The Role of The Main Players in Employee Relations
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Employee Relations
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................31.1 Explaining the unitary and pluralistic frames of reference....................................................31.2 Assessing how changes in trade unionism have affected employee relations.......................41.3 Explaining the role of the main players in employee relations.............................................5TASK 2............................................................................................................................................62.1 Explaining the procedures that Sainsbury should follow to deal with different conflictsituations......................................................................................................................................62.2 Explaining the key features of employee relations in a selected conflict situation..............72.3 Evaluating the effectiveness of procedures used in a selected conflict situation.................8TASK 3............................................................................................................................................83.1 Explaining the role of negotiation in collective bargaining..................................................83.2 Assessing the impact of negotiation strategy ......................................................................10TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................104.1 Assessing the influence of the EU on industrial democracy in the UK .............................104.2 Comparing the methods to be used to gain employee participation and involvement in thedecision making process ...........................................................................................................114.3 Assessing the impact of human resource management on employee relation....................13CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................152
INTRODUCTIONEmployee relations are basically the efforts that a company makes to maintain therelationship between employee and employer while working for organization. It helps inproviding fair and consistent treatment to employees so that they will be committed to job(Kersley and et.al., 2013). This also helps in resolving various problems that arises at workplaceThe main focus of employee relation program is on various issues affecting employees that arepay, benefits, work life balance as well as safe working conditions. Sainsbury Plc is a groceryretailing organization based in UK. Its headquarter is situated at London, UK. It is a secondlargest chain of supermarkets in United Kingdom (About Sainsbury Plc, 2016). Further the reportwill include brief explanation on role of main players in employee relation. Also will analysesthe key factors of employee relation that can be used under selective conflict situation. Also willevaluate the effectiveness of the procedure used under such conflict situation. Later will asses theimpact of negotiation strategy to resolve the conflict situation in Salisbury organization. At lastthe report will include a brief comparisons of the methods that ares to gain involvement as wellas employee participation under decision making process. TASK 11.1 Explaining the unitary and pluralistic frames of referenceThere are many stakeholders who are associated with the company like employees, owners,shareholders, government, suppliers and customers. They either lose or gain because of theemployee relations in the organization (Larson, 2015). Good relations between the employeesand employer tends to bring the best from the employees. Furthermore, it leads to enhance theefficiency, effectiveness as well as productivity. There are two major frames of references whichcan be used by Sainsbury plc. Those are:Unitary frame: Unitary perspective sees the entire organization as a team. There is highlevel of mutual cooperation and dependency between employers and employees. They focus oncollective, integrated as well as harmonious activities that lead towards the foundation ofcommon goals (Fossum, 2014). Elements such as collective bargaining as well as trade unionsare considered as unnecessary for the organization. The employees those who are working inSainsbury Plc also share common goals and they work together to achieve the organizational3
goals. Following approach has also been point out because it deprives the employees fromunionism and it can be exploitative and manipulative. Pluralistic frame: Pluralistic frame allows the employees to form competing interestgroups. There are many situations where the management is unable to take care of all the needs,demands and requirements of the employees (Van Wanrooy and et.al., 2013). As a result ofwhich the employees are allowed to form groups so that their interest and rights can be protected.This approach is found in companies where there are large number of employees. Sainsbury Plchas 161,100 number of workers and it is impossible for them to meet the expectations of eachand every employee (Shields and et.al., 2015). Hence it will be beneficial for the employees touse pluralistic approach as it will help them to identify the expectations and demand of theemployees. 1.2 Assessing how changes in trade unionism have affected employee relationsThere has been some of the significant changes taken place in the trade unionism whichhas affected employee relations in UK. The demand of trade union has increased with theglobalization and changing business perspective. Also many businesses in United Kingdom havechanged their strategies as well as policies to incorporate trade unionism (Armstrong and Taylor,2014). But it has also created numerous difficulty due to the intense collective bargaining oftrade unions. In March 2000, GMB trade union started a campaign against SainsburyOrganization. Because of which employees of Sainsbury claimed that the following policies arenot in support of workers. This incident forced the company to make changes in their policies. Itwould not have been possible in the past but with the growth of trade unionism, employeerelations have improved. A trade union includes members of Sainsburry Plc. The main aim of trade union is to protect the rights and interests of the members. It actsas a mediator between the company and employees. The most common purpose for a union is toimprove the existing working conditions, wages, changes in labour safety contracts at workplaceetc. Trade unions became very popular in Britain after the Industrial Revolution. Apart from this,it is also beneficial for the chose grocery retail organization (Poole, 2013). It gives anopportunity to the management so that they can understand the needs to their employees. It helpsin the development of employee relations and promotes integrity in the organization. Sainsburyhas also changed its human resource planning as it has been beneficial for them. They have4
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