Analyzing Employee Relations: EU Influence and HRM Impact in the UK

This report examines the multifaceted aspects of employee relations, focusing on the influence of the European Union (EU) on industrial democracy within the United Kingdom and the impact of Human Resource Management (HRM) approaches on employee relations. It assesses how EU policies provide protection to vulnerable companies, manage worker freedoms, and maintain safe workplaces, thereby influencing the UK's industrial democratic system. The report also evaluates the impact of HRM activities such as recruitment, training, performance appraisal, and reward systems on employee relations, considering institutional, economic, technological, psychological, political, legal, and global factors. Furthermore, it compares methods used to gain employee participation and involvement in decision-making processes, highlighting the rise and decline of various techniques like board-level participation, collective bargaining, suggestion schemes, and safety committees. The analysis is supported by relevant academic references, providing a comprehensive overview of the dynamics shaping employee relations in the UK.

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Employee relations consist of all
those areas of human resource
management that involve relationships
with employees-directly or through
collective agreements where trade unions
are recognised. (Chuang, Church & Zikic, 2004)
Employee relations

Assess the influence of the EU on
industrial democracy in the UK.

Provide protection to vulnerable companies
Protects UK’s sunrise company
Manage freedom of the workers
Influence workers’ industrial democratic
system
Maintain safe and healthy workplace in the
UK
Impact of EU policies on UK’s
industrial democracy
(Choudrie , 2005)

Influence industrial democracy
Emerges trade policy
With trade policy organization involve in
international business
Influence employee freedom
Impact on industrial freedom of
employees

Make it helpful for general population of the
UK
Should ensure safety at workplace
It must be business oriented
Should generate agencies on different topics
to help employees
Recommendation

Assess the impact human resource
management approach has had on
employee relations.

Recruitment
Employee selection
Providing proper training
Measuring employee performance
Performance appraisal
Work planning
Ranking and rewarding
Salary and wages
HR Activities

• Institutional factor
• Economic factors
• Technological factors
• Psychological factors
• Political and legal
factors
• Global factors
Factors influecing employee
relations

HRM's Decisions and activities crate
influence on the employee relation
HRM activities always focuses on the
employee and organizational development.
Influence..

Compare methods used to gain
employee participation and
involvement in the decision
making process in organisations
considering methods that have
gained popularity in recent years
and which have declined.

Board level participation
Ownership
Participating in collective
bargaining
Participation in goals
setting
Methods used to encourage employee
participation in decision-making