Employee relations are an integral part of human resources. “Employee relations involves the range of tasks related to maintaining employer-employee relationships that contribute to satisfactory productivity, motivation and morale. Essentially, employee relations aims to prevent and resolve problems involving individuals that arise from or affect work situations. (www.wfnetwork.bc.edu) The human resources professional needs knowledge and understanding, but these are of limited value if they do not have the skills to apply them to problem solving. Because employees want to feel good about themselves, what they do, and where they work, it is important for human resources professionals to constantly stay current on ways to improve employee relationships. employees within an organization or business. Policies, procedures, rules, discipline, and employee rights are some ways through which human resource professionals can maintain good relations with employees. Human relations professionals are typically responsible for reviewing and updating policies, procedures and rules. Policies, procedures and rules are established for many reasons. Some of these reasons are: to comply with state and federal regulations, to improve productivity, to improve profits, to establish a standard that will be recognized by, for the safety of employees and individuals within the organization, consistency of daily operations and fair and honest treatment for each individual. According to www.policy.calpoly.edu, a policy is “the formal guidance necessary to coordinate and execute activity throughout the institution.” When deployed effectively, policy statements help focus attention and resources on high-priority issues - aligning and merging efforts to achieve middle of paper ...... one should know at l 's advance that an employee wishes to see his or her files. Unauthorized persons should not have access to employee information. The employee (or his or her representative) can view documentation relating to the employee's qualifications, such as application, promotions, disciplinary actions and transfer documents. Employees can also view their training records and various signature forms that may be related to their work. There are also documents that cannot be seen by the employee. These documents include things like reference checks, criminal investigation files, court documents, or any documents that may contain personal information about other employees. There is a certain procedure for viewing personal information that human resources personnel must follow to ensure that it does not violate privacy.