BMP6005: Analysis of Work and Employment Relationship at H&M

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of work and employment relationships, concentrating on the practical and legal challenges businesses encounter. Using Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) as a case study, the report identifies key issues such as conflict management, wage and hour disputes, workplace safety, and employee indiscipline. It further explores the impact of these challenges on organizational goals and employee morale. The report provides actionable recommendations for addressing these issues, including implementing proper management practices, adopting democratic leadership styles, utilizing leave and attendance management software, and leveraging online communication tools. Emphasis is placed on building trust, fostering collaboration, and ensuring fair treatment through policies like the Equal Pay Act. The conclusion underscores the importance of strong employment relations in achieving organizational success and highlights the significance of continuous improvement in this area.

Work And The
Employment
Relationship

Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Practical and legal challenge that business experience in
employee relations
• Recommendations to set issues in employee relations
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
The employment relationship refers as to build employee engagement
and involvement with collaboration of managers, leaders and
employees. It is essential for business to focus on developing good
relations of workforce which results in achieving success efficiently
that leads to compete with rivalries. The organisation selected for this
project is Hennes and Mauritz (H&M) as being a Swedish
multinational clothing-retail company known for its fast-fashion
clothing for men, women and children (Bernhardt and Krause, 2014).

Hennes and Mauritz (H&M)
The Hennes and Mauritz Company is a
multinational clothing-retail company known for its
fast-fashion clothing for men, women and children.
It operates in 74 countries with over 5,000 stores
under various brands with it headquarters in
Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded by Erling
Persson on 4th October, 1947 at Vasteras, Sweden.
The Chief Executive Officer of organisation is
Karl-Johan Person on 1st July, 2009.

Employee Relations
This is defined as the process through which
company develops co-ordination among their
employers and employees for completing a
specific task within particular duration.
Managers of H&M Company build good
employment relations among their workers as
to encourage them to complete task
efficiently in order to achieve individual and
organisational goals (Carter, 2019).

Practical and Legal challenge that
business experience in employee relations
There are various types of practical and legal challenge in
employment relationships which are mostly experienced by
company. It further delay in goal accomplishment and lacks in
proper management of employee relations. The managers of
H&M Company analyse these challenge as to restrict the
possibility of instability in perfect competition market.

Practical and Legal challenge that
business experience in employee relations
• Conflict management:- The main challenge of
conflicts between various workers within the
whole workforce result in lack of discipline,
distrust and unfaith, disrespect, etc. It develops
an adverse environment within business which
lacks in accomplishment of target at particular
durations. The conflicts mostly rose in business
due to partiality, jealousy, etc., which lacks in
collaboration of workers. The managers of H&M
Company are unfavourably affected by this as
these conflicts result in delay of goal
accomplishment.

Practical and Legal challenge that
business experience in employee relations
• Hour and wage issue:- The main purpose of managers is to
provide wages to their workers by analysing their task done
within particular duration. It is most important for company
for giving minimum compensation to their workforce and
further provides monetary rewards such as bonus, incentives,
etc., to improve their motivation (Chandramohan, 2017).

Practical and Legal challenge that
business experience in employee
relations
• Adequate Safety in workplace:- It is the main duty and
responsibility of managers to focus on safety of their workers by
providing them safety gears such as helmets, gloves, boots, etc.
• It attracts workers to give their best efforts for business as they
provide certain safety measures to workforce.

Practical and Legal challenge that
business experience in employee relations
• Annual Leave dispute:- The most common issue faced by
managers of company is to deal with annual leave disputes of
labours.
• It is the reason for not maintaining the stable record of labour
that lacks in actual leave report of workers and is sometimes
create wages and salary for leave applicant.

Practical and Legal challenge that
business experience in employee
relations
• Time keeping and attendance issues:- The
managers of a company mainly face the
challenge of time keeping and attendance
issues. This is the problem faced by managers
as to analyse the timings and discipline manner
of employees within their contemporary
workplace in order to analyse punctuality of
workforce.

Practical and Legal challenge that
business experience in employee relations
• Lack in trust and faith:- The main consequences for improper
employment relations is workers lacks in building trust and faith among
each other. This result in unable to understand emotions and feelings of
workers within them as they does not respect value, beliefs, norms, ethos,
etc.
• Hennes and Mauritz (H&M) Company managers are adversely affected by
their workforce as they are not able to share their views, information,
knowledge, skills and emotions.