Employee Relations: Challenges and Recommendations for Organizations

This report provides an in-depth analysis of employee relations within organizations, focusing on the challenges and offering recommendations for improvement. The introduction establishes the significance of healthy employee-employer relationships for organizational success. The main body examines practical and legal challenges in the contemporary workplace, including conflict management, time and wage issues, health and safety concerns, and attendance problems. It also recommends solutions such as clear holiday policies and ensuring employee safety. The conclusion emphasizes the critical role of employee relations in boosting productivity, loyalty, and commitment. The report highlights the importance of reciprocal rights and obligations based on contracts and agreements, ensuring a positive and productive work environment. The report also includes references to books and journals that support the arguments presented.

STRATEGY EVALUATION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
A) The practical and legal challenges that organisations experience in managing the
employment relationship within the contemporary workplace...................................................3
B) Recommend set of employment relations issues...................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals.....................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Employee relationship is the process of framing healthy and positive relationship
between employee and employer in an organisation. These are develop with the help of
establishment of effective organisational structures which helps in clear reporting relationship.
Furthermore, it helps in forming of relationship which establishes authority and responsibility
between senior and subordinates. It is important for developing effective relationship which
helps in avoiding disputes, conflicts and wastage of resources. Thus, it is essential for employees
to sustain quality relations among each other for the achievement of goals. This leads to
formation of positive work environment resulting in better performance (Foglieni, Villari and
Maffei, 2017). In this report employee relations are analysed with its impact on organisational
performance. It includes various challenges faced by employees and given recommendations
which helps in improving employee relationship in an organisation.
MAIN BODY
A) The practical and legal challenges that organisations experience in managing the employment
relationship within the contemporary workplace.
There are various challenges which can affect employee relationship leading to
development of conflicts and misunderstandings in a company. There are various internal factors
which affects the performance of employees and impacts employee relations. It leads to
fluctuation with the occurrence of uncertain behaviour and nature of complexity in company
environment. Employee relations are vital for the effectiveness of an organisation which has
various benefits in a company. It faces various problems which leads to ineffective behaviour
and bad performance. These challenges are as following:
Conflict management- Conflict is one of the leading factor which affects the
performance of an employee. It is important to resolve various issues leading from conflicts due
to presence of various different personalities in a company. Thus, conflict management is one of
the critical aspect which affects the overall performance of an employee. Employee relations can
be maintained effectively with the help of effective management of human resource department.
It can help in reducing occurrence of conflicts in a company with strong redress team (Grissom
and Bartanen, 2019). Thus, conflict management is one of the leading issue faced by employees
with the presence of work diversity and people working in teams with different backgrounds.

Time and wage issues- Time and wages issue is another challenge faced by the
employees of a company. It affects the overall performance and arises dissatisfaction with the
compensation procedures. It is important to provide adequate wages for the given hours an
employee has performed its job. This leads to development of various issues which can have
negative impact on the employee relationship. It has become one of the common issue faced by
employees stating not satisfied with their pay structures (Leung and D, 2019). Number of hours
work performed by an employee should have effective wage system in a company. Wages are
one of the major factor which affects employee commitment and satisfaction leading to bad
performances. Thus, it is one of the major challenge in the life of employees which hampers the
relationship among employees within a company.
Health and safety issues- This challenge has been faced by employees majorly with
ineffective working conditions. It is one of the major issue which affect employee relationship
due to presence of various health and safety concerns. In this various issues are concerned which
can have negative impact on the performance of employee (Shitong, Linna and Xinan, 2018). It
is consist of physical environment, better working conditions, pollution free environment and job
security etc. This helps in maintaining good and positive working environment which leads to
better employee relations in a company. It is important for maintaining health and safety of
employees which helps in enhancing employee performance and productivity.
Attendance issues- In this employee faces a big challenge in maintaining work life
balance. It occurs with the presence of leave structure which leads to management of
responsibilities available in the life of an individual. It becomes hard to maintain that balance
between personal and professional life of an employee. Time keeping in a company involves the
amount of time required to perform job effectively. Attendance is one of the major problem
faced by company and employees for meting of responsibilities effectively. Approval and
maintenance of attendance is a major concern which has led to various issues faced by
employees in a company (Nicolae and Romulus, 2020). It is important to balance the needs and
interest of organisation and employees which would help in improving employee relations
B) Recommend set of employment relations issues
A common problem that is faced by most of the organization are annual leave disputes
and it is important to solve such disputes. Theses arguments can be minimized by offering
attractive holiday packages to the employees based on their performance. It results in more

motivated and productive work force. Also for solving such issues the company should have a
clear and accessible holiday policy (Shenoy, Sharma and Prasad, 2020). They should provide a
clear understanding of such policies to the employees and continuous amend them keeping in
mind the need of the employees.
Ensure Adequate safety to the employees as it the legal duty of the organization. The
employees should be ensured healthy and safe workplace environment. Proper and adequate
safety should be provided to the employees who are exposed to hazards that might cause injuries.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that employment relationship plays a crucial
role in the effective management of of the organization and enhancing the productivity level.
There should be a clear and direct link between the employer and employee. It results in
increasing the employee loyalty and commitment towards the organization and keeps them
motivated. Employment relationship thus defines the reciprocal rights and obligations that are
established among the employees and the employer. These relations are based on the contract
and amounts by the agreement between parties to the contract. It exists where a person performs
a task or service under certain terms and conditions.

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