Employee Relations Assignment: Trade Unionism

Employee relation

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Explanation regarding Pluralistic and unitary frame............................................................1
1.2 Impact of trade unionism on employee relations..................................................................2
1.3 Role played by Key players for development of employee relations...................................3
PART 2............................................................................................................................................4
2.1 Procedure to be followed in order to deal with conflicting situations..................................4
2.2 Important characteristics of employee relation in case of conflicts......................................5
2.3 Evaluation of effectiveness of process involved in various situations..................................6
PART 3............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Role that is played by negotiation in collective bargaining..................................................7
3.2 various negotiation strategies and their impact.....................................................................7
PART 4............................................................................................................................................8
4.1 Impact on industrial democracy due to EU...........................................................................8
4.2 Manner in which employee participation and involvement can be gained...........................9
4.3 Impact on employee relation due to HR approaches..........................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
RFERENCES ................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
In an organisation there are various persons who are working and it is very necessary that
they maintain good relation. So employee relation is the relationship that exist between employee
and employer, labour and workmen who are working at same place (Bach and Kessler, 2011).
All of them work in one direction that is towards achievement of objectives specified by
organisation. For this purpose various laws are made that are to be followed by all. All the
operation in business are performed by workers so it is very essential that they shall be
maintained in proper manner. For this it is required that all the facilities shall be provided to
them and also positive environment should be developed in company so that they can carry out
work in most effective and efficient way. In this report various aspects in relation to it will be
discussed that includes pluralistic and unitary factors that are involved and also features which
are used to resolve the conflicts that arise. Also the manner in which employee relations can be
improved and the effect of various approaches on it will be explained below.
PART 1
1.1 Explanation regarding Pluralistic and unitary frame.
All the employees that are present in an organisation have different manner of thinking
and this is due to environment and background from which they belong and in which they are
currently working (Morris, 2012). There are various characteristics which are related to
employee relations and they have been categorised in two parts which are unitary and pluralistic
frames. The relations can be maintained in effective manner with the use of these approaches in
which different perceptions are specified in respect of it. The main objective for which they are
considered is to provide such framework that helps in carrying out all the operations of business
in most appropriate manner. So for proper understanding both of them are explained below in
detail:
 Unitary perspectives: In any business there are various objectives that are to be attained
and by using this company can maintain harmony and incorporate other features so that
all staff members and managers can perform actions towards one goal. In this an
assumption is made that all of them have same interest and work with same targets as by
that company will be able to achieve the goals in long term. In company there are many
grievances and conflicts which arise and as per this concept it is not good as the plan will
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