Challenges of Managing Employment Relationship in Organizations

This presentation discusses the legal and practical challenges that organizations face in managing the employment relationship. It also provides recommendations to handle employment relations issues and maintain a positive work environment.

BSC (Hons) Business
Management (Top-up)
BMP6005 Work and the Employment
Relationship

Assessment 2: Individual Presentation
Practical and legal challenges that organisations experience in
managing the employment relationship
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Contents
• Introduction
• Practical and Legal challenges in employment
relationship
• Recommendations to a set of employment relations
issues
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• Employee relations refers as a company efforts to maintain and create positive
relationship with their employees. Employee engagement is more important for
overall success of a company. An organization want to strengthen their global
footprint, so they have to cover whole market, for this company set up subsidiaries
in many countries. Subsidiary company means that company belongs to other
organization, which is usually known as holding or parent company. Unilever plc
company deal in consumer goods, located in London United Kingdom. Company
mission is to add some vitality to life, by helping customers to look good, feel
good, and get more to live a good life. This report will highlight the legal and
practical challenges that company experience in controlling the employment
relation with the workplace and also includes some recommendations to maintain
employee relations issues such as open communication, encourage employees
provide feedbacks, appreciation etc.

Practical And Legal Challenges In
Employment Relationship
• Employment relationship is a link between the employers and employees, if
they work together then they achieve organization goals easily but if there
are conflicts between employees and employers then if effect their
performance which result in low productivity, less motivation etc. It
improves the performance of employee and help in growth of the
organization
• When employee like their work then it increases the possibility of employee
retention
• Positive employee relations show employee engagement as their morale is
high
• It helps company to increase understanding and cooperation in a workplace
• Good employee relations in an organization then it means less stress and
conflict in workplace
• Employee are motivated, engages then it creates positive impact on
business that is increase profits and revenue of an organization.

There are many legal and practical challenges in employment relationship, as company expand their business and
set subsidiaries in different countries so there are many issues to maintain good employee relations. Common
employment relation issues are:
• Conflict management: Conflict can occur in any workplace and environment, as disputes and disagreement
between employees can be occurred at any time. These result in ineffective communication, so employee
relation manager or Human resources department solve conflict between employee because it gives negative
impact on their productivity and organization growth.
• Cost optimization: The relation between employee and employer comes from common consensus such as
cemented in legal documentation like contract. The consequences of pandemic as many employees struggling
in managing their expenses because at the time of pandemic company reduce the salary, salary deferment,
removal of benefits etc. and many employee refuse to work at the low salary so at that time company also
struggling.
• Occupational safety and health act: This act make sure that each and every employee should work under
healthy and safe working conditions. By enforce safety and health act employees feel safe and company
conduct orderly inspection of working environment to ensure that they match the standards set. The main
purpose of this act is to prevent employees from injuries, disease, deaths in the working environment.

• Break: A break also give great impact on employee behaviour, an employer
should make sure that every employee have meal break and short tea or
coffer break so employees work in more effective manner and feel energetic to
work.
• Economical and legal policies: This is challenge for employment relationship
because government policies related to employment have great impact on
employer and employee relationship.
• Annual leave: This is another issue which come to end as dispute between
manager and employees, companies have various policies about leaves is
totally depends on company. Organization deal with many leave policies such
as stress leave, parental leave calls, sick leave etc.
• Pay rise: Ignoring and declining pay rise request is give negative impact
workplace, because they want fulfilment from the job so company should
focus in this if they already pay fair wages then they also considered this and
offer some rewards, incentives etc.
• Meet expectation: This is the most challenging for employer to meet the
expectation of employees, they should not expect more monetary benefits over
the company budget.
• Safety at work: Company should focus on prevention at any costs, because if
employee are not safe then it gives bad impact in organization success.
Company conduct training programs related to better understating working
environment, culture, safety equipment, safety guidelines etc.
• Contract: In simple words an agreement between two or more peoples is called
contract. It plays an important role in employee and employee relationship, it
involves promises and for breach the promise the law provide a solution.

Recommendations To A Set Of
Employment Relations Issues
• For handling employee relations issue an employer should understand the
nature of conflict and then take corrective action to solve the problem.
• For better performance the employer should make training programs to
enhance employees understanding, skills related to the work, provide
guidance of needed to help employees feel motivated and work in positive
manner.
• The best way to enhance employee relations is to encourage open
communication culture between employees and employers , employees and
management. This motivates safe working environment where every
employee feel free to communicate and share their ideas.
• Regular feedback helps employee to aware about their weaknesses and
strengths, so they make changes in their behaviour and work ethics.
• So it helps employee to improve their performance and do work in more
effective manner.

• Encourage employees participation in an organization, share their ideas and experience to increase
harmony between members, and also increase their comfort level and involvement within an
organization and enhance employees relations.
• Good employee relation show more efficiency, productivity and motivated employees which lead to
improve the production level.
• Communication is needed to maintain good relationship so company conduct training session and
brainstorming session so it improves their thinking capabilities Open communication provide
transparency that is employees feel their manager are honest, open-minded which create
cooperative working atmospheres.
• Manager also guide and support employee to ensure that every employee get right job and
meaningful work.
• Organization offer career development program's so employees are more engage in improving their
working style and motivated towards work in effective manner so it enhances growth of
organization as well as improve their performance.
• A good employment relationship helps company to retain their employees and strong impact on
success of company.

Conclusion/Summary
The above report discussed a brief about employment relationship and importance of effective employee and
employer relationship on organization. This report also includes some legal and practical issue or challenges on
employment relationship such as safety at work culture, conflict management, legal policies, employee expectation,
annual leave, pay rise, occupational health and safety act etc. Moreover, it involves recommendations to set such
employment relation issue like open communication, proper goals, feedback, encourage employee involvement,
appreciation etc. This report also conclude that effective employment relation have great impact on growth and success
of a company and retain employees.

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