HRMT20024 Employee Relations: Management Challenges & Solutions

This essay examines the challenges in managing employee relations within organizations. It analyzes two articles, the first investigating job satisfaction in relation to management-employee relationships and firm size, highlighting that larger firms face more challenges due to diverse work cultures and communication barriers. The second article explores intersectionality, focusing on discrimination based on race and gender and its detrimental impact on employee relations. The essay concludes that addressing these challenges is crucial for fostering a positive and productive work environment. Desklib offers a platform for students to access similar solved assignments and past papers.

Employment
Relation
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Introduction
 Employee relation is conceptualized as the
relationship share among the associated employees
within an organisation
 The study would discuss the challenges faced in
managing employee relations.
 The argumentative study would be developed to
identify the research area more specifically

ARTICLE 1: MANAGEMENT-
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS,
FIRM SIZE AND JOB
SATISFACTION

Topic
 The article investigates the job satisfaction in
terms of managing the appropriate relationships
with the employees from different levels.
 The challenges occur due to the ineffective
employee relations are described in this article.
 The article also provides the preferable
recommendations for increasing the job
satisfaction rate among the employees by
maintaining the effective employee relationships.

Research Objective
 To explore the importance of employee relations
within the workplace
 To investigate the management and employee
relationships and firm size for generating job
satisfaction
 To identify the challenges with the employee
relations that affect the performance productivity

Research Methods
 Employee-employer survey
 Quantitative and qualitative data collection process
 Use of the likelihood probit estimation
 Analysis through using likelihood ordered probit
estimates

Arguments/Findings
 The finding indicates that the employee relations
are more challenging in the larger firms than the
smaller firms.
 The job satisfaction rate is lower in larger firm
than the smaller firms (Conway et al., 2016).
 In larger firms, more diverse people work together
that create more barriers in communication and
work culture and emerge challenges accordingly.

Conclusion
 The findings indicate that the employees from larger
firms are more likely dissatisfied due to the
ineffective employee relations.
 It can be argued that the diverse working culture and
extensive knowledge of the employees in larger firms
improve their performance productivity due to the
cohesive work approaches with other employees.
 However, the extensive competition in the larger firms
may develop more challenges in employee relations.

Article 2: Intersectionality:
Are We Taking Enough
Notice In The Field Of
Work And Employment
Relations?

Topic
 The article formulates the conceptual ideas about
the inter-relationships between the employees in
terms of race and gender.
 The discriminations against the black people is
discussed in this article

Research Objectives
 To explore the intersectional analysis in terms of
discriminative attitudes among the employees
 To discuss the challenges faced due to the
intersectional approach in the employee relations

Research Method
 Formulation of Focus Group
 Debate discussions
 Interpretivism approach to interpret the
information