(ER)Employee Relation Assignment

EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................1
P.1.1 Unitary and Pluralistic frames of references in Sainsbury............................................1
P.1.2 Change in trade union have affected employees relations............................................2
1.3 The role of the main player in employee relations..........................................................3
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 The procedures an organisation should follow when dealing with different conflicts
situation..................................................................................................................................3
2.2 Explain the key feature of employee relation in a selected conflicts situation................4
2.3 Evaluation effectiveness of the procedures used in a selected conflicts situation...........5
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................6
3.1 Explain the role of negotiation in the collective bargaining.............................................6
3.2 The impact of the negotiation strategy used in the Sainsbury..........................................7
Task 4...............................................................................................................................................7
4.1 Influence of the EU on the industrial democracy in the UK............................................7
4.2 comparison of the Method used to gain employees participations and involvement in the
decisions making process in the organisations.......................................................................8
4.3 Assess the impact of human resource management on employee relations.....................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Employee relation play significant role in every organisation and the HR manger to take
various step to maintain the relation with employees. in every organisation issues regarding
employee relation due the generation gap has been evolved in organisation in which the age
have been the main issues to implement policies in organisation in which the communication gap
and conflicts will be raise. As the unitary and pluralistics approach to determine the employee
are in positive and negative way. Employee relation can be affected due to changes in trade
union. To maintain the employee relation various player have different role and the procedure an
organisation should follow when dealing with different conflicts situations. There are key feature
of employee and it is important to evaluate the the effectiveness of procedure used in some of the
selected conflicts situation. It is important for the organisation to take the better situation and
deal with conflicts negation in collective bargaining have important role in organisations. As the
influence of EU on industrial democracy in UK. For organisation is important to welcome for
the participation from employees in the decision making process to archive organisation
objectives.
Task 1
P.1.1 Unitary and Pluralistic frames of references in Sainsbury.
For every organisation the main issues is to maintain the employees relation in which
various frames have been used to judge the employees to make over the relation on the basis of
unitary and pluralists frames which can be discussed as follows:
Unitary Frames: These approach have been associated with value and ethics of employees are
different in organisation. Employee can Communicate with the top to bottom level management
but due to the intervention of labour Union and high expectation with organisation in behalf of
employee needs and requirement will affect the relations (Kelly, 2016). The proper training is
necessary to developed the employees according to their skills and attitude towards work will
help to create better environment in organisations. Training and development will be done when
employees are not able to do various task in which management will have responsibility to
improve productivity to boost the performance of organisation. Unitary frames can help to
proper development to considered the belief and ethics system and proper training and
development will bring better relations.
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Pluralistic Frames: A proper structure will be form to considered these frame of reference with
divide proper hierarchy of organisations. In pluralistic frames organisation goals are more
priority rather than other objectives. But the negative impact of these frames in which the trade
union is interpreted in organisation with their high demands. If any conflicts have been raise in
these frames it is easy to solve with collective bargaining and set common objectives for both
groups. But communication will be not direct it can be done through leader to next subordinates.
If the organisation is dealing which employees it is necessary to bring the communication
according to set of structure so gap of communication can be avoided. Thus the pluralists frame
will play major role to maintain relation with employees.
P.1.2 Change in trade union have affected employees relations.
Trade union is group of employees in which they came together to set common
objectives for employees and organisations. It can be the issues related with safety of employees
or any other demands in behalf of employees is necessary to fulfilled by the leader of trade
union. But if entire trade union have been changes than it will be directly impact on employees
relations. The major impact will be on communication gap will arise in front of employees and
management of organisations. It is possible to have double group in union in which the leader
will voice have never impact on employees due to which a politics will be played in between the
groups which will affect on other employee of union (Jackson, Leopold and Shams, 2016).
Change in trade union can be positive but majorly it has huge negative impact on employees
relations. The wages will be affected due to such changes in union will demand high wages will
affect the employee relations because it will be burden for organisation give high wages
according to the demands of trade union in which the past deal with trade union in between
management and union leaders is different from affect the changes took place. The major
changes have to made by the top management as the some of amendment have to reframe such
as code of conducts and leave politics and agreement of past deal etc. will create conflicts among
the employees these can be the main cause which can affect relations with employees. if the
communication gap will raise tan the employee bring new issues in front of management which
can be not easy to solve with new trade union. The top management have to understand the
situations. The most important factor is employee growth will affected due to changes in trade
union in organisations and HR manage of sainsbury have to take various step to manage such
situation which can be easily help to maintain the relation with employees.
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