Employee Relations: Collective Bargaining, EU Influence, HRM Report

This report, prepared by Cristina Adriana Laslau, examines employee relations within the context of an HND Business L4 course. It begins by defining collective bargaining as a negotiation process between employers and employees, emphasizing its role in industrial relations and conflict resolution. The report then explores the influence of the EU on industrial democracy and partner-based relationships, highlighting the importance of employee involvement in decision-making. It further analyzes industrial democracy in the UK, discussing the impact of European legislation and the significance of employee participation and involvement. Various methods for achieving employee participation, such as attitude surveys, quality circles, and suggestion schemes, are outlined, along with the decline of certain methods. The report also covers the human resource management approach and its impact on employee relations, emphasizing the establishment of long-term relationships through employee involvement, training, and development. Finally, it references key sources on collective bargaining and employee relations.

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Employee
Relations
Student:Cristina Adriana Laslau
Student Id No: 12409
Lecturer: Konstantinos Nikolaidis
Course: HND Business L4

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Collective bargaining is a process where the
negotiations about the terms and conditions with
regards to a specific situation of conflict take place
between the employer and a group or association
of persons. The situation of conflict in the collective
bargaining process relates to the conflicts which
arise among the employees due to protection of
their employment rights. It is regarded as an
effective tool or mechanism for the development of
industrial relationship or employment relations.
Collective
bargaining

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 Industrial democracy is very important
concept that determines the democratic
practices used by both the employers and
employees in business entity.
 EU policies has also advanced the partner
based relationship which assist in promotion of
diverse aspects. Partner based relationship
allows to have better decision making
processs. Along with this, it also allows
employees make feel valueable in
organisation.
Influence of the EU

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Industrial democracy
in UK
It is the arrangement in
which the workers of
the industries are also
involved in the decision
making process of the
workplace and sharing
of authority and
responsibility with the
workers as well by the
managers.

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In the British companies, the employee relations that
exist between managers and employees s aggressive
therefore the structure of industrial democracy which
has been in place since decades is not relevant.
In this scenario, the European legislation is quite
important which enhances the role f workers in the
decision making policy of the firm.
The influence of EU has resulted in the practices
which encourage the education of management and
employees about contribution of workers involvement
in success of the organization.
Influence of EU

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It is the process which focuses on the
involvement and participation of employees in
the decision making process of an organization.
The effect of this one hand is the motivation of
employees and on other hand is the effective
decisions since the decisions are made by the
persons directly involved with the operations for
which decisions are being made.
Employee participation and
involvement

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There are various methods which can be
adopted by the organizations for gaining the
participation and involvement of employees for
making decisions. These are as follows:
1. Attitude survey – This is the method which
involves using questionnaires for getting
responses, conducting interviews and focus
group discussions to identify the attitude of
employees for industrial democracy.
Methods to gain employee participation
and involvement in decision-making
process

Quality circle – This method focuses n developing
an improvement group mong the workers so that
problems can be resolved within groups which arise
as a result of attitude of managers where the
knowledge existing at other levels of organization is
ignored by managers.
Suggestion Scheme – This method involves inviting
suggestions from the workers for the decisions
proposed to be taken by the managers. It is
effective for industrial democracy since it gives an
opportunity to workers to convey their opinions to
the management.

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 Management can be adopt an approach of
consultation that could increase employee
participation and involvement in the decision
making process and various other practices of
organization.
 Effective consideration over feedback process
is also beneficial to consider because it allows
to understand their needs. Job enrichment is
also referred as key value which assist in
meeting objectives.
Contd...

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Direct participation – This method of worker
participation and involvement comprises of the
allowing of direct reticulation of workers in the
decisions which relate to daily work routines of the
workers.

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 Suggestion schemes
 Direct participation
Methods that gained popularity

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 Attitude surveys
 Quality circles
 Focus improvement groups
Methods that
declined