Work and Employment Relationships.

Work and Employment
Relationships

INTRODUCTION
Employees and employee relationships plays a significant role in keeping people within
the organisation happy and satisfied who are attached in day to day operations of the company
and execute all plans developed by management for success and growth. The concept of
employee relations brings in great value and enable the company to develop a competitive edge
through retaining and inducing the best talents within the firm and make them work with their
full potentials as they are motivated enough to work with their best efforts. The factor and
elements of employee relations leads the world of business and the respective organisations
towards success and effective implementation of plans. The approach of maintaining and
developing strong relations amongst employers and employees has a strong influence over
behaviours of people and different stakeholders associated to the firm. Hence, for the present
report Tesco is chosen as the referring organisation. The company deals in retail sector and
working since 1919 when it was founded as small retail shop. Tesco is located and headquartered
in United Kingdom, know as the second largest company in retail sector around the world and
serves to several large markets. The report is focusing on number of aspects related to employee
relations and development as it will be conducting discussion over employment laws and many
other aspects.
TASK 1
Explain the value and importance of employee relations in application to specific organizational
context.
Employees relations is considered and defines as the process by which people are
engaged with management and leaders in effective conversations and builds relations with one
another. The concept of employee relation revolves around developing strong bonds between
employer and employee and reducing the existing conflicts and future changes if any. The
importance of employee relation is elaborated below in context of Tesco Plc (Berkelaar, 2017).
 Increased productivity- Healthy and effective relations with the employees of the
company employer makes worker to be highly engaged in their assigned work and
perform with their full potentials in regards to fulfil company's objectives. The fact that
employee engagement and performance standards induced the productivity of Tesco
automatically enhances.

 Discourage conflicts and fights- Employee relations has the strongest ability to reduce
conflicts in the work environment amongst people and also in between people and
management. The process enable making employee adjust according to the situation and
avoid any restraints which will lead to conflicts. For Tesco, reduced conflicts amongst
people enable the company a change to develop a safe and healthy work place for people
to work in (Reimann, Pausch and Diewald, 2017).
 Reduces absenteeism- Employee relations brings, employee satisfaction with the job
assigned, increase their engagement in company's productivity and majorly help in
increasing their performances in regards to effective working. Hence, another importance
which is significant for Tesco in regards to employee relations is reduced absenteeism
and increasing employee retention ratio of the organisation.
Fundamentals of employment law
The employment law of UK is established with the focus of keeping people that is
workers belonging to separate industries and organisations safe through respective guidelines
and regulations. There are number of act and regulations developed by the government of UK to
safeguard the interest of the employees. These laws and regulations provides different kinds of
rights of the employees in company like safe system of company, equality in relation with salary
and wages, etc. Few employment laws that Tesco has to comply and elaborated as follow
(Atkinson, Mallett and Wapshott, 2016).
 Equality act, 2010- This act embodies various principles which suggests that all
employees of the organisation has the right to be treated equally and in the right manner.
This law prohibits discrimination on certain grounds which are provided under the law
such as race, disability, marital status etc. The act has to be comply by the management
of Tesco that ensures all employees in the organisation are treated equally.
 Job security- Contracts of Employment Act 1963, Redundancy Payments Act 1965 and
the Industrial Relation Act 1971 are the principle act that ensures job security. These acts
constructed to obligate organisations to follow various regulations such as at least one
week notice before dismissal, dismissal must be fair in order to offer job security to
people and employees placed on separate levels as well as positions in the organisation.