Employee Relations: Importance, Laws, Rights, Duties, and Obligations

Employee Relations

Table of Contents
Employee Relations.........................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Value and Importance of Employee Relations.......................................................................1
P2 Fundamentals of Employment Laws......................................................................................3
LO2..................................................................................................................................................4
P3 Right, Duties and Obligation of Employee and Employer.....................................................4
P4 Advice relating to Right, Duties and Obligations of Employment Relations.........................6
LO3 .................................................................................................................................................7
P5 Stakeholder Analysis..............................................................................................................7
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................8
P6 Effect of employee relationship on stakeholders....................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Employee relations refers to relations that exist between employer and employee
individually and collectively. These relations need to be positive and harmonious if organisation
want so succeed. This relation have various elements that are required to be in favourable
condition if organisation want to succeed and for that it need to keep it employees happy and
satisfied with their job and organisational culture. This report discuss importance of employee
relations and what organisation can do to keep in harmonious. The discussion have been based
on Tesco, British multinational retailer headquartered at Hertfordshire, England, United
Kingdom. In context with Tesco it increases its importance as most of the employees of Tesco
are in direct connection with employees and when company do not maintain good relations with
employees it may affect their performance and which will directly affect their customer count
and customer satisfaction. Moreover this report includes principles of employee relations. In
context with employee relations and their positivity only employer and management is not
responsible but employee also have to pay equal contribution and in this regard rights, duties and
obligation of employment relations have also been included in this report.
LO 1
P1 Value and Importance of Employee Relations
To understand employee relations and its importance it can be said that organisation can
purchase best material for production, latest technology and employ best strategy but does not
link any human factor with these will ant of this will remain useful the answer is NO. This same
thought can be seen in different perspective that organisation have best of everything but does
not have good relations with employees and that is why employees does not perform well and
organisation cannot get adequate return and output from its investment. Both of these statements
clarify importance of employee and employee relations (Eldor and Vigoda-Gadot, 2017). An
important element of employee relation also includes relations of employees with their fellow
workers and human beings being human do need to have healthy relations with their employees
so that they can talk to them and feel satisfied for having a social life.
Value of Employee Relation-
For Organization- Positive and harmonious employee relations are very important and valuable
for organization and its stakeholders in a way that if employee relations are good it will develop
a positive and friendly atmosphere at organization for everyone to contribute their best efforts.
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These efforts will consequently increase profitability of organization. As same harmonize
employees plays significant role in organisation.
For example: Harmonize employees also known as coordinate employee who provides supports
organization in each circumstance, and they also resolve conflicts of other employee by
communicating them as team. That's why Tesco gives values to their employee's by meeting
their objectives.
For Employee- Good relations with employer and management is required for employees as
much as they are important and valuable for organization (Olsen and et.al., 2016). Employees are
able to work in a positive environment and honest efforts of employee contribute to their growth
in organization.
Importance of Employee Relations
Work becomes easy- Harmonious employee relations make easy to work in organisation for
everyone including management. This helps to remove all kind of ambiguity and make it easy for
employees to ask for help relating to any concern.
Innovation- Innovation has become an essential factor for success in present business
environment and for that employee relations are very important. To justify this it can be said that
one important element of employee relations is trust and when employees are trusted by
organisation they provide their suggestion and organisation also accept and implement those
suggestions as appropriate and this is biggest source of ideas and innovation in organisation that
contribute to success of organisation.
Goodwill and Competent Manpower- Positive employee relations are very important for
goodwill and positive image of the organisation and employees of such organisations are its
important brand ambassador (Thornthwaite, 2016). This also attract competent manpower toward
organisation and organisation can have best employees available in job market. Having best
employees is also important as they are able to use resources to its best potential.
In context with Tesco all these factors are applicable and Tesco also needs to maintain good
employee relations. There are some other reasons that make it important for Tesco to have ggod
employee relations.
Tesco being a retail organisation have its stores and employ a large number of employees to
work in those stores as store manager and their subordinates which are based on the basis of
departments in store and every store employs most number of employees in form of customer
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