Practical and Legal Challenges in Managing Employment Relationship at H&M

Assessment – 2
Work And The
Employment
Relationship

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY........................................................................................................................................3
1. Determine the practical and legal challenges that business experience in managing employment
relationship........................................................................................................................................3
2. Recommendations to set issues in employment relations..............................................................5
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The employment relationship refers as to build employee engagement and
involvement with collaboration of managers, leaders and employees. It is essential for
business to focus on developing good relations of workforce which results in achieving
success efficiently that leads to compete with rivalries. The organisation selected for this
project is Hennes and Mauritz (H&M) as being a Swedish multinational clothing-retail
company known for its fast-fashion clothing for men, women and children (Bernhardt and
Krause, 2014). It operates in 74 countries with over 5,000 stores under various brands with it
headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. This project determines the practical and legal challenge
that business experience in managing employment relationship. Additionally, it further
recommends set of issues within business related to employment relations.
MAIN BODY
1. Determine the practical and legal challenges that business experience in managing
employment relationship
Hennes and Mauritz (H&M):- The Hennes and Mauritz Company is a multinational
clothing-retail company known for its fast-fashion clothing for men, women and children. It
operates in 74 countries with over 5,000 stores under various brands with it headquarters in
Stockholm, Sweden. The company consists of 126,000 full-time equivalent positions with its
stock price as SEK – 130.00. It was founded by Erling Persson on 4th October, 1947 at
Vasteras, Sweden. The Chief Executive Officer of organisation is Karl-Johan Person on 1st
July, 2009. It competitors are Zara, C&A, Bershka, etc., which develops competitive
strategies to compete in global market for sustaining in global market (Burroni and Pedaci,
2014).
Employment Relations:- This is defined as the process through which company
develops co-ordination among their employers and employees for completing a specific task
within particular duration. Managers of H&M Company build good employment relations
among their workers as to encourage them to complete task efficiently in order to achieve
individual and organisational goals. It is essential for the company to sustain in perfect
competition market by improving its competitive strategies. This further focuses on
developing intrinsic strength for controlling weakness and extrinsic opportunities to minimise
threats by taking precautionary steps (Carter, 2019).
Practical and Legal challenge in employment relationships:- There are various
types of practical and legal challenge in employment relationships which are mostly
experienced by company. It further delay in goal accomplishment and lacks in proper
management of employee relations. The managers of H&M Company analyse these
challenge as to restrict the possibility of instability in perfect competition market.
 Conflict management:- The main challenge of conflicts between various workers
within the whole workforce result in lack of discipline, distrust and unfaith,