ADVANTAGES

• Increase of productivity and innovation through reaching and enabling employees' skills and knowledge

• Employee retention 

• Reduction of conflicts

• Improvement of cooperation

• Awareness of the business leading to organisational effectiveness

• Increase of employee engagement

• Improvement of organisation's culture which enables cultural change

• Increase of transparency between the employer and employees

• Higher employee satisfaction

• Improvement of employee well-being

• More opportunities to develop or improve employee skills

• Improvement of employer branding

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BARRIERS

• Attitude of the senior management (not enough engagement and commitment)

• Employee fear (of managers, voice not being heard or fear of being judged)

• Lack of employee engagement

• Time

• Resources

• Company's size and structure (in large organisation there is too many voice to hear and in a smaller organisation the problem is confidentiality)

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