Analyzing Employment Relationship Challenges at Amazon Company

This presentation examines the practical and legal challenges faced by Amazon in managing its employment relationships, including issues such as gender-based team distinctions, conflict management, wage disputes, workplace safety, and annual leave disagreements. It highlights the importance of maintaining a positive employee-employer relationship to enhance productivity and profitability. The presentation recommends strategies such as unbiased team allocation based on skills, improved communication and employee involvement, transparent wage and hour practices using self-service software, and enhanced workplace safety measures with scheduled breaks. The conclusion emphasizes the need for organizations to address these challenges effectively to foster a better employee relationship and overall organizational success. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and resources for students.

Challenges of managing employment
relationship

INTRODUCTION
• Employment relationship refers to the relationship which is basically based on the
agreements and the contracts between the parties, employee and employer by
having the mutual obligations in order to work and have the pay for that work.
• This presentation is based on the Amazon which is the multinational company and
focuses on the e-commerce, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, etc.
• It is basically one of the biggest companies and works internationally.
• This presentation will outline the practical and legal challenges that the
organization experience

A. The practical and legal challenges
that company experience in managing
the employment relationship
• Employee relations are the relation between the employer and employee in the
organization.
• This used to maintain the positive environment and make the efforts in order
to enhance the work and productivity of the employees in the organization.
• Amazon Company must have the plans for their employees and should invest
in order to have the productivity in the work.

Cont.…
There are some practical and legal challenges that company experience in managing
the employment relationship:
1. Distinguish the team with same members of the same gender
2. Conflict management
3. Hours and wage issues
4. Adequate safety work
5. Annual leave disputes:

Contd..
• Distinguish the team with same members of the same gender: As there are many employees in
the company and basically they are divided into the team. The organization has to make the team
in accordance with the skills and knowledge of the each member. As the company cannot divide
the team with having the same number of gender employees it makes the employees feel
demotivated. The employees and the organization than used to face the lot of conflicts which are
difficult to manage by them.
• Conflict management: This is used to happen in the every type of organization, but the company
should avoid this. The happening of the disputes between the employers and employees creates
the lots of difficulty in the organization. This used to decrease the productivity of the company
and the company used to have the loss or less profit for that year. The organization used to
manage the work properly which creates the less conflicts among and between the employer and
employee. By doing this it will maintain the profitability of the company.

B. Recommendations
• The company should not distinguish the team members on the basis of gender. As
they used to allocate the team with the skills and knowledge having in the
employees. By doing this this makes the employees to feel motivated in their
work and increases the productivity of the work. By doing this it manages the
company to have the better employee relationship in the workplace.
• As everyone in the company has different tolerance power, so the organization
must communicate nicely with the employees. By communicating and
encouraging they must provide the chance to employees to express their opinions
too. By getting suggestions from the employees the organization must apply those
it they are required in the company. This reduces the misunderstandings and
creates the trust between the employer and employee in the company.

Contd…
• It is recommended to Amazon Company that they must set the basic working hours and wages for the
employees.
By having the self- service time recording software which helps the company to have the proper
time recording of the working hours of the employees.
It is very effective way foe the Human resource management to monitor the working hours of the
employees. This helps to increase the trust and build the bonds between the employer and employee
relationship.
• It is recommended to the company that they should incorporate the better safety tips at the workplace.
This helps to ensure that they have to manage the safety and this safety tips are needed to be focused.
The company must have the break hours in order to boost up the energy of the employees. By giving
those breaks this makes the employees to increase their enthusiasm in order to increase the productivity and
profitability of the company.

CONCLUSION
• From the above presentation it is concluded the organization has to experience the
various practical and legal challenges in order to maintain the employee
relationship.
• The issues are such as Distinguish the team with same members of the same
gender, Conflict management, Hours and wage issues, Adequate safety work,
Annual leave disputes, Difficult to meet expectations of each employee, Support
the better employees, Discrimination on the basis of gender and Time keeping and
attendance issues.
• Further it describes the recommendations to these challenges.

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