Managing Human Resources: Employee Well-being and Initiatives at Marks and Spencer and Tesco

Managing
Human Resources

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
The concept of Employee well-being..........................................................................................3
Marks and Spencer’s Efforts at Employee Wellbeing.................................................................5
Tesco attempts Employee wellbeing initiatives...........................................................................7
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management (HRM) is one of the major function in an
organization. Top-level management in each company or business is responsible to properly
manage people in their workplace. A company is able to achieve an effective workforce by
managing people in their business environment. Organization are uses various HRM
techniques or strategies to manage people or employees in productive manner. There is
human resource management plays very great role in improving skills and workability of
existing employees as well. HR manager is always responsible to take orders from their upper
management to run their human resource management practices on progressive path. This
report discusses 'Employees Well-being', its nature, limits in general practice and its scope.
Role of top-level management and HRM in functions of 'employees well-being' also has
discussed in this report.
The concept of Employee well-being
Well-being can be defined as the experience of health, happiness and prosperity or
other word just feeling of well. Well-being encompasses good mental health, level of
satisfaction and ability to reduce stress level. Well-being is important for person because it
helps to keep people safe from physical, mental and emotional stress. It also helps people to
meet their objectives by managing their stress level. Well-being is not only help to manage
stress level but also lead change in outlook (Arnold, 2017). This concept is applied for
organization as well because employee’s well-being is most important then they can focus on
workplace. Employees well-being is a sign of prosperity of organization because it
encourages employees to give high quality services to customer within workplace. Workplace
well-being interlinks to overall prospect of working life, from quality of working to safety of
the working environment and helps to understand that what employees thinks about their job
responsibilities, working environment and work culture of company. Even it helps to
determine long term effectiveness of organization. Employees wellbeing has wide scope in
organization. For example, when organization maintains employees wellbeing within
workplace in that state productivity of employees become high because they don’t suffer
from health risk disease and happy emotionally which enhance turnover of employees. It
leads highly skilled employee within workplace because when they mentally, physically and

emotionally stable which improvs their grasping power as result gets multitasker employees
within company (Agnihotri and Agnihotri, 2018). Employee wellbeing also reduces cost of
health care costs. For example, organization offers health insurance policies to employees.
According to the policies if employees get unwell and takes treatment from hospital in that
state organization will pay overall charges on the behalf of them. When employees is well
that automatically decline health care cost. employees wellbeing has wide scope in
organization because it can decrease absenteeism of employee at workplace. there is an
example to understand such as when employees have good health behaviours as reduces
absenteeism. As same when employees enable to control their stress level as result
absenteeism become lower. Other reason to reduce absenteeism is that when employees has
healthy blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose. Obesity is also a sign of absence but when
employees is not overweight then can easy to give attendance. High productivity of
employees within workplace attracts new talent to apply for job. Employee wellbeing leads
high retention of employees within workplace. for example, when employee is physically and
mentally healthy leads satisfaction for their job position and that leads high retention within
company. Employee wellbeing leads high task achievement in organization because self-
actualization boosts them to give high quality work so that easy to meet employers’
objectives. It contains several drawbacks as well for example Employee wellbeing leads high
turnover of employees which leads competitive disadvantage within company. High
wellbeing of employees makes employee over smart in that situation they don’t like to listen
any senior authorities. Apart from this, organization unable to achieve short term goal
because employees don’t take work in serious condition. Thus, employee wellbeing gives
impact on organization performance. It For welfare of employees where laws and regulation
needed to be followed by company to motivate and influence people to work effectively for
growth and success of business. One of the laws that can be used by companies to ensure
well-being of employees and re-tenting their level of satisfaction is duty of care. It means
legal obligation that need of be followed by company while operating various function
(Dembour, Turner and Barrow, 2019). Firms have to ensure health and safety of employees
so that no harm and damaged can be caused to employees of company. Duty care refers to
various steps that are taken by different companies in UK to ensure that no harm and damage
to be caused to works. It helps in improving productivity and performance of person and
helps in achievement of goals. Company can take care of health of employees by providing
attractive compensation, insurance and medical facilities. Suppose if company is earning
large number of profit so it can provide more compensation so that employees are motivated