ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the role of HRD in managing, sustaining, and improving all three types of work relationships: Organizational, interpersonal, and individual. It begins by exploring the employee life cycle and how organization work relationships impact the employee experience. Work relationships are formal interactions and include the employee's interactions in HRD processes related to the employee life cycle-recruiting, onboarding, developing, and separating. A critical HRD approach to the employee life cycle offers a more inclusive perspective on the employee life cycle, whereby all employees can develop positive work relationships through the recruiting, onboarding, developing, and departing processes, and there is more equitable access to opportunities for talent development. By appropriately responding to workplace incivility, HRD professionals can positively contribute to the development and sustainability of interpersonal work relationships. Finally, the chapter explains individual work relationships through work and nonwork role interactions, offering suggestions for addressing the myriad of individual work relationships.
