Importance of Employee Relations and Recommendations to Improve Employee Relations

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Task 1...........................................................................................................................................3
Importance of Employee Relation and Recommendations to improve employee relations -.....3
Task 2...........................................................................................................................................5
Distinct Rights, obligations and duties of employers and employees.........................................5
Task 3...........................................................................................................................................6
Stakeholder Analysis of Tesco and stakeholder’s contribution in employment relationship -. . .6
Task 4...........................................................................................................................................8
Positive and Negative Impacts employee relation on Stakeholders -..........................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Employee Relations refers to relations between the employee and the employer at the workplace.
Companies today are trying hard to become more nimble, faster and translucent, and due to this
organisations have started focusing more on employee communication. The key objective of
employee relations concept is to refine relationships and cooperation at workplace.
Tesco is multinational company of UK having its operations in many countries. Company deals
in various product lines and is the market leader in UK for groceries.
This report elaborate about the value and importance of employee relations in Tesco, different
types of duties and obligations an employer and employees have in the company and conducts
the stakeholder analysis for Tesco. Further, this report examines the influence employee
relationships on different stakeholders.
MAIN BODY
Task 1.
Importance of Employee Relation and Recommendations to improve employee relations -
Employee Relations can be defined as practical and contractual relationship between the
employee and the employer which focuses on enhancing the relationship between the manager
and the team members (Curtin, 2019). It also highlights the efforts that the HR department makes
to maintain and manage this relationship. Employee relations play the key role in improving the
overall performance of Tesco.
Increased employee Loyalty – Employees generally don’t think much about changing their jobs
if they feel that the culture of the company is not workable. If the company ignore the chances of
enhancing the lost employee relations it may not only increase the monetary cost but also
sometimes impact the brand image. Tesco ensure that how their workforce (employees) feel and
provide them opportunities for advance career.
Heightened Motivation – Healthy relations at workplace boost the morale of employees and they
give their best to attain the objective of the company (Freedland and Dhorajiwala, 2019). Tesco
not only have to maintain the good relations just by good communication, company has to
enhance the relationship by recognising the efforts of its employees. For eg. Tesco after monthly
performance evaluation of its employees has to appreciate them for their efforts towards the
organisation.

Decrease in Conflicts in Workplace – One of the major reasons of unsuccessful business is
conflicts, it generally arise due to differences in manager and employee. If these issues are not
solved at initial stage may sometimes have serious consequences. Tesco’s Manager should be
unbiased in decision making as this reduces the chances of conflicts.
Enhance the work-life Balance – Managers due to the hectic work schedules do not have time
for rejuvenation and due to this the employee in the company also feel frustrated and
demotivated because of excess workload (Sharma, 2020). For eg. As Tesco is the market leader,
so have the work pressure but because of various reasons this situation could arise which may
lower the employee relations, so for that managers need to take actions regarding employee
issues so that his or employees work life balance is maintained.
It is extremely essential for the smooth working of Tesco to take care of fundamentals of
employments law and its applicability in the Company (Fahed-Sreih, 2020). As these laws,
regulate the relationship between employee and employer, employment laws such as employee
right, national minimum wage, maternity and paternity leave, employee relation, transfer of
undertaking etc few of them are discussed-
Employment Right Act, 1996 – This act covers the employment laws related to employment
contracts, wrong and unfair dismissal, redundancy etc that are to be practiced at workplace.
Employment Relation Act, 1999 – This act establish no. of rights at work for recognition of trade
union and industrial action, ensures that effective relations are maintained between the employee
and employer at workplace.
National Minimum Wage Act,1998 – This law is applicable for the all the companies and
business and the amount changes from time to time, this ensures that minimum compensation is
to be paid to the workers.
As the good employee relations in Tesco will lower its turnover and increase the productivity
here are few suggestion to effectively improve employee relations –
a) Company should focus on promoting dialogues and communications, as effective
communications can avoid the chances of confusions by providing clarity (Unsal and
Brodmann, 2020).
b) Tesco should inspire and motivate its employees by using performance management
through this employee will get clarity about the areas which need to be improved and
rewarding them will make them give their best.