Practical and Legal Challenges in Employment Relationship Management

HRM
Oral assessment and presentation
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
The practical and legal challenges in management of the employment relationship within the
workplace.....................................................................................................................................3
Recommend set of employment relations issues.........................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
The employment relationship is legal binding/ link between the employees and employer of
an organization. This relationship emerges when an individual works under various terms and
conditions in return for some remuneration (Budd and Bhave, 2019). When the employees are
not satisfied with the provided remuneration for their work, it creates issues of wages & salary
and various other issues which can affect the working or performances in an organization. It can
lead to various management conflicts. The 4 Pillars of employee Relations are Communication,
Recognition, Feedback and Investment in employees. Balfour Beatty PLC. is a British
infrastructure company which provides services like construction, support services and
infrastructure investments in various countries.
This report will analyse the various practical and legal issues that the organizations face in
the management of their Human Resources. The recommendations for the same issues in context
to Balfour Beatty PLC. will be also discussed.
The practical and legal challenges in management of the employment relationship within
the workplace
The company is planning to open its subsidiary in Germany. There can be a number of
practical and legal challenges which can affect employee relationships at the Balfour Beatty.
These issues can affect the performance and working of the employees (Dieuaide and Azaïs,
2020). Some of the issues that can be faced by the management of an organization are
Conflicts between employees:
 Every organization comprises of employees from diverse cultures, beliefs, values and
thinking. With these variations conflicts at a workplace are inevitable (Catley and et.al.,
2017).
 One of the factor of these conflicts can be that the organization's hierarchy is formulated
in such a way that the employees cannot communicate with each other.
 When these misunderstanding are created then the employees will not be willing to work
with each other and the organization will face an unhealthy competition among the
employees themselves.
Work life balance issues:
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 With the excessive workload, the employees might not get time for their personal life.
The reason for this imbalance can be that there organizational objectives does not match
with their personal objectives.
 When employees cannot balance their personal life with their professional life, they will
feel stressed and demotivated (Williams and Kumar, 2018).
Discipline issues:
 The most common rules breached by the employees are unauthorized absence and misuse
of emails or internet provided at workplace (Badubi, 2017).
 The other issues can be poor time keeping or poor performance of the employees .
Issue of Safety at workplace:
 The company is dealing in construction business, which itself is a dangerous work.
 The other country have different equipments to work upon and employees might not be
familiar with those equipments. This can cause a lot of trouble to the company in safety
of the employees (Lal, Sahu and Mishra, 2021).
 The organizations where the employee does not feel safe, they will tend to be take
frequent leaves.
Annual Leave disputes:
 Every company have different leave structure. So many times the employees can get
confused about those complex structures and that can cause disputes at the workplace.
 Leave policies that Balfour Betty have in UK might not comply with the leave structures
in Germany. This can cause a lot of disputes between the employees.
 This can also affect the coordination between the employees of both the companies.
Technological Issues:
 Due to dynamic working environment, the organization may need to change its
technology for keeping up with market trends (Rogers, 2020).
 The company is trying to set up its subsidiary in Germany, which much more advanced
than the headquarter country. The employees might not be able to cope up with the
working environment in the subsidiary company. This will create hurdles in achieving
organizational objectives and thus the working and decision making of company will be
delayed.
Hour and wages issues:
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