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EMPLOYEE RELATIONS INTRODUCTION

   

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EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

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INTRODUCTIONIn the modern world of business, there are many issues arise in the firm that were notpreviously considered to be very important for the smooth working of organisation. One suchissue is employee relations. ER is termed as the relation that is maintained by the employer withemployees (Allen and Aldred, 2011). It is highly important for the firms either big or small tohave positive employee relations with workers as this is the reason of achieving employeesatisfaction which is necessary for increasing the productivity of firm. For understanding thecharacteristics of employee relations in UK, company that is taken in this report is BritishAirways. It is one of the biggest firms operating in airline industry in UK and around the world.This report highlights the ways in which employee relations can be maintained. It also describesthe approaches that are followed by employers so as to maintain healthy relations. It showcasesconflicts that arise in firms and ways it can be resolved by the management. This report describesthe characteristics of employee relations as well as role of negotiations in joint bargaining.1.1 Unitary and pluralistic frames of referenceThere are various characteristics of employee relations so as to understand thesignificance and nature of employee relations. There are several ways that are present in front ofmanagers of British Airways like pluralistic and unitary frame of reference. It is a fact that boththe approaches depend on diversified views and thoughts but are focused on creating relationshipbetween employer and employee in a firm. Main aim that is associated with these approaches isto ensure that workforce is managed in effective manner. Unitary approach of ER underlines thatpower and authority remains in the hands of people that are sitting at managerial level in anycompany and workers are not involved in the affairs related to strategy making. Adding to this,By using this approach, direction uniformity is retained (Atkinson and Hall, 2011). Since singleperson is responsible for making decision who ensure that ER is maintained in professionallyacceptable manner. This also helps in promoting the commitment and loyalty among workforce.This approach relies on the impression that conflicts among employer and employee in BritishAirways can be confronted.On the contrary, Pluralistic approach resides on the impression that values, behavioursand attitude are the means using which better workforce can be generated. In this approach, tradeunions plays a valuable role and often takes judgement in the favour of workers so as to be1

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