Managing Employee Relations: An Analysis of BCG's Approach

CONSULTANCY REPORT

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Executive Summary
Managing the employee relations has been considered as to be the vital processes for any of the
concerned organization as it helps in developing the business processes of the concerned
organization. The primary purpose of the paper is to outline the current levels of the trade union
density along with the collective bargaining coverage throughout the South East of England.
There are different approaches adopted by BCG towards managing the employee relations,
which is reflected throughout the paper. The paper will help in evaluating the advantages and
disadvantages of this approach which is adopted by BCG for managing their relations with the
employees. It needs to be understood that the employee voice strategy adopted by BCG for
understanding the vice of the employees towards their work.
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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Main Context...............................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................7
References...................................................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
This study will analyze best practices gaps in various companies along with the approaches to
develop Employee relations. It will also reveal the adopted methods by the managers to manage
the staffs either through their trade unions or one by one. The paper will analyses the voice
strategy managers are using for managing their concerned employees. It is important to identify
the current levels of trade union density and bargaining coverage used by a company. The paper
will also cover the different procedure of union recognition, collective bargaining and the state of
employment relations. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is successfully operating three gardens
centres in South East England. Employee relations means to manage relations between
employees and employers. A firm with a good staff relations program assign a consistent and fair
manner to all staffs, so they were committed properly to their job and faithful towards the
company.
Main Context
Statistical sources
1. Present levels of collective bargaining and trade union density coverage in the South
East of England- Trade Union density and collective bargaining density coverage are
useful to provide an estimate of the levels of trade union membership density for all
workers (Olander and Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, 2015). Trade union Membership statistics
have been produced as a National Statistics. It is the study of the employment
circumstances of the UK population and this is consider as the statistical survey of people
living in private households. To reach agreement preferably to the satisfaction of both
parties is the main goal of collective bargaining. In the UK Less than 29% of all
employees are covered by collective bargaining (Zheng et al., 2015). When bargaining
occurs in the sector of private, collective bargaining is the most important level is at the
company. Bargaining is conducted by employers and trade unions. As stated by today's
statistical release, there are 6.2 million staffs in were trade union members in the UK. In
comparison with 16.3%, non-UK-born staffs were involved in trade union where majority
of UK born staffs is 24.6% in a trade union in 2017.
2. Labor Force Survey regarding trade union members in the South East Retail &
Wholesale and Storage and Transportation industries- The business is divided into
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