esphr | Why investing in your line managers is critical to effective employee relations

Being a line manager can be an unenviable task at times. These professionals play a critical role in today’s complex and rapidly changing workplace, and as such, they face significant challenges daily.

They must be incredibly versatile – shifting from mate to manager, spinning all the plates of hybrid and remote workers, and dealing with a growing range of employee relations challenges. And that’s without even getting into their own workloads.

Evidently, it’s a role that requires a lot of self-drive, and the confidence to know you can support employees with any problems that employees might approach you with.

But with such radical changes to working life over the past few years, many organisations haven’t had the bandwidth to provide the support that’s necessary to maintain a line manager’s confidence in their ability to lead a team and juggle the myriad of people issues they might encounter.