Managing Employee Relations

Managing Employee
Relations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Section 1..........................................................................................................................................3
Value and importance of employee relations in Tesco................................................................3
Fundamentals of employment law...............................................................................................4
Different types of rights, duties and obligations an employer and employee has within the
workplace.....................................................................................................................................6
Advice relating to rights, duties and obligations of the employment relationship......................8
Section 2..........................................................................................................................................9
Stakeholder analysis....................................................................................................................9
Impact of both positive and negative employee relations on different stakeholders.................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Employee relations refer to efforts of the organisation to build and maintain harmonious
relations that are free of any kind of possibility of conflicts in employee and employer. This
means that an organisation with employee relations program in it ensures fair and consistent
treatment to all employees of the organisation, from the side of employees this contribute in their
commitment to job and loyalty to organisation. This report will discuss about employee relations
in context of its value and importance along with fundamentals of employment law. Later duties,
responsibilities and obligation of employee and employer will also be discussed. Followed by
this report also involve stakeholders and impact of positive and negative employee relations on
the stakeholders. This report will contextualise Tesco for the discussion. Tesco is British
Multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer. Company was founded in 1919 and is
headquartered at Hertfordshire, England. Company is one of the top retailers in UK and operates
in around 9 countries with serving around 6800 locations.
Section 1
Value and importance of employee relations in Tesco
Tesco is one of those organisations that have effective practices for employee relations.
These practices are used by Tesco to boost engagement of employees in organisation that is one
of the very important objectives of every employer concerned with maintaining and practicing
employee relations activities (Unsal and Brodmann, 2020). Some other factors that shows value
and importance of Employee relations are as follows-
Improved Engagement of Employees- This is one of the valuable factor of employee relations
in which Tesco can ensure that employees in the organisation are effectively engaged with
organisation and as well as their job. Employee engagement is a state in which employees
actively participate in their job role that they are able to perform effectively and along with this
they are able to contribute in overall organisational performance.
Retention of Loyal Employees- Loyal employees are those who are willing to work in favour of
the organisation and are loyal and respectful towards organisation. Tesco by maintaining and

employing effective practices for employee relation retain loyal employees in organisation. This
is another importance of employee relations.
Decrease in workplace conflicts- Workplace conflicts is natural and they cannot be completely
removed however with effective practices for employee relations can help in decreasing
workplace conflicts. This is another important factor that makes employee relations valuable in
the organisation. Decrease in workplace conflict will help organisation in achieving its objectives
effectively and also reduces potential negative impact on the work quality in the organisation
(Sahoo and Sahoo, 2018). Workplace conflicts in Tesco can also have an effect on customer
satisfaction and reduction in conflict ensures positive impact on workplace productivity and
overall performance of the Tesco.
Increased Job satisfaction- This is another importance of having positive and favourable
employee relations. Positive relation with management and with other employees in organisation
makes Tesco a happy place for the employees to work for. There are several benefits associated
with this in such kind of an organisation employees can share their knowledge and experiences
with other employees in order to improve work efficiency of every employee in the organisation.
Positive relationship of individuals enhances motivation of the employees and this result in job
satisfaction and work efficiency of the employees. This also result in positive work relations a
reduced absenteeism of the employees and this reduces negative impact on the productivity that
results from absenteeism and employee turnover.
Enhance Trust in employee and employer- Trust is important for a feeling of secure and trust
also enhance performance of employee. This enhances understanding in employee and employer
and followed by this performance also gets improved and feeling of trust is also important.
Fundamentals of employment law
Employment law can be defined as collection of rules and regulations that regulate
relationship between employee and employer. Several concepts are included in employment law
when it comes to managing and maintaining employment in Tesco (Levin, 2017). Fundamental
of employment law are-
Contract of Employment