Employee Relations Report: EU Influence and HRM at Tesco PLC

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of employee relations, focusing on the case of Tesco PLC. It begins by examining the unitary and pluralistic frames of reference, highlighting their impact on employee relations. The report then delves into how changes in trade unionism affect employee relations and the roles of key players such as employees, employers, trade unions, employer associations, and the government. Task 2 focuses on conflict resolution, outlining procedures organizations should follow and analyzing specific conflict situations within Tesco PLC. The report also explores negotiation in collective bargaining, evaluating its impact on various situations. Finally, it discusses the influence of the EU on industrial democracy, methods for employee participation, and the impact of human resource management on employee relations, providing a holistic view of the subject.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Unitary and pluralistic frames of reference...........................................................................1
1.2 Way in which changes in trade unionism affect employee relations....................................2
1.3 Role of the main players in employee relations....................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
2.1 The procedures an organization should follow when dealing with different conflicts
situations.....................................................................................................................................4
2.2 Key features of employee relations in a selected conflict situation......................................5
2.3 Effectiveness of procedures use in a selected conflict situation...........................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Role of negotiation in collective bargaining.........................................................................7
3.2 Impact of negotiation strategy for a given situation.............................................................8
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
4.1 Influence of EU on industrial democracy in UK..................................................................9
4.2 Methods to gain employee participation and involvement in the decision making process
in organization...........................................................................................................................10
4.3 Impact of human resource management on employee relations.........................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Employee relation is more important for a organization to attain higher success. It is
important duty as well as responsibility of a manager to maintain healthy relationship among all
the staff members. Good and strong employee relation helps in increasing the overall
productivity of employee and its company which contribute in success of the firm. It is an
effective process to encourage the employee to perform their best in every task and get positive
results in appropriate manner. Basically healthy relation among employer and employees is
effective tool to motivate the workers to perform their task in effective manner. In today's
business environment maintain better relation between employee and employer which aid in
improving performance of the company (Negotiation Strategy, 2017). It is not only increase the
productivity but also eliminate all the reasons which create conflicts in the company. Positive
environment is also define healthy relation which aid in achieving its targets. Present report is
based on Tesco PLC, it is a multinational outlet that operate their process in various countries.
This assignment include various approaches for maintaining employee relation. It also include
effective process to resolve all the conflicts which arise in organizational process. Along with
this it also discussed the impact of human resource manager on employee relations. It also define
various task which include unitary and pluralistic on the basis of employee relation.
TASK 1
1.1 Unitary and pluralistic frames of reference
In every organization various changes take place which affect the overall performance of
the company. All employee are the important assets of the company which contribute on its
success at marketplace. In recent time every employees wants to increase employee productivity
by motivating them and get best outcome in effective manner. For this there are two approaches
such as Unitary and pluralistic frames both are affect the employee relation in different ways.
Unitary frame: In this process of employee relation, there are one top authority who
manage all the process as well as operation that related to the employee relation and they take all
the important decision in appropriate manner (What is Employee Relations ?, 2017). It is main
and important duty of manager as well as top level management to define ethical work and
loyalty between all the employees so that they easily perform their work and get all the common
goals. Leadership should be encourage in an enterprise for increase performance and
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productivity of employees. Further focus should be done on process of setting mutual goals as
this will ensure growth of both employers and employees (Bach and Kessler, 2011). This frame
define that union trade is more important in resolving all the conflicts which create in employees
mind which affect negatively on the business performance. So that it is more important resole all
the obstacles as possible in order to achieve its targets in appropriate manner.
Pluralistic frame: Under this approach, it define that organization include various type of
workers at working place. So that the working environment is a combination of various attitude,
behaviours, beliefs and different culture of the employees. In this management of the company is
more important to define effective process because at working place various people
communicate with each other so that it create more conflicts which is unavoidable but some time
it is not impact on the organization negatively (Bamber, 2013). Tesco include various employees
so that they work together and all are having different interest as well as opinion so that it is
important duty of company manager to maintain effective coordination among them and get
positive end results in appropriate manner. According to this approach trade union is also
important and positively affect the business performance by encouraging and motivating workers
and also give some authorities to take better decision. In this with the help of bargaining process
company achieve stability in employee relation.
1.2 Way in which changes in trade unionism affect employee relations
In business process changes take place in trade unionism and which affect the employee
relation directly. It is an effective process as well as group or people that focus on resolving all
the problems and also save the interest of employees and employer in business so that they
perform their task effectively and get best results in appropriate manner (Choi, 2011). As per
court order in 1901, trade union strictly take best action on those firm which does not provide
basic rights and facilities to its employees so that they faced many problems at their workplace.
The main and important purpose of trade union is to protect workers interest. They define their
rules and regulations for the workers and it is essential for the company to follow it effectively.
In 1921, at the time of declining of the business employer cut the wages of its workers and after
few time period they again cut the wages and also increase the working hour of the employees.
For this trade union is more important for safeguard the interest of the workers and employer to
achieve effective and positive results. It also protect the employees rights in order to maintain
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their safety and also motivate them towards its work at the workplace (Davidson, Timo and
Wang, 2010).
As per this union trade is more crucial for the enterprise because it play important role at
the time of negotiation process because the main purpose of this is to protect and maintain
interest of both. This action and activity affect the employee relation is positive manner which
assist in encourage the morale of the workers. In this Tesco provide better circumstance to all
workers to maintain positive and healthy relation among them. Every changes in business
environment affect the overall employee relation. Business organization use trade union to
develop as well as build positive relation with all the workers and also define the best
commitment to provide better support (Gupta and Kumar, 2012). All these activities of trade
union helps in setting goals and objectives and also defining effective utilization of available
resources in appropriate manner.
1.3 Role of the main players in employee relations
Maintain healthy relationship between employees and employer is not a simple task so
that it is more important for the organization to maintain better relation among them. By defining
main player of the firm which directly affect the organization performance in effective manner
and helps in achieving appropriate success. So that all the player define their roles and
responsibilities which is different form other members. These main player are as follows:
Employees: These are important assets of the organization who contribute in overall
success of the company. Employees perform all the activities to make final products for its
customers in order to attract more people (Heilman and Wallen, 2010). So that it is more
important for employee to perform their duties in appropriate manner which aid in achieving
higher success at marketplace. They all are work with minimum wastage of resources because it
aid in increasing the profitability of the products and services.
Employer: They are one who select and recruit experienced and skills employees in their
organization in order to filling all the job position. So that it is important responsibility to
maintain standard of all the activities which perform in the firm in order to achieve positive
results. This aid in improving the quality products which were offering by the company to its end
users so that skilled and experiences workers are hired by the employer to met all the process of
the firm. Manager of the Tesco PLC increase their productivity by defining effective policies
which is related to the human resource management (Hou and Reber, 2011). Manager of perform
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payroll system to achieve effective results. The important and essential role of employer to
maintain proper coordination in business activities to get positive and ethical results in
appropriate way.
Trade unions: It is very important and special player of the business which execute by
various firm to protect employees rights and maintain their interest in effective way (Martin and
Burke, 2012). The main aim of this frame is to define effective coordination among all the
business activities to achieve positive end results and also focus of adverting activities to
promote its products and service at market place as well as customers mind.
Employer associations: This player is more important in employee relation because it aid
in maintaining healthy and positive relation between employer and employees. The main purpose
of this process manage all the available resources and also provide better guidance to use it
effectively. This association focus on increasing all the legislation to protect all the rights of
employees in appropriate manner.
Government: It play an important role every country because it define rules and
regulations which is related to the employees that affect overall performance of the company.
The main and important aim of this player to increase as well as promote public welfare in the
country. They develop various legislation and laws like minimum wages, child labour laws and
many more acts which is more important to follow by the company to maintain positive
environment in their business environment (Meyer and Maltin, 2010). All these laws aid in
protecting the employee rights in effective way that impact positively.
All these player are more important because it contribute in overall success of the
company and also maintain the healthy relationship between employer and employees.
TASK 2
2.1 The procedures an organization should follow when dealing with different conflicts
situations
Conflicts arise in every organisation so it is very important to resolve it effectively.
There are some points which focus by the Tesco PLC in order to resole ll the conflicts in
appropriate manner: Identify the reason of problem: It is the first step when conflicts take place in business
environment so that in this step it is more important to the fine effective reason of the
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problems so that manager of the company easily resolve it (Morris, 2012). Lack of
training, inappropriate communication system, leadership problems all the common
reason of creating the problems in the business. It is main and important duty of company
manager to find better solution to make positive environment which assist in motivating
its workers to get positive results. Identify the way for solving conflicts: In this step it start after the identify the conflicts
which is based on solving the problem by using effective process. For this manager can
motivate their workers as well as employee by providing incentives which assist in
maintain the positive environment in the business. Effective communication system also
remove all the conflicts because it cut-down all the confusions at workplace and
employees mind (Ng and Feldman, 2012). Manager can adopt effective policy of no
harassment on various level of management. It is also an effective process to give
empower to its employees so that they take better decision of solution to resolve all the
conflicts at the workplace. Identification of ways to implement the process: After defining the better solution the
next step which create in management mind that how to implement it in the business
process. It is possible by the collecting form employee to all the new and innovative
ideas. For this meeting is one of the best process which is held by the human resource
management manager so that they define all the appropriate rights and duties of workers
which also assist for this process.
 Feedback: it is the last and final step of resolving al the conflicts which is done after the
implementation process in the business process. It is very important process that define
problem solve or not. When it is not solved so that it is manager duty to find effective
solution to resolve all the conflicts in the working place.
All these steps are very effective which is used by the Tesco manager to eliminations all
the problems in order to increase the overall productivity of the company and its employees in
appropriate manner (Pelit, Öztürk and Arslantürk, 2011).
2.2 Key features of employee relations in a selected conflict situation
Business success is highly based on its employee and their quality relation among them.
For example, it is manager responsibility to performing as well as fulfilling all the job place to
maintain positive relation with al the employee which aid in increasing the overall productivity
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of the company. This process is done by the Tesco manager to treat all the employees in ethically
so that they perform their work effectively and provide better results. For motivating its workers
morale it is more important for the manager to give est opportunities to increase their growth in
appropriate manner (Peloza and Shang, 2011). The main conflicts which arise between male and
female which is create by ineffective work allocation in the business process. It directly affect
the business performance as well as its productivity. There are some key process to resolve
selected conflicts in appropriate manner and maintain positive relation among all the employees: Preventive Better relationship among female and male staff members: This key factors
is related to the male and female staff member relationship at workplace. In this the male
members are always arise their voice against the female staff members so that it is
negatively impact on the whole business. These type of negative activities affect the
development of the business and also create negative relationship among them. This
conflicts become a big problems for the company because it impact on customers because
company can not provide effective services to them.
 Dissatisfy with the business: It is also a effective key process to resolve conflicts and
maintain the positive employee relations (Pot, 2011). The all the staff member will
define their dissatisfaction which is related to the business. So that it is important for the
management to taking best and appropriate step to analysis all the prospective to resolve
their problems and allocate fare work. This conflicts arise negative relation with all the
workers. Tesco take suitable action regarding this problems which will helps in
improving the relationship. In this process the mediator is more important because they
find right and appropriate solution to keeping positive environment by giving effective
facilities.
2.3 Effectiveness of procedures use in a selected conflict situation
Effectiveness is more important in the process that is used by the company to resolve all
the conflicts in appropriate manner. For this company take better step and tale helps from the
handling procedures. In this decision are take by the manager to define positive relation among
all the employees. In this the male staff define their opinion and thoughts which are related to the
allocation of the work that are define tin the workplace. In the discussion time the staff members
ask for the manager of the company about the all the reasons which create problems (Saridakis,
Muñoz Torres and Johnstone, 2013). If all the workers satisfy with the reason that define by the
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manager of the company so that all the condition effective resolved in appropriate manner. On
the other hand if the staff members are not satisfy with the reason so that they have to show their
issue in front of manager so that they find better solution to resolve effectively.
This process is effective which assist in resolving al the conflicts which take place ion
business and it put their positive impact on employee relations. In another term lack of
coordination is also impact negatively of company performance (Singh, 2011). So that manager
use effective strategy to maintain healthy retranslation by solving al the problems which arise
with in staff members. In this the last step, manager collect all the dispute which rise in the
organization and which is presented by the staff members. The whole committee set and
comprised skilled and effective people to reach at appropriate solution. All these process adopted
by the Tesco PLC to fine better solution of the conflicts in effective manner.
TASK 3
3.1 Role of negotiation in collective bargaining
Collective bargaining is a effective process which is related to the workers who define the
activity of negotiation in the business process. Bargain between employees and employer is one
of the big reason of arising the conflicts. Collective bargaining is an effective strategy which is
used by the company to resolve all the issues of employee and employer. In this negotiation in
collective bargaining play an important role which aid in solving critical obstacles and also
increase the satisfaction level of the employee in appropriate manner (Syed and Ali, 2010).
Because the negotiation increase the positive work environment and also maintain the god
relation among all the employees and also fulfil all the needs and wants of the workers. It is the
best and effective approach for employee and employer to evaluate the best solution of the
creating problems. There are some various roles of negotiation which are define in collective
bargaining process which are as follows in below mentioned: Negotiation aid in reaching an effective conclusion: In this the main and important role
of negotiation is to find best and effective solutions of the problems which arise in the
working place and faced by the employees. With the help of this process the staff
members are formal discussed with the top level management about all the issue that
arise at the workplace (Van Buren, Greenwood and Sheehan, 2011). So that negotiation
is effective process to settled all the dispute by evaluating better solution of the problems.
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 Increasing the effectiveness of the collective bargaining process: The main purpose of
collective bargaining process is to eliminate all the dispute which arise the conflicts
between employees and employer. The employer of the company easily communicate
with their staff members about the conflicts and also define the main reason behind it.
They also adopt effective steps to evaluating employment practice in appropriate manner.
For the the manager of the company also conduct meeting with male staff about the
ineffective allocation of the work at workplace (Van De Voorde, Paauwe and Van
Veldhoven, 2012). So that this type of negotiation ;process define the specific solution
and also measure the best solution to define the positive process and improve the overall
performance of the company. It lead to maintain the services of the market place and its
targets. For all the issue negotiation play an important role in resolving all the conflicts
and also improve the effectiveness of the collective bargaining in appropriate way.
3.2 Impact of negotiation strategy for a given situation
In negotiation strategies it include two parties who communicate with each other to resole
all the obstacles that arise in the business workplace. It can be in the process of yielding,
compromising, and other process that aid in resolve the problems In appropriate manner. In this
various approaches and policies affect the solution as well as conflicts in different ways. These
strategies can be used by the Tesco according to the conflicts and its solutions which are as
follows: Yielding: It is not a part of negotiation process. In this one party think that other party is
more powerful by them and accept their decision and thinking. Compromising: This strategy is one of the best and effective in negotiation process
because in this both parties compromise to achieve fair and ethical results. In this both
parties think that nobody achieve what he actually wants. All the members play ethically
because they don't want to getting harm to other and they esteem from others. It is one of
the best approaches in the negotiation process (Saridakis, Muñoz Torres and Johnstone,
2013). With the help of this manager of the company easily fulfil employee needs and
wants and get their commitment in appropriate manner. Competing: According to this strategies in is negative strategy of negotiation process. In
this the one party put their best efforts to get maximum benefits so that this approach is
just opposite from the compromising. In this the one party think that their esteem is
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higher from other and also tries to achieve best and effective position. It impact
negatively on other party which create negative environment that reduce the productivity
and increase conflicts over there. So that its is not tries to the company because it totally
negative approach.
 Problem solving: This is an effective strategy which is related to the compromise, in this
both parties find the effective and best solution of the problems and implement in the
business process to resolve it effectively (Hou and Reber, 2011). It is used by the
manager of the company to support to their employee and also getting their commitment.
In this the problem solver play a vital role because they fine effective conclusion to
overcome from the conflicts.
All these strategies are essential for the company to solve all the conflicts at workplace
and also improve the organization productivity in appropriate manner.
TASK 4
4.1 Influence of EU on industrial democracy in UK
Organization democracy influence by the EU policies. For example if they set act as well
as legislations like anti harassment which increase the women at workplace in the business. This
positively affect working environment. So that trade policies is more important because it
influence the firms activities which is define in national and international level. In this EU
policies focus on workers safety and also increase the satisfaction which aid in improving the
productivity of the company as well as its employee. There are some points which define the
impact of EU policies on UK:
 It assist in protecting employees rights
 Affect the company democracy.
 Maintain the interest of the employer and employees.
Along with this, EU policies positively affect the activities of employees that define their rights
and making healthy working environment. All these assist in increasing the overall productivity
of the company as well as its employees (Meyer and Maltin, 2010). It provide safe working
environment to all the employees which work on the business so that EU policies highly
contribute in the increasing the performance and productivity of UK business in appropriate
manner.
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4.2 Methods to gain employee participation and involvement in the decision making process in
organization
Every organization depend on its employer and employees so that it is more important to
include in decision making process in order to achieve its goals and objectives in appropriate
manner. Better employee relation aid in achieving competitive advantage form its rival. It is
more important for the employer to adopt effective method of decision making process so that
they easily attract its targets (Morris, 2012). There are some methods as well as techniques which
is used by the Tesco to improve employee involvement in the decision making process:
 In the first step organization should conduct servery so that they effectively measure the
actual performance as well as involvement of the employee. As per this employer set
their workers salary according to their quality.
 In the next step organization should define various problems which is resolved by the
high authority in effective manner.
On the other hand there are some another techniques used by the Tesco for achieving
involvement of the employee in decision making process: Information method: In this, the manager of the company provide all the relevant
information to every employees which is related to the organization activities. It aid to
define the actual perform of the company and its various level and also provide relevant
guidance to take better relations.
 Delegation: In this the manager of the company provide better opportunities to its
employees in order to perform their work in effective manner which aid in increasing the
knowledge of the employees in effective way.
4.3 Impact of human resource management on employee relations
Human resource management is more important for all the organization because it helps
in controlling every employee who work in the company. So that it is more important to manage
them which aid in achieving success at competitive marketplace. Human resource management
provide proper training to employees which aid for the Tesco to improve overall performance of
the workers. They also conduct training and development program to enhance the quality as well
as productivity of the workers in order to get positive end results by them effectively. This
process aid in increasing the knowledge toward its works of employee that contribute in
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