Value and Importance of Employee Relations in Tesco

Employee Relations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Value and Importance of employee relations in Tesco..........................................................3
P2 Fundamental of Employment Law.........................................................................................5
LO2..................................................................................................................................................6
P3 Rights, Duties and Obligation of employee and employer.....................................................6
P4 Advise relating to rights, duty and obligation of employment relationship...........................8
LO3..................................................................................................................................................9
P5 Stakeholder Analysis..............................................................................................................9
LO4................................................................................................................................................11
P6 Impact of Positive and Negative employee relations...........................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Employee Relations refers to relationship between employer/management and
employees. Employee relations are also considered as efforts of organisation to create and
maintain positive relations with employees. Positive employee relations are important for
organisational success and this also contribute in keeping employees loyal and engaged in their
work. This report will discuss various aspects of Employee relations in context of Tesco. Tesco,
British Multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer headquartered at Hertfordshire,
England. This is a leading retail organisation and is located at 6800 locations in 11 countries in
the world. Tesco employs around 450000 employees and its employment relations are positive
leading to employees which are engaged in the organisation and capable in providing their
maximum support to achieve organisational objectives. Values and importance, fundamental of
employment law, rights, duties of employee and employer, stakeholder analysis will be discussed
in the report for their contribution in positive employee relations in Tesco.
MAIN BODY
LO1
P1 Value and Importance of employee relations in Tesco
Employee relations are important in every organisation regardless of their nature and size
etc. But in Tesco employee relations are more important because employees of Tesco directly
deal with its customers and this is important to maintain good and positive employee relations so
the performance of employees does not affect the customer satisfaction at the Tesco (McCabe,
2019). Positive employee relations are the reason that customer service and support of employees
at the Tesco stores is considered very effective. Some of the importance and value of employee
relations in Tesco are;
Makes Tesco Happy Place to Work
Positive relations with employer and management make Tesco a happy place where
workers can work. Positive workplace and positive relations make it easy to solve the problems

effectively and employees can get support from other employees and management whenever
required. Happy workplace encourages employees to take willing participation and work
proactively. Tesco allows its employee for flexible working and various rewards are provided to
employees so that they can work happily and also make extra efforts to improve their
performance.
Reduced absenteeism and Turnover
This is another importance of employee relations in Tesco as the employee relations will
reduce absenteeism and turnover in the Tesco. This is possible because when employees and
workers are happy working then it limits the possibility of willingly remaining absenteeism and
employees leaving the organisation (Gosavi, Garud and Bisen, 2018). Turnover and absenteeism
both are unfavourable in Tesco as this affect productivity in the organisation and along with that
this also affects cost and profitability. Additionally Tesco also provides job security to its
employees which involves a contract and this ensures that employees will not be terminated over
small issues in the organisation.
To keep employees informed about their Role and increase employee engagement
Employee engagement is a key contributor of organisational success and improved
performance because employee engagement leads employee to improve their performance by
their own. Employees take initiative and fins ways in which they can perform their job in better
way. This is why employee engagement is important and Tesco has employees who are
considered that they can go to any extent to help their customers this is because of their high
employee engagement. To keep employee informed about their role this is also possible through
the employee relations. This is a part of employee relations that management continuously
communicate with their employees in order to keep employees informed about their role in the
organisation. This will reduce any type of job role ambiguity of the employee and they will be
able to focus on their work.
Alignment of Objectives
Employee relations allow employees and Tesco to align their objectives with the
organisational objectives this allows to fulfil objectives of both employer and employee to