Strategic employment relations
We are an innovative, forward-thinking employment relations and industrial relations consultancy.
We help our clients deliver practical and pragmatic change, transforming workplace cultures.
Make Work Better is led by Debbie Sanders, working closely with experienced trusted partners who share her philosophy.
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Make Work Better strongly advocate that ER is approached as a key strategic business issue.
Collective employment relations is a big risk issue – not just in terms of disputes or conflict - but in lack of engagement and negative impacts on recruitment, retention and productivity.
Employees want to work for organisations that listen to them, who give them a voice and where they feel they can speak up.
Increasingly, investors are concerned about workforce risks and impact on reputation, investment or share value.
We firmly believe that modern, constructive, collaborative employee voice is critical for organisational success.
We support organisations to develop ways to enable employees and their representatives to share ideas and concerns with senior leaders.
Our aim is the development of a positive workplace culture.
About Make Work Better
Debbie Sanders is the founder of Make Work Better.
She is a specialist in collective employee voice with unique experience as both a union official and a leader of ER teams in large, complex organisations.
Debbie has been a researcher, writer and lecturer in employee relations.
I started Make Work Better to help organisations introduce genuinely effective and sustainable ways of working with their unions and employee representatives.
I believe that giving employees a voice at work makes sound business sense. People feel valued, contribute more and feedback ideas about how to make work better. Working effectively with unions and employee representatives adds real commercial value, positively impacts culture and significantly manages risk.
Skilled capabilities in collective employment relations are often missing in organisations. We help to build that capability, together with confidence and enthusiasm for employment relations amongst leaders, managers and HR teams.
Make Work Better is here to help modernise workplace culture by transforming ways of working with unions and employee representatives.
“Debbie is both incredibly knowledgeable in her field, but also very practical and realistic in her advice. She understands real work issues, not just theory and academic thinking. Her style is very approachable, engaging and non-judgemental but she does not shy away from the difficult things that need to be considered - but are often avoided.”
— Marina Glasgow, Head of CDR/Chief Conciliator, ACAS