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Employee Relations in Walmart : Assignment

   

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Employee Relations

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................11.1.Unitary and pluralistic frames of reference......................................................................11.2.Changes in trade unionism that affected employee relations...........................................21.3.Role of the main players in employee relations...............................................................22.1.Procedures an organisation should follow when dealing with different conflict situations.32.2.Key features of employee relations in a selected conflict situation.................................42.3.Effectiveness of procedures used in a selected conflict situation.....................................43.1.Role of negotiation in collective Bargaining....................................................................53.2.Impact of negotiation strategy for a given situation.........................................................64.1.Influence of EU on industrial democracy in the UK........................................................64.2.Methods used to gain employee participation and involvement in decision making processin organisations.......................................................................................................................64.3.Impact of human resource management on employee relations......................................7CONCLUSION......................................................................................................................7REFERENCES.......................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTIONEmployee relation is very essential for any organisation in order to achieve goals andobjectives. Human beings work together in order to complete tasks and make benefits out of it.Relationship has to be maintained between employees, employers and management because thenonly a great output can come out. It is very normal to have conflicts within a system but it is veryessential to resolve these issues in order to keep productivity constant. Prime duties of teamleaders and superiors is to maintain a good working environment and to resolve issues betweenemployees. It is not only the duty of employers but employees as well to adjust with the changesand culture of organisations (Gupta and Kumar, 2012). In current case of WALMART whichhas many hypermarkets, discount department stores and grocery stores, employees have a goodrelation with their organisation. This report includes various ways in which WALMARTresolves conflicts between employees and influence of EU over industrial democracy of UK.1.1.Unitary and pluralistic frames of referenceUnitary frame of references starts from the values and assumption that workplace conflictis not an expected behaviour or a relationship between manager and employee. It is seen thatother employees also commit further problems when they see a conflict between their coworkers. This is an issue for any organisation and has to be resolved nicely. It focuses onintegrating employee and employers in order to build stronger connections to make employeesloyal and committed (Grady, 2013). This approach lets managers to bring up a win-win situationwhere employees and organisations should align with each other's involvement. Under this, allthe stakeholders are rational members who will be finding common interests. There are someweaknesses too which include power inequalities between employees and employers which mayresult in conflict generation.Pluralist frame of reference believes that workplace consists of diverse set of beliefs,behaviours, attitudes and values. These form the basis of this frame. Also, it can be seen thatthere are opposing sources of leadership and attachments in an organisation. Conflictmanagement strategies are used here constantly. These are particularly beneficial for diverseorganisational and national cultures. It also suggests that sometimes conflicts can even be helpfulin determining the cause of problem and then solution can be provided to it. It considers otheralternative decision-making processes. Weakness here is that it includes many rules and1

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