Report on Work and Employment Relationship for International Expansion

This report delves into the intricacies of work and employment relationships, using Marks & Spencer as a case study. It explores the fundamental aspects of employee-employer dynamics, highlighting the significance of a positive work environment for fostering creativity and innovation. The report identifies practical and legal challenges faced by M&S, particularly concerning its international expansion, including conflict management, employee expectations, safety, and wage disputes. It provides recommendations for addressing these issues, such as promoting open communication, focusing on company mission, and offering career development opportunities to enhance employee satisfaction and productivity. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of considering these challenges during international expansion, given the diverse cultural and environmental factors, and reiterates the recommendations for fostering a strong employment relationship within the organization. The report references several academic sources to support its analysis and recommendations.

Work and employment
relationship

Table of content
 Introduction
 Practical and legal challenges
 Recommendation
 Conclusion
 Reference

Introduction
 Work and employment relationship is a relation between employees and
employer. It occurs when a individual in an organization performs any work or
task in return of some rewards or remuneration. Positive work environment is
when employers provide appreciation to the employees for their better
performance otherwise it is considered as a negative employee relation. For this,
employees should work together to become a single unit then only they can
become more creative and innovative (Astakhova and Porter, 2015).

Practical and legal challenges
 Marks and Spencer is the British multinational retailing company of clothing,
home products, food products etc. company was established in 1884, about 136
years ago in London UK. It is expanding in worldwide but right now it has to
expand in more countries. For this its employees relationship are to be strong to
set up its branch in different countries. Company sells food products like food and
beverages, in clothing it includes men, women and kids wear, then in home
appliances, it includes televisions, refrigerators etc. it has also a online delivery of
food to increase its sales during this lock- down.

Practical and legal challenges
 Employees in the organizations needs to enjoy warm environment that is
to discuss about their issues or problems what they are facing withing a working
environment. This is the duty of employers to understand employees demand and
their needs. This improves the employees and work relation between them. M&S
plays very significant role in employees relations. As I company, employees and
employers both understand each other needs and follows rules and regulations
made by managers. This gives the opportunity to the company to expand its
business into different countries. But on the other hand there are some issues or
challenges that are to be faced by the company in expanding its subsidiary
branches in different countries (Guan, and Frenkel, 2018

Practical and legal challenges
 Conflict management:
 Difficult to meet each individual expectations
 Partial behavior should be avoided
 Safety and security in workplace
 Employees thought cannot be change
 Hour and wage issue
 Annual leave disputes
 Attendance woes

Recommend set of employment
relations issues
 Above question is the identification of the legal and practical issues that are faced
by the company in expansion of its branch internationally. Employee relation in
every company is required because they help the employees in engaging,
motivating and understanding each other needs and demands (Oluwatayo and
Adetoro, 2020). Employee and work relationships play very crucial role in every
organisation. This helps the employees in increasing their satisfaction,
productivity, retention, adevocacy, experience and empowerment. Employees
could share reviews, expectations with the managers.

Recommendations
 Promoting of dialogue and communication
 Focuses on company mission
 Rewards and appreciation
 Offer career development
 Help employees feel valued
 Promote work-life balance
 Using software to achieve error free

CONCLUSION
 From the above presentation it is concluded that Marks and Spencer is very stable in the market.
It is already expanded in various countries but now it needs to expand in more different
countries. For this it faces many legal and practically issues in the other countries market. In
above presentation there are legal issues and challenges are mentioned that organisation
experiences in managing the employment relationship within the contemporary workplace.
Issues like safety and security issues, conflict management and partial behaviour are the most
demanding challenges that are to be faced by the company while expanding its branch in other
countries. These challenges are to be considered in mind while doing the branch expansion.
Because other countries environment cultural is different from UK environment. There person
experiences are also different from the UK person. Also this presentation has made some
recommendations that are to be set for employment related issues.
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Reference
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