You are the President of the Human Resources Department of an organization. One day, one of the employees died while doing duty. His family was demanding compensation, but the company has refused to compensate for this reason, because the company's investigation revealed that the employee was intoxicated at the time of the accident. The employees of the company went on a strike demanding compensation to the deceased's family. The Chairman of the Management Board asked you to give advice in this regard. What advice would you give to the management board? Discuss the properties and flaws of each of your given advice.

The case presented is based on duality between company and employee relations. On the one hand, the relatives of the deceased employee and other employees of the company are seeking compensation while on the other hand the company does not want to compensate the deceased's family because the deceased staff was intoxicated.

The following advice will be given to me by the management board of the company for satisfaction in this matter-

 The first advice I will give is that the company should talk to the employees calm them so that they do not have any side effects on the daily activities of the company.

Properties: It will increase the confidence of the company in the minds of the employees and the daily activities of the company will not have any side effects.

Impersonation- It can take the employees of the company to believe that the company is inclined in front of their demand, so by pressing, their point of view can be considered.

 As the employee was intoxicated, the second advice would be given to me that the company paid half the compensation to the deceased's family members.

Qualities: The ongoing protest against the demand for compensation can be calm and this message will also be sent in the staff that if they make a mistake, then the company cannot be held fully liable.

Impact - Since the interest of the workers is linked to the demand for compensation, they can continue to protest by denying half the compensation.

 The third advice I will give is that the company will provide full compensation to the family of the deceased employee. Also prepare a detailed guide in this regard.

Properties:  This step will help to calm down the strike and protest completely. Simultaneously, employees' confidence in company management will increase. Most of the above will help to restore the pleasant and harmonious relationship between the company and the employees.

Obviously, this step will mean that the company management will be considered weak because the company has ignored the mistake of the deceased employee in a way and surrendered before the striking employees.

After fully considering the properties and subtle stances of the above given advice, my conclusive advice to the company would be that the family members of the deceased employee are fully compensated.

The following are the reasons behind my conclusive advice-

It is known that the deceased employee was intoxicated, so he made a mistake, but here the company's mistake cannot be ignored.

If the company had a proper system of security checks, then the information of the deceased employee's intoxication can be obtained. Nowadays, through the Breath Analyzer, it can be easily detected that the person has taken intoxication or not.

At the same time, I will also advise the company to prepare a detailed guideline and get the consent of all employees on it. This will prevent future incidents of such incidents and the company will not even bow before any inappropriate demand.

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