BMP6005: Navigating Practical and Legal Challenges in Employment

This presentation identifies and discusses the practical and legal challenges that organizations face in managing the employment relationship, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Key challenges include cost optimization, managing work-from-home policies, team conflicts, ensuring workplace safety, and promoting equality. The presentation offers recommendations such as developing employee skills, providing work-from-home amenities, implementing conflict management strategies, and fostering workplace equality through improved communication and inclusive hiring practices. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining positive employee relations to ensure employee loyalty, engagement, and overall organizational success. The presentation concludes by highlighting the role of human resources in managing employee relations and suggests adopting two-way communication strategies to foster innovation and adapt to new trends.

BSC (Hons) Business Management
(Top-up)
BMP6005 Work and the Employment
Relationship

Assessment 2: Individual Presentation
Practical and legal challenges that organisations
experience in managing the employment
relationship
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Contents
• Introduction
• Practical and Legal challenges in employment
relationship
• Recommendations to a set of employment relations issues
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
Employee relation is defined as such efforts which are exerted by the organisation in order to maintain
positive relationship with employees so that appropriate surroundings can be given to employee. The
major role of employee relationship is related with gaining employee inclination and positivity towards
business processes so that organisational aims and objectives can be attained (Countouris, 2016).

Practical And Legal Challenges In Employment
Relationship
In the pandemic of COVID-19 the major issues faced by an organisation is related with managing
employee relations as due to global issues effects are seen over the workplace. There are various
challenges which are being faced by the organisation and these are related with managing employment
relations as without the employees no function can be executed within the organisation (DeCenzo,
Robbins and Verhulst, 2016). Some of the challenges are elaborated as under:

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Cost optimisation: The major challenge within the time of COVID was related with cost
optimisation as due to minimum sales and profits organisation had to cut down salaries of their
employee which created consequences in managing employee relations. Reduction is salary is the
major strategy adopted by the organisation and this is one of the proactive measures (Ferraro and
Marrone, 2016).

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Work from home policy: The implication of COVID has given various different measurements to
the world and the foremost is emerged culture of working from home. The organisation those are
providing work from home policies are facing issues in interacting with their employees as this is a
challenging task to manage such workforce out of office premises (Guest, 2017).

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Team conflicts: In every organisation, there are numerous teams by which whole the working is
being controlled. In every team authority for decision making is different and this may create team
conflicts. Due to team conflicts employee productivity can be decreased and this manner direct
negative impact can be seen over their efficiency (Kowalski and Loretto, 2017).

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Adequate safety at workplace: Post COVID the major focus of organisation is related with taking
preventive measures so that employee may work within positive and safe environment. This is the
situation when employee feel safe regarding their place of work so that to give their fuller
contribution in organisational success (Latorre and et. al., 2016).

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Managing equality: Managing equality is regarded as one of the major challenge within workforce
as this is related with changing perception of people which is a quite tough job. In order to manage
equality the organisation is required to adopt various laws and its enforcement within the workplace
(Rancan, 2017).

Recommendations To A Set Of Employment
Relations Issues
In order to manage the issue of cost optimization the organisation is required to develop skills and
capabilities of their employees so that they can work with optimised level and acquire business
success as well. Optimised staff is the key for managing the employees and their skills in such a way
that they can work in contingencies as well and render their fuller strength to the business (Sobral,
Chambel and Castanheira, 2019).

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For dealing with the challenge of work from home this is required to be assured by the organisation
that they provide ample amenities to their staff so that employee may feel happy to work within
work from home aspect. In order to develop such proceedings at home this is responsibility of the
organisation that to provide some stress relieving activities to their workforce so that employee may
develop their productivity and work life balance as well. Most employers are still uncertain whether
to continue remote work because the blockade restrictions have been lifted in their area, but the fact
is that remote work is a new common sense. For years to come, the business revolution will have a
major impact on organisations and workplaces (Strolka, 2019).