How Employee Relations Influence Stakeholder Behavior

How employee relations can
influence the behaviour of
different stakeholders

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Explain the value and importance of employee relations...........................................................3
Explain the fundamentals of employment law............................................................................4
Suggestions to improve employee relations................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Explain different types of rights, duties and obligations which employer and employee carry
at workplace................................................................................................................................5
Evaluation of psychological contract and support for employee work life balance with
employment relationship.............................................................................................................5
Explore various mechanisms to manage the employment relationship and make justified
solutions......................................................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
Conduct stakeholder analysis to identify the involvement of stakeholders and their
contribution to support positive employment relationships........................................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
Analyse the impact of both positive and negative employee relations on various stakeholders 8
Evaluate how positive and negative employee relationships can impact conflict avoidance and
resolution.....................................................................................................................................8
Examine the suitable perspective of stakeholders perspective and interest in business
environment.................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Employee relation refers to the prominent effort of an organisation which they do in
terms of managing their relationship with employees. A company must have good employee
relations as it tends to offer fair and consistent treatment to all the employees considering their
commitment regarding job and loyal to an organisation. The objective of this program is to solve
critical problems which occur from various situations at the workplace (Kang and Sung, 2017).
Employee relations is the significant part of human resource strategy which is developed in terms
of making sure for the effective use of individuals to accomplish their significant mission and
vision. For this, human resource strategies tends to depict effective plans and tactics which are
used by company in terms of gaining and maintaining prominent competitive edge in the market.
To carry forward the report, Marks and Spencer is considered which is the British multinational
retailer headquarter in London, England and deals in clothing, home and food products with its
own label. Company was founded by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in 1884. The report
tends to cover the suitable knowledge and understanding regarding the prominent approaches
considering the employment relationship and also tends to identify the roles and responsibilities
of stakeholders by influencing the employment relationship.
TASK 1
Explain the value and importance of employee relations
Every employee at the organisation tends to share effective relations with their
subordinates as an isolated environment tends to demotivate individuals and tends to spread
negativity around them. Therefore, it is essential for Marks and Spencer to have healthy relations
with their employees in terms of making them comfortable with each other and also work
collectively in terms of achieving common goals and objectives. Therefore, significance of
employee relation is mentioned as:
 By having healthy relations among employees and employers of Marks and Spencer
tends to share their work with themselves and makes their work quite easy that leads to
increase their productivity and overall performance (Bosse and Coughlan, 2016). For this,
prominent responsibilities are classified among team members to achieve their assigned
work within given time period.

 Healthy relations leads to eliminate conflicts and fights among the employees as
individuals tends to adjust prominently and stop finding faults among them. For this,
employees of Marks and Spencer does not waste their time for the senseless conflicts and
also concentrate on performing better.
Explain the fundamentals of employment law
Employment law is the significant area of norms and laws that leads to govern the
employee and employer relations. Hence, business must have more than one employee then they
are likely to use effective employment law by undertaking both state and federal laws with
common goals and objectives to protect rights of employees. Few laws are mentioned as:
Worker's compensation: This act is the form of insurance that leads to pay workers who
gets injured or disable while performing their job role (Punjaisri and Wilson, 2017). Accepting
worker's compensation is beneficial as in this, employee waives the right to sue the employer. In
terms of Marks and Spencer, they tends to undertake this law which is helpful to get trust and
faith of employees and also tends to motivate them to perform their job role.
Equality act: As per this act, no company can make any sort of discrimination on the
basis of caste, gender, religion and many more. It depict that each and every employee has equal
rights to get pay on the grounds of their overall performance. Therefore, Marks and Spencer has
huge amount of workforce in terms of dealing at the global level and also belongs from various
nations. Hence, the HR manager of Marks and Spencer need to develop prominent standard for
their employees that leads to eliminate discrimination among them.
Suggestions to improve employee relations
There are various ways which can be opted by Marks and Spencer in terms of improving
employee relation which are discussed as:
 The employer of Marks and Spencer need to involve their team members in terms of
assigning prominent roles and responsibilities as per their interest.
 Motivate employees to prominently share their work with each other as it leads to
eliminate burden from them at the time of taking decisions.
 Employer need to assign work considering the prominent targets for the team members in
terms of having effective contribution to accomplish desired outcome within stipulated
period of time.