Employee Relations: Analysis and Recommendations for Tesco Plc

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of employee relations at Tesco Plc, a major UK-based multinational grocery supermarket. The report begins with an introduction to employee relations and its importance, followed by an examination of employee relations at Tesco, including the value of employee relations, fundamental employment laws, and suggestions for improvement. The report then delves into the rights, duties, and obligations of both employers and employees, offering advice on managing employment relationships effectively. A significant portion of the report is dedicated to stakeholder analysis, examining both internal and external stakeholders and how their engagement supports positive employment relationships. The report concludes by evaluating the impact of positive and negative employee relationships on various stakeholders, including conflict avoidance and resolution, and provides recommendations for fostering a supportive and productive work environment. The report emphasizes the importance of effective communication, fair treatment, and adherence to employment laws to maintain positive employee relations and achieve organizational goals.

INDIVIDUAL REPORT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
PART 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
Value and importance of employee relation............................................................................................3
Fundamental of employment law............................................................................................................4
Valid suggestion to improve and respond effectively to employee relation.............................................4
PART 2.......................................................................................................................................................5
Different types of rights, duties, obligation an employer and employee within workplace......................5
Determine advice relating to rights, duties and obligation of employment relationship..........................6
Several mechanism for managing employment relationship along with justified suggestion..................7
PART 3.......................................................................................................................................................7
A stakeholder analysis for a given organisation and go on to analyse how stakeholder engagement and
contribution can support positive employment relationships within an organisation...............................7
PART 4.......................................................................................................................................................9
Impact of positive and negative employment relationship on different stakeholder................................9
Evaluate how positive and negative employee relationships can affect conflict avoidance and resolution
...............................................................................................................................................................10
Examination of different stakeholder perspectives and interests in the broader business environment to
support positive employment relationships............................................................................................10
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Employee relation refers to a legal link within employees and employers within
organisation. Employees represent an essential aspect for every company because they helps in
attaining success by performing in favor of business. Employee relation is concerned with
enhancing commitment in attaining overall organisation goal and objectives within number of
situation (De Stefano and et. al., 2021) . This report is based on Tesco Plc that is one of the
largest British multinational grocery supermarkets in UK. In this company there are around
423092 employees are working in all over the world and focus on maintaining better relation to
attain competitive advantage. This report involves value and importance of employee relation
along with several fundamental employment laws along with valid suggestion. Further it
involves rights, obligations and duties within employee and employer at workplace along with
stakeholder analysis that demonstrate positive relation with employee relationship. At last it
involves positive and negative employee relation on different stakeholder so that high profitable
results are attained on time.
MAIN BODY
PART 1
Value and importance of employee relation
Employee relation plays a crucial role within an organisation as it efforts to create and
maintain positive relation with employees (Aloisi and De Stefano, 2020). Therefore by
maintaining positive constructive employee relation company need to focus on keep the
employee loyal and engaged within working environment. In case of Tesco plc there are several
importance and value of employee relation are presented below:
 Reduction in turnover- Loosing experienced and skilled employee offer win-win
situation to competitors. In case of Tesco there is positive relation between employee and
employee that satisfy and encourage staff member to become loyal and retain with
organisation for longer time period. This offers a successful result to Tesco as they do not

spend cost on recruiting, hiring and training new candidates (Importance of Employee
Relations - Why Employee Relations at Workplace?, 2021).
 Increased productivity- It is another importance of employee relation. Having a positive
employee relation helps in reducing workplace conflicts due to which workers are
engaged within attaining target on time (Harsh and Prasad, 2021). This is beneficial for
Tesco to gain profitable result due to developing productivity of employees.
Fundamental of employment law
It is very crucial aspect at workplace to maintain the employee relation in effective
manner and in favor of profitability of business. This also helps in easily hire, manage and
evaluate employees so that sustainable results are attained by business. In case of Tesco there are
several fundamental of laws which are followed to gain employee satisfaction so that more
productive results are attained on time. Some employment law that Tesco adopts are presented
below:
 Bereavement Leave law- It is core fundamental of employment law that provide the
statutory minimum level of paid leaves to those employees who suffer the loss of child. It
is highly beneficial for maintaining employee relation so that they would sustain for a
longer time period at workplace (Piatak and et. al., 2020). For example- In Tesco Plc
human resource manager implement this law where they offer paid leaves to those
employees who lost their child when they continuously work for 26 weeks with a
minimum paid wage in the organisation.
 Equality act- This law is adopted by the Tesco at their workplace to attracts the attention
of employees so that they provide productive results to the business success and growth.
in this organisation there is no discrimination is to be done on the basis of caste, color,
religion of people as they appreciate every culture so that workers are satisfied with the
environment (Leighton and McKeown, 2020). For instance- As Tesco is working on
global level where diversified employees are working and to retain for longer time period
manager need to offer equal pay along with providing friendly environment to every
culture people so that productive results are enjoyed by them.
Valid suggestion to improve and respond effectively to employee relation

Employee relations are very essential aspect that highly impact on the culture of
workplace. There are several suggestions to improve and respond to effective employee relation
within Tesco that are discussed below:
 Take follow-ups of employee on regular basis- It is essential to improve the employee
engagement at Tesco so that difficult situation are to be handled effectively and also the
cost of the company in recruiting is to be saved. Taking continuous follow up of
employees helps in enhancing their skills so that they are engaged. This respond
positively to developing employee relation and gaining more profitable results.
 Encourage effective communication among team members- to maintain effectiveness
within Tesco in relation to employee relation communication play a vital role because it
reduces conflicts and misunderstanding (Brandl, 2021). In case of Tesco it is to be
suggested that manager offer right to subordinates so that they share their views that
enhance employee relation at workplace.
PART 2
Different types of rights, duties, obligation an employer and employee within workplace
It is very essential to understand the workplace rights and responsibility to sustain in
competitive market by gaining competitive advantage within marketplace. In context of Tesco
several factors are to be presented below:
Rights of employee and employer
Employees
 It is a right of employee to work in a safe environment where they carry out work in that
manner that is also safe for other too i.e. for consumers.
 Employee has a right to report any hazards, injuries to the manager or employer of Tesco
so that relation of employees is maintained effectively that generate profitable results in
marketplace (Fisher and Junor, 2020).
 Employees have the right to get fair pay so that they are satisfied with the working
criteria of Tesco and enjoy long term survival.

Employers
 The employer has the right to hire or fire the employees. For instance- In Tesco if worker
do misbehave and create conflict environment than employer have the right to fire that
employees and save workplace prominently.
 It is right of employer at workplace that they focus on resolving complaints so that
environment at workplace is to be maintained properly. For instance- In Tesco,
employee sometime face issue related to behavior of other employee and it is a right of
employer to focus on these issues so that atmosphere at workplace is to be maintained
properly.
Duties, obligations of employee and employer
Employees
 The main duty of employee at workplace is to take a reasonable care for health and safety
of ourselves that may be affected by his acts and errors at Tesco. In case of Tesco, it is
very crucial duty of employee to care ourselves so that mistakes are to be removed and
proficiency is to be maintained.
Employers
 At workplace, employee have a duty to offer safe and secure workplace to their
employees along with offering preventions of risk to health by providing insurance
facilities to staff member so that they work effectively and efficiently (Ensuring health
and safety in the workplace, 2021).
 The duty of employer is that they need to focus on developing workplace culture
positively where employees’ conflicts are eliminated so that task is completed on
specified period of time.
Determine advice relating to rights, duties and obligation of employment relationship
From above information based on rights and duties of employment relationship it is to be
determined that all these are useful to maintain employment relationship at work. Hence,
offering proper work safety, pay, training sessions help in maintaining good and positive
employment relationship due to which conflicts are to be removed along with fulfilling basic

necessities of employee and employer (Tesco Employees Reveal What It’s Really Like To Work
Here, 2021). This develops relation at workplace which is crucial to gain profitable results. As in
Tesco employees have the right to enjoy paid leaves to maintain the work life balance. Hence,
having proper and valid rights, duties, responsibilities of employees and employer helps manager
to appropriately manage employment relation at working environment.
Several mechanism for managing employment relationship along with justified
suggestion
There are several mechanisms that are adopted by Tesco to manage employment
relationship so that more revenues and sustainable results are enjoyed by company. Some of the
suggestions for Tesco to management employment relation are presented below:
 Employee survey opinion- It is a core mechanism that is suggested for Tesco to manage
employment relationship. It is essential for Tesco manager to survey employee opinions
so that their issues and needs are easily identified and helps employer to focus on
fulfilling it so that workers are satisfied within working it also develop positive employee
relation.
 Training aids- It is another suggestion that is given to Tesco manager in the concern of
employee relationship. In this manager need to hire employee relation specialist that
helps manager in what circumstance they punish employee or appreciates them (Jinyun
and et. al., 2021). For this Tesco provide training session so that employees skills are
developed and after it they cannot work effectively than they punish employees of
misbehaving and also appreciating for excellent work. This maintains employment
relationship at workplace and firm will attain more profitable results.
PART 3
A stakeholder analysis for a given organisation and go on to analyse how stakeholder
engagement and contribution can support positive employment relationships within an
organisation.
The stakeholder analysis is used to attain and examine the impact of both internal and
external aspect that has direct and indirect influence over the business working standards
(Stakeholders of Tesco (An analysis of Tesco’s stakeholders). 2021). It is an essential aspect as

with this working standards and capability to manage and control expectations of stakeholders.
Tesco is the largest retailing sector and having different stakeholder that is as explained below
as:
Internal stakeholder of Tesco: These are those stakeholders that have direct impact over
the working standards and possibility to attain standardised outcome within stipulated period of
instance. As it includes the stakeholder those are presented inside the business such as employee,
manager, board, executive and committee (Papagiannakis and et. al., 2019). It is resulted of
human effort through which possibility to perceive better understanding with attentiveness is
resulted in progressive manner. It has powerful impact over working standards as with their
efforts only ability of company to achieve its targeted objective is processed with perfection.
External stakeholder of Tesco: It comprise of different stakeholder those are outside
from the business such as suppliers, customers, competitors, government, local communities,
pressure group and creditors. It is required that company must get provide better and qualitative
service to its customers as with this profit credibility and revenue generation both get surpassed
with attentiveness. In addition, Tesco is having a largest competitive background and with this
ASDA, Morrison, Sainsbury, Waitrose and many others in this Tesco and its management assure
to make adequate advancement that assist to maintain sustained influence over competitive
marketplace.
The stakeholder prospect is always being essential for Tesco as with this powerful
advancement is induce to make better decision making that induce significant impact in terms of
designing and implementation of pricing policy (Alexander and Hjortsø, 2019). It is also be
resulted to achieve adequate worth from the marketplace and it is in terms of higher customer
base and for this effectual supply is provided by the business so that business attentiveness is
resulted in favored mode.
The effective engagement with the stakeholder is having direct impact over the business
as its ability to covey clear goals and objective is processed in favorable manner. It assist the
group of stakeholders to arrive with effectual decision making that assure to make meaningful
investment so that favored outcome is developed in progressive manner. Furthermore, it helps
the management and Tesco to recognize fundamental accountability that is obliged with the

suitable respond so that sustainable outcome is achieved in timely mode. Thus the engagement of
stakeholder is crucial prospect for the success of Tesco that also drive and robust development of
strategic planning under which favored marketing plan is designed which offered incredible
values towards progress and long term sustainability (Shams and et. al., 2019). The balance
relation in between stakeholder make clarity about the certain objective and target that shared
equal and balanced share of meaningful process so that strategic planning is developed in
prospect of sustained success. For this clear and consistent communication is developed as by
outlining valuable interaction through which consistent range of benefit is attained that also
resulted towards perfect relationship that furthermore bring collaborative partnership.
PART 4
Impact of positive and negative employment relationship on different stakeholder
Employee are primarily affected due to the stakeholders as in concern of economic
wellbeing as the employee have shared suitable concern as in regard to accomplish better
working standards in beneficial manner (Wratny and Ludera-Ruszel, 2020). The strong
employee relation is induced with long term success as work gets processed with mutual
understanding and attentive sharing so that responsive outcome is achieved in beneficial manner.
It heightened the loyalty and trust among employee that leverage to make sustained
improvisation, employee also get motivated with this good relations are maintain in which effort
of all get recognized through which ability of conflicts also get reduced. In addition it has some
negative impact as well such as stronger employment relationship that affects subordinate
psychology and their performance as they act more free through which ability to maintain focus
towards target and goal it harder to accomplish. It thrive to imbalanced working surround in
which it is not relative for business to maintain higher heights as by achieving better market
position and share. Moreover, it is harder for management to satisfy the employee who tends to
job fluctuation more frequently and with these disciplinary problems also get raised that leads
towards inappropriate working prospects.

Evaluate how positive and negative employee relationships can affect conflict avoidance
and resolution
From the above information it is to be evaluated that positive employee relation helps in
avoiding conflicts at workplace because due to positive relation between employees trust and
loyalty is to be developed that helps in completing the activities properly by proper
communication and understanding. In terms of negative employee relations they affect the
conflict avoidance in negative manner because it does not resolve conflicts within Tesco working
culture but developed it more due to this high loss is faced by company in this long term
survival. Positive relation also resolves conflicts properly so that chances of repeat conflicts is
eliminated and it develops firm success and growth in competitive market environment.
Examination of different stakeholder perspectives and interests in the broader business
environment to support positive employment relationships
In terms of Tesco there are various types of stakeholders such as internal and external
stakeholders that have different perspective and interest within current business environment.
Internal stakeholder mainly are employers and manager who need to follow proper working
standards as they think that offering positive working culture to workers attain productive results
within current business environment that indirectly support positive employee relationship within
an organisation (Carabetta, 2020). In terms of external stakeholders government play a major
role as they regulate some rules and regulation for employee welfare because as their interest in
company is low but for community people is high and employees are belong as a people of
community so that their safety is a major activity of government due to this it highly support
positive employee relationship within an organisation so that they enjoy high growth and
sustainability within marketplace.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is to be concluded that employee relation is significant concept
for organisation to gain profitable results within marketplace. This report involves various terms
such as value and importance of employee relation, employment law that are useful to maintain
productive and proficient results for long term survival. This project also demonstrates the
duties, rights and obligations of employee and employer at workplace so that more profitable

results are attained by firm. In this stakeholder analysis is to be done that helps in developing
employment relation in positive and negative manner.

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