of workplace harmony, which of course is not always the case, given there can be superficial workplace harmony.

What has also been amiss is the huge circumvention of small businesses in this debate with scant research exploring how small business owner managers approach workplace harmony. Considering the advent of the 21st century has brought with it complexity and dynamism in the workplace, such as the changing nature of work, employee diversity and inclusivity, employment contracts (permanent, causal, fixed), forms of working (office, remote, home), machine and human work roles, inevitably workplace harmony issues are rising. Surprisingly, little is known about how owner managed small businesses, which are engines that drive global economies, approach workplace harmony. This dearth of knowledge is detrimental to the performance of both the owner managed small businesses and the economy at large.

Given the above, this book breaks new ground by addressing this very important knowledge gap. It is particularly novel in providing a two in one perspective: An academic frontier on one hand and a small business practical guide world view on the other hand. Specifically, the book breaks a first by providing the following several practical guides, thus:

Six questions to learn to foster workplace harmony

Seven steps to acquire know how to manage people

Six steps to make harmony with yourself

Seven questions to understand employees’ needs

Five steps to understand employees’ needs

Six steps to make employees understand your business and commit to it

Twelve steps to understand different interactions at work: Group dynamics

Five steps to craft a workplace harmony framework for your business

90 Key employment issues that influence workplace harmony

Sixteen steps to execute a workplace harmony strategic plan

Four steps to justify transforming HRM practices

Three levels of fostering workplace harmony

Integrated Model for Workplace Harmony in Small Businesses (IMoWH)

The Workplace Harmony Flywheel

Finally, the book offers real life opportunities for small businesses to access a wide range of professional business support services provided by Dr Charlie – The Small Business Doctor (T.S.B.D.).

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The book addresses a very important issue of workplace harmony, which is central to enhanced productivity of both the employees and the business. The 21t century workplace continues to be complex and dynamic with key employment issues such as workforce diversity and inclusion, human-machine work roles, changing nature of work, changing mode of work (remote, face to face, flexibility), employment contracts (permanent, contract, fixed), cyber security amongst several others causing serious workplace harmony issues and ultimate productivity issues.

 

Yet, globally, workplace harmony as an independent concept or construct is largely dwarfed or circumvented as preference is given to workplace conflict. The argument raised is that the absence of workplace conflict represents workplace harmony, but this is not always the case, given parties to the employment relationship can fake or pretend being in harmony. This is called superficial harmony.

 

This book therefore, fills a very important knowledge gap given significant scarcity of literature that focuses on workplace harmony.

 

Furthermore, the book takes an original and creative approach of writing for two huge communities, that is, the academia and the small business community. In this regard, through its academic guide section and its practical guide section, it is a very rare book to come across in the market, providing a 2 in 1 comprehensive benefit.  Specifically, by developing an Integrated Model for Workplace Harmony (IMoWH) in small businesses, the book enlightens academia in respect of the delicate task of fostering workplace harmony. Further, the book ropes in entrepreneurial learning as an investigative lens, a perspective very much overlooked in mainline HRM and industrial relations discourse. Including entrepreneurial learning enriches the workplace harmony debate and casts greater insights into how small business owner managers are able to navigate the social exchange and psychological contract driven employment relationship.

 

As for small businesses, they stand to benefit from numerous practical steps and guides that clearly show them how they can go about fostering workplace harmony in their businesses. Opportunities for accessing professional business advisory services from Dr Charlie – The Small Business Doctor (T.S.B.D.) are also extended.

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