BSC (Hons) Business Management BMP6005: Employment Presentation

This presentation, created for a Business Management course, analyzes the employment relationship, defining it as the connection between employers and employees. It explores practical and legal challenges organizations face, using TJ Maxx as a case study. The presentation identifies issues such as time and attendance, leave disputes, conflict management, salary issues, communication problems, long working hours, and unclear policies. It then provides detailed recommendations for addressing these challenges, including implementing technology for attendance and leave management, promoting effective communication, setting clear policies, and observing market trends for salaries. The presentation emphasizes the importance of strong employment relations for a healthy work environment, enhanced productivity, and employee loyalty. References are also included in the presentation.

BSC (Hons) Business
Management (Top-up)
BMP6005 Work and the Employment
Relationship

Assessment 2: Individual Presentation
Practical and legal challenges that organisations experience in
managing the employment relationship
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Contents
 Introduction
 Practical and Legal challenges in employment relationship
 Recommendations to a set of employment relations issues
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Employment relationship can be defined as a link between employers and employees and
exist when a person performs work in return for a salary under certain conditions. Both
employer as well as employee agree to perform work wherein the employer supervises
the performance of an employee. If employees will share a healthy and strong relationship
with their employer, it is not only beneficial for them but the whole company (Audenaert,
George and Decramer, 2019). This is because there will be a reduction in work-related
conflicts, increase in overall morale of the staff which and an enhanced productivity.

Cont…
TJ Maxx is a department store chain based in America, which was founded in the year
1976. The company sells products at cheaper prices as compared to other stores that sell
similar products. The company not only has nearly 1,000 stores across the nation but it also
sells products online. The founder of TJ Maxx is Bernard Cammarata and a wide range of
fashionable apparel products for men women and children. Some of the products of TJ
Maxx are apparel, shoes, bath and beauty, accessories etc.

Practical And Legal Challenges In
Employment Relationship
There are various practical as well as legal challenges in employment relationship, that
can affect the overall productivity as well as performance of the company. Some of the
challenges that TJ Maxx might face are explained below -
• Time and Attendance – There should be simple and understandable attendance
policies within the company in order to improve the overall productivity. If the employees
are regularly late to work, take leaves without approval, leave early without completing
working hours etc., the company will lose out on profits and the business functions of
the company will also not be able to operate effectively (Audenaert, Vanderstraeten and
Buyens, 2017).

Cont…
• Leave Disputes – This is another challenge that the company can face because if the
employees of the company are not aware of the leave policy, there can be leave disputes.
Therefore, it is important for TJ Maxx to install the right technology by using appropriate
tools. This will prove to be highly beneficial because it will allow the management of the
company to develop a clear policy without any kind of chances of misinterpretation. Also,
the policy should be communicated clearly to the employees so that they become aware
of the same (Are You Tracking These Common Employee Relations Issues?, 2020).

Cont…
• Managing Conflicts– Conflicts within the company should be managed effectively
because this is one of the most crucial things to do while dealing with challenges relating
to employee issues. It is known that disagreements or conflicts cannot be avoided, so the
company should have procedures or plans to deal with the same in an effective manner.
The management of respective company, TJ Maxx should clearly communicate its
expectations to the employees (Behling, 2018).

Cont…
• Salary Issues – This is one of the most common employee relations challenge that a
company can come across. Employees can complain about the rate of their salary,
specially when one of their co-workers receive a raise in their pay (Cruz, Hardy and
Sanders, 2017). TJ Maxx should have set procedures and policies for giving raises to the
employees based on their performance. This will help the employees in knowing how can
they qualify for a pay raise. This challenge can also come up if two employees, doing the
same job receive different wages.

Cont…
• Lack of effective communication – This is one of the biggest challenges that the
company can face because sometimes, employees might face difficulty in communicating
with each other. This can either happen through a lack of efficient communication sources
or even through misinterpretation of the message across departments (Dieuaide and
Azaïs, 2020). Therefore, it is important for the company to provide effective
communication channels so that there is no problem.

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• Long working hours – If the employees of TJ Maxx will not have scheduled working
hours on a regular basis, they will get exhausted and tired. Due to his, their overall
performance and productivity levels will get affected and they will not feel like coming to
work every day (Dieuaide, 2018). This can also happen if the same employees are asked
to worked on night shifts regularly. The reason behind this is that long working hours can
be tough on the employees, affect their overall performance as well as lead to various
other employee relations issues. . This can not only affect their overall performance but
individual health as well. This will further lead to an increase in the levels of absenteeism
and error rates among the employees which is not beneficial for the company.

Cont…
• Unclear and ambiguous policies – If the company will not have policies that clearly
explain the rules and regulations and are ambiguous, the employees will feel lost. They
will have no idea as to what is expected of them or about the goals towards which they
are working (Dumas and Houdré, 2016). This can affect their overall performance and
can lead to confusion among employees of different departments within the company.
The different policies within the company can include leave policies, code of conduct,
increase in wages, harassment, privacy and email policies etc.