Analyzing Employment Relationships: Challenges at Marks & Spencer

This presentation defines employee relationships as company efforts to maintain positive interactions, crucial for achieving organizational goals. It delves into Marks and Spencer, a UK-based retail organization, to examine the legal challenges such as wage laws, healthcare laws, discrimination laws, and paid leave policies, alongside practical issues like conflict management, attendance problems, and long working hours. Recommendations for Marks and Spencer include effective communication, employee valuation, training and development, and promoting work-life balance. The presentation concludes that maintaining a healthy work environment is essential for fostering positive employment relationships and building a positive brand image, suggesting measures to overcome challenges and gain a competitive advantage.

Work and the Employment
Relationship

Table of contents
 Introduction
 Legal challenges in employment relationship
 Practical challenges in employment relationship
 Recommendations
 CONCLUSION
 References

INTRODUCTION
 Employee relationships defined as efforts that companies put in the working environment in order to
maintain positive relationship among employees. Through maintaining positive employee relationship
organizations could be able to achieve their organizational objectives effectively and smoothly. It is very
essential for companies to promote healthy working environment for employees so that they could perform
with maximum efficiency. The selected company for the purpose of this presentation is Marks and Spencer
which is a UK based retail organization that deals in apparel and clothing industrial sector. The following
presentation covers practical and legal challenges that the chosen company might face an employment
relationship. Furthermore, some recommendations are being provided to the respective company in order
to overcome challenges related to employment relationship.

Legal
challenges in employment relationship
 There are some legal challenges which the company
could face in employment relationship that are
provided below:
 Wage and hour law
 Health care law
 Discrimination law
 Paid leave and parental leave law

Practical challenges in employment
relationship
 The practical challenges the respective company
could experience are mentioned below:
 Conflict management
 Attendance issues
 Longer working hours

Recommendations
 There are some recommendations which Marks and Spencer could
implement in order to enhance employment relationship and
provide healthy working environment to its employees
 Effective communication
 Make employees feel valued
 Training and development
 Promote health and work life balance

CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it has been concluded that for companies it is very essential to
maintain a good working environment so that employees could feel safe and secure that
could result in positive employment relationship. It has been observed from the above
presentation that there are some challenges which the companies face while promoting
employment relationship. From the above evaluation it could be said that companies
could take some measures to avoid these challenges and promote employment
relationship in order to gain competitive advantage in the market as well as making
positive brand image among people.

References
 Wan, D.T.W. and Phee, P.S., 2018. Top Executives’ Attitude and Preferences Toward
Employee Voice and Participation in Singapore. In Models of Employee Participation in a
Changing Global Environment (pp. 306-321). Routledge.
 Belsito, C.A. and Reutzel, C.R., 2020. Employee Performance Appraisal Formalization and
Change in SME Employee Intentions to Quit. Small Business Institute Journal, 16(1), pp.1-23.
 Lewin, D., 2018. Employee voice and mutual gains. Members-only Library.

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