Work and the Employment Relationship Individual Report

Work and the
Employment
Relationship

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
TASK...................................................................................................................................................3
1.The value and significance of employee relations....................................................................................3
Employment law..........................................................................................................................................4
2. Right,duties and obligations among the employees and employers........................................................5
Psychological contract.................................................................................................................................6
3. Stakeholder Analysis................................................................................................................................7
4. Impact of positive employee relations on different stakeholders...........................................................8
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES ...................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Employee relations refers to the efforts of an organization which create and maintain a positive
relationship with its employee. If the employees feel satisfied with their achievements and
environments, they are persuaded to make efforts to improve themselves. Good relations within
the company motivate the employees to work hard(John,2020).Motivated employees turn out to
be great team leaders and encouraging their peers to do better. In this report company is being
chosen is Marks and Spencer, which is one of the largest British grocery retailers and food
companies, headquartered in London, UK.It was founded in 1884 by Michael Marks and Thomas
Spencer. It provides great food, quality of clothing and homeware to millions of customers
across the world. There are various kind of factors which are being discussed in this report such
as the value and importance of employee relations and to provide an evaluation of the
psychological contract and support for employee work life balance in relation to rights, duties
and obligations of the employment relationship & stakeholder analysis of M&S. In addition to
this, stakeholder analysis is being conducted with its positive and negative impact on employees
and employer relationship.At last, it covers the impact of both positive and negative employee
relations and different stakeholders.
TASK
1.The value and significance of employee relations
Relations of the employee is very crucial for the success of the company. Motivated employees
turn out to be great team leaders and they also encouraging their peers to do better. Employee
relations is a part of human resource strategies that are particularly created to ensure effective
use of human resources to achieve the mission, vision and goals of a business organization. It
deals in physical, emotional as well as contractual set-up between the employer and employee so
that both the involved parties can benefit from the enterprise. In Mark and Spencer every
individual shares a certain relationship with their fellows and workers(Poon, 2019)(Teague and
Donaghey, 2018)( Barry, Olekalns and Rees, 2019)(Hodgson, 2017)(.Coyle-Shapiro,
et.al.,2019.)( Serravalle,et.al.,2019)(.Koromila, et.al.,2022.)(Liu, et.al., 2017. )(Jacoby, 2018. )
(Esoimeme, 2020.). Because they also need people to talk to, share feelings, sorrows, happiness
and discuss ideas with each other’s. If the organization is empty then people will not feel like
being there and working. So, it is essential that working in a organization Masses have to be
bounded with each other at workplaces because an emotional touch between employees can

create an easy path for discussing their ideas and projects. Moreover, it is helpful to relieve their
mind from stress. If any organization lack to create friendly environment, then workers feel
burden and that thing demotivate them which may be responsible for companies’ loss. Therefore,
it is necessary to maintain a healthy and friendly bond between individuals and a group of people
with positive mindset which is beneficial for company. Mark and Spencer apply the policies to
promote an environment free from harassment, victimization and discrimination. The
organization is such a place where everyone treated well and the decisions taken to employment
law which based on their work criteria.
Employment law
It is defined as the law which is concerned with the legal rights of the employees and the
employer. This is constitutes the statutory rights of the employees within the company.This
basically determines the regulations and the rules which are helpful to analyse the relationship
among the two. Such law cover the rights of the employees and define the minimum needs of
working within the business. Employees have rights which set out by Mark and Spencer are
given below:
 The right to holiday,parental, sick and maternity leave pay.
 National Minimum Wage Act 1998, it is the in which employer are liable to give the
minimum wages to the employees who are working within the organisation.Mark &
Spencer also follow this act in order to give the minimum wages to the employees.
 Health and Safety at work act 1974, as per this act employers have the responsibility to
ensure the good health and safety of the employees. M&S strictly following this act such
as identifying,assessing and controlling health & safety hazards. Employees also have
right to know,right to refuse unsafe work and the right to participate.
 According to the Equality Act 2010, certain conserved characteristics that cannot be used
for any workplace unless it didn’t get proper arrangement to regulate them in the
organization.
 A right to written terms which framework their job rights and responsibilities, as a
minimum.