Employment Relationship: Challenges and Recommendations for ASDA

This report examines the employment relationship, highlighting its importance in organizational success and employee motivation. It identifies practical challenges such as time and attendance issues, leave disputes, salary concerns, and communication gaps, as well as legal challenges including discrimination, diversity issues, and the provision of a safe working environment. The analysis focuses on ASDA, providing recommendations for implementing effective software for managing attendance and leave, improving communication, and adhering to government policies to foster a positive and productive work environment. The report concludes that a strong employment relationship is crucial for achieving organizational goals and offers strategies for mitigating conflicts and enhancing employee well-being.

Work and the Employment Relationship

Table of content
Introduction
Employment relationship
Practical and legal challenges related to employment relationship
Recommendations
Conclusion
References

Introduction
Employment relationship will define a link between employee and employee in an
organisation. A healthy and strong relationship between them will assist in
maintaining a healthy culture and environment inside an organisation that will
assist in creating a good image of company. Employment relationship will play a
crucial role in growth and success of an organisation. By developing an effective
relationship employer will able to reduce misunderstanding between them and
motivate their employees to do woke with their full efficiency and productivity. It
will help an organisation in smoothly perform their business operations or work of
organisation. Good relation between employee & employer will beneficial for
both development of employees & also for development of company.

Employment relationship
It refers to a link between employee & employer. It will exist when a
person in an organisation will perform work or services under certain
condition in return for remuneration. It is analysis that with the help of
employment relationship effective rights & obligations are created
between employee & employers of company. It is consider as a main
vehicle through which workers will gain access to rights & benefits
associated with employment in the area of labour law & social security.
Employee relations will define the efforts of an organisation for
creating and maintaining positive relationship with it's employees.

Practical and legal challenges related to
employment relationship
In relevance of ASDA company, employer will face various
problems related to practical & legal issue while developing
employment relationship. It is analysis that because of these
issues conflicts & disputes will increases between employer &
employee, which will affect growth of organisation. It is
analysis that these issues in organisation will negatively affect
their relationship and reduce their employee productivity &
performance that will affect company profitability or success.
In context of ASDA company, various practical & legal
challenges are mention below:

Practical challenges
Time & attendance- One of the biggest issue that
every organisation will face and which will affect the
relationship between employee & employer is related to
working hours & their attendance. When employees do
work for extra hours and does not get any benefit then it
will create disputes between them and also reduce their
employees performance. Hence it is very important for
selected company to formulate & implement an
effective working hours policy in their organisation.

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Leave disputes- It is analysis that different
organisation will have different policies related to leave
from applications to disputes. It is also an reason which
will create conflicts between employee & employer. It
is very important for an organisation to effectively
communicate employees leave entitlement and how to
adhere to the process for a smooth requisition because
this challenge will occur in organisation when their
employees are not aware about the information related
to leave or policies.

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Salary issue- Another challenge that is faced by employer of an
organisation which will influence the employment relationship is
issue related to salary. It refers to the remuneration that a employee
will receive in exchange of their work. Every employee wants that
they will receive fair and good remuneration in exchange of their
work and also their salary will increase after some time. Hence it is
consider as an common issues that will be faced by every
employee in organisation. It is analysis that any kind of problem in
salary will directly affect the efficiency and productivity of their
employers. This is because it will create conflicts between
employee and employer & affect their relationship

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Lack of communication- Another challenge that will
influence the employment relationship and cause for
creating conflicts & misunderstanding between employees
and employer of an organisation is lack of communication
between them. For developing an effective relationship it is
very important that both employee and employer are
communicate effectively without any barriers. This is
because lack of communication at workplace will enhance
misunderstanding between them and effect their
relationship.

Legal challenges
Discrimination- Most important challenge which will affect
the employment relationship and also affect the image of an
organisation is discrimination. It refers to various unfair
activity and prejudicial treatment of people on the bases of
their colour, age, gender and so on. It is analysis that there
are many employees who are discriminated in organisation
by other employees or by higher authorities. It will not only
affect their relationship with them but also cause a negative
effect on the mental condition of employees

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Diversity- Another important legal challenge that an
organisation will face & it will effect the relationship
between employee & employer. An organisation diversity
in workplace refers to the total make-up of employee
workforce and the amount of diversity included. Here
diversity means differences in various defining personal
traits such as age, gender, religion, education and various
other secondary qualities. It is analysis that in an
organisation employees from different background or
religion are work because of which they are treated unequal
in organisation.

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Safe work environment- Another issue that will affect the
employment relationship is related to the health & safety of
their employees. It is analysis that every employee in an
organisation wants that they will work in a healthy and safe
environment where their health will not effect and they will
perform better. It is consider as the biggest issue that most of
the organisation will face and will affect relationship
between employee and employer. If organisation will not
provide an safe environment to their employees then it quite
difficult for company to retain their employees for long
period.