Employee Relations: Significance, Employment Law, Rights and Obligations

Employee Relations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
TASK...............................................................................................................................................4
P1. Employee relations and its value and significance within the organizational context.....4
P2. Fundamentals of employment law...................................................................................6
M1. Analyze the significance and value of employee relations in respect of enhancing the
outcomes of an organization with some examples.................................................................7
P3. Different types of rights, duties and obligations of an employee and employer within the
organization............................................................................................................................7
P4. Appropriate advice which is related to rights, duties and obligations of the employment
relationship with a range of organizational examples. ....................................................8
M2. Evaluation of psychological contract and support for employee work life balance.....11
D1. Different mechanisms for managing the employment relationship as well as make the
appropriate solutions for a range of organizational examples..............................................11
P5. A stakeholder engagement and contribution can support positive employment
relationships..........................................................................................................................12
M3. Different stakeholder perspectives and interests in the broader business environment to
support positive employment relationships..........................................................................14
P6. Impacts of positive and negative employee relations within the organization..............14
M4. An evaluation of the impacts of employee relationship with employee’s motivation,
engagement and performance...............................................................................................16
D2. Recommendations and conclusions based on the critical insight into the role of various
stakeholders and the impact of employee relationships.......................................................16

CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................18
Books and Journals:..............................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
Employees are the human assets of the organization and very significant to the
companies. The term employee represents managers and workers who are working in an
organization or a company or a community. In other words, it can be said that when an employer
hired a person to a specific job in exchange for payment can be called as employee. Employee
relations defines those efforts by an organization in order to create and develop a positive
relationship with their employees. When an organization maintains a positive and constructive
relationship then they are able to keep their loyal employees and maintain more employee
engagement in the organization (Al-Bahri, A. A. S. K. and Othman, K. B., 2019). When an
organization have dedicated employees then it will help to achieve the common goals and
objectives of an organization as well. The aim of this report is to discuss the significance of
employee’s relation in the Unilever Plc which is one of the British consumer goods company in
UK. The company is multinational in nature which provides different products and services such
as food, well-being vitamins, tea, coffee, ice-cream, cleaning agents, condiments, toothpaste,
personal care, beauty products and so on. The company was established by William Lever and
Margarine Unie in 1929. It is also identified that it is one of the biggest producer of soap
throughout the world. The report is aiming the significance of employees relation, fundamental
of employment laws, appropriate advice related to rights, duties and obligations of employee and
employer, signifies the role of stakeholder's which impacts positively in the employment
relationships and many more.
MAIN BODY
TASK
P1. Employee relations and its value and significance within the organizational context.
Meaning of employee relations: Employees and management are the two major aspects which
enables an organization to achieve its success. Employee relations have a direct influence with
employee engagement and satisfaction (Austin, L. J., 2021). Most of the companies like Unilever
are like to invest more in human resources in order to improve their relationships with employee
as well as keep their organizational environment healthy. The purpose of employee relations
strategy is to enhance the relationship and collaboration in the organization. This mainly focuses