Evaluating HRM at Kingfisher: Employee Relations & Legal Framework

This report analyzes the effectiveness of Human Resource Management (HRM) elements at Kingfisher, focusing on employee relations and compliance with employment legislation. It emphasizes the importance of proper communication, career development, vision, and motivation in maintaining positive employee relations. The report also discusses key employment laws such as the Equality Act 2010 and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, highlighting their impact on HRM decision-making at Kingfisher. It concludes that adhering to these laws and fostering strong employee relations are crucial for improving employee performance and overall organizational success. Desklib offers similar solved assignments and resources for students.

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Answer 5
To: HR Director, Kingfisher
From: Assistant Human Resource Manager
Subject: Effectiveness of the elements in HRM of Kingfisher
Date: 7/12/2017
Employee Relation
In order to improve the proper performance of employees at the workplace, HRM needs to ensure proper
effective relations with employees. HRM at Kingfisher helps in focusing on the proper maintenance of
the employee relations. If the respective company fails to improve the employee relations, the
performance of the company will detoriate as well.
Proper strategies can be adopted by Kingfisher in order to maintain proper employee relations such as:
Proper communication is essential in nature wherein the employer will provide proper
necessary to the employees to make them updated about the different operations of the
company. For instance: Kingfisher has to provide proper information to the different
employees about different new arrival or products as well as features of product to the
sales personnel. This will enable the employees of Kingfisher to increase sales by
providing proper satisfaction to the employees. This will even help sales personnel to
maintain proper and good employee relations.
Career development opportunities are essential wherein the employees will properly work
in organization to build the careers that are expected. For this kind of reasons, Kingfisher
will provide the employees different career development opportunities. It has to properly
commit the employees that they will be getting promoted with the proper performance.
Therefore, the employees will be motivated and loyal to the organization (Helmreich and

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Merritt 2017).
Vision is essential wherein Kingfisher has developed a proper vision in such a technique
that it will help in stimulating the employees to provide better performance. This kind of
vision will be designed as this will help in achieving the goals of the organization as well.
Proper motivation is essential in nature as this will help in maintaining proper employee
relations in the workplace. If the respective company motivates the employees properly,
this will prove to be more effective in nature. For instance: proper rewards and
recognitions have to be provided to the employees in the organization as this will help the
organization to gain competitive advantage. Proper increase in the salary will help in
increasing the motivation of the employees as well (Shaw, Park and Kim 2013)
The employees in the respective organization need to analyze the good health of
employers as well as of the organization. For instance: Kingfisher Company will provide
proper good and proper environment in the workplace along with safe instrument to
properly use as well as provide them proper opportunities of travel. This will help
Kingfisher in maintaining good employee relations as well (Budhwar and Debrah 2013).
Therefore, it can be concluded that proper employee relations is essential in nature as this will help in
improving the performance of employees and the organization as well. This kind of relations of
employees and employers in the organization will provide proper and positive outcome for the entire
company as well. The respective company will help in contributing towards the improvement of the
performance of the different employees in the workplace (Holsapple 2013).
Answer 6
There are different employment legislations that will affect the decision making of the HRM that has been
explained below:
Equality Act 2010

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The Equality Act 2010 is proper combination of acts of UK that includes disability discrimination as well
as race relation act (Armstrong 2014). This act helps in stating that organization has to properly ensure
the organization provides proper and equal opportunity for employees in the organization. This particular
act does not properly allow any kind of discrimination based on age, sex, gender as well as religion.
Kingfisher company has to obey rules as well as regulations of the particular law. However, the
government can terminate the operations of business of Kingfisher when law finds breach of law. The
Equality Act has stated that the employees in the organization has to be treated equally as this will help
them in gaining confidence to work equally in the respective organization. The equality has to be
maintained as this will help the entire organization to generate success (Schutte, Barkhuizen and van
der Sluis 2016).
Health and Safety at work Act 1974
The employer ensures proper good health of the employee in the workplace. For instance: Kingfisher
Company helps in providing employees good work environment, safe instrument to use as well as provide
proper travel opportunities. These will help the respective company in maintaining good employee
relations. Proper health and safety of the employees and employer is essential as this will help in proper
access to the employees who are working in the particular organization as well (Jackson, Schuler and
Jiang 2014).
As per the Health and Safety Act 1974, Kingfisher should maintain following objectives:
It has to ensure proper effectiveness in the operation system as well as work
Proper and safe access and exit has to be applied for employees
It has to implement proper facility of treatment (Wang, Noe and Wang 2014)
Proper training on safety and health management has to be provided to employees
Dismissal as well as employment contracts
Both the employees and the employer of the organization can terminate the entire job. The employers use
proper dismissal as well as employees use resignation in the workplace. They both have to properly

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comply with the legal rules as well as regulations. For instance: employees has to properly present written
statement before a week and the employers has to be properly oblige to follow the different rules and
regulations that is legal in nature of the employment.
Employment Protection Act 1978
This is the particular act that helps in stating that the organization has to properly provide certain kind of
structure of salary, working hours, pension as well as other commencement of job. Kingfisher human
resource manager has to properly provide employees with effective structure of salary; otherwise the
court has to declare the organization at breach of laws as well. Proper protection of employees is essential
in nature as this will help in providing different other essentials that are required in order to make the
employee safe and secured in the workplace.
Yours sincerely
A,
Assistant Human Resource Manager

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