Managing Employee Relationship Case Study 2022

Running head: MANAGING EMPLOYEE RELATIONSHIP
Managing Employee Relationship
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Analysis
The most common type of exploitation in the workplace is that the employees are not
fairly paid. They are most often underpaid and they are made to work more than what they can
offer to the organization. Their labor engagement is exploited and they are paid very low
compared to the experience and the qualifications that the employees have and what job tasks
they are capable of performing. A similar kind of exploitation the workers of the Chemist
warehouse faced in Preston and in Melbourne. They claim that they were bullied in the
workplace and they rose to an indefinite strike demanding a hike in their daily wages. This
would indeed have not affected the medicine supplies but would have a significant impact on the
retail stock supplies.
The Frames of Reference by Allan Fox involves three references- the Unitarist, the Plurarist
Approach and the Radical approach (Thunnissen, Boselie & Fruytier, 2013).
a. Unitarist Approach
According to the Unitarist approach, all the members share the same kind of
interests and become united and homogenous. This approach to the development of the
organisations suggest that all the workers of the organisation are in agreement with the
project or the decision. If there is any diversification from the common vision or goal, it
can lead to the poor management that would not help in articulating what the actual target
is. The companies who use this frame of approach make sure that there is a strong sense
of cooperation and sharing of a mutual goal between the employees and the employer
which makes the employees focus on their primary aim (Wise, 2013). A Strike in this
kind of approach is considered to be destructive since it has the tendency to consume the

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overall profitability of the organisation and eventually everyone is harmed. The strike
that the staff members of the Chemist Warehouse had put up includes a unitarist approach
since they were all working and raising their voice towards a single demand that is to
have an increase in their wages.
b. Plurarist Approach
The second frame of reference, the Pluralist approach involves a compromising
and a collective bargaining approach. This is because it recognizes that different opinions
and interests within the groups could arise any kind of conflicts. In this kind of reference,
the power resides with the manager solely resulting in the increase of frustration among
the employees of the organization. There is more than a source of power in the
relationship between the leaders or the managers of the business and between the
employees. The Union group is often the central component to this kind of approach as it
tends to bring in a balance of power between the leaders and the employees. According to
this approach a strike or conflict between the members of the organisation is inevitable
but still the key component of the innovation of the company. The labor force were
underpaid which resulted in a conflict among the employees, since the power resided
only with the managers of the company. Thus it was a sort of pluralist approach on the
behalf of the retail pharmacy and the managers.
c. Radical Approach
The radical frame of response implies that the employees are bound to have
conflicts with the managers as a result of capitalism (Van Doorn, 2017). This approach
consists both the benefits as well as limitations towards the employee relationship. It
involves trade unions who can work together to protect the rights of the employees.