Employee Relation in Virgin Atlantic : Project

EMPLOYEE
RELATION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Unitary and pluralistic frames of references.........................................................................1
1.2 How changes in trade unionism have impact on employees relation...................................2
1.3 Role of players in employee relation....................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
2.1 Process for dealing with different conflicts situation............................................................4
2.2 Features of employees relation in collective dispute situation..............................................5
2.3 Effectiveness of procedure that is used for dealing with issues............................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Role of negotiation in collective bargaining.........................................................................7
3.2 Impact of negotiation strategy...............................................................................................8
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
4.1 Influence of EU on industrial democracy in UK................................................................10
4.2 Comparing method to gain employee participation in decision making process................11
4.3 Impact of human resource management on employee relation...........................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
In today’s era, maintaining healthy employee relation is very important for the success of
company which can be defined as a relationship between employer and workers. In order to
attain competitive advantages or other benefits, it is necessary that management should take
effective actions so that harmonious relations can be maintained at the workplace (Kumari,
2012). If there will be no conflicts then employees will be able to perform their job effectively
and efficiently by which organisation can easily reach to its decided targets within stipulated
period of time. For maintaining mutual understanding between job provider and employees,
government has made various rules and regulations that should be followed by every firm so that
it can move on towards the way of success without any disturbance. This project is based on
“Virgin Atlantic” which is operating their business in aviation industry of UK and providing
better quality of services to their clients. Unitary and pluralistic frames of references, the way
changes in trade unionism have affected employee relations and role of main players in
achieving the same will be discussed in this report. It will also define the procedure for dealing
with different conflicts situation as well as role of negotiation in collective bargaining.
TASK 1
1.1 Unitary and pluralistic frames of references
Unitary and pluralistic approaches can be used by Virgin Atlantic for understanding the
significance of employee relation in today’s competitive environment. Regarding this concept,
every individual has different point of views even after it helps in maintaining harmonious
relations at workplace (Miki and et.al., 2015). Mainly, these concepts are adopted by
organisation so that better mutual understanding between employers and employees can be
maintained and business operations can be run in a smooth or accurate manner. These concepts
can be understood by the following below given points-
Unitary perspectives- This framework refers to the way of thinking, perception,
assumption and attitude regarding management as well as organisational membership. According
to this model, managerial person will have the main responsibility to take all important decisions
and if this judgement will have any negative impact on business operations then manager will
only be liable. As per this concept, every individual will be assumed as a group who will have
same interest, values and objectives. This concept gets feedbacks by implementing mission
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