Managing Employment Relationships: Tesco's Challenges Presentation

This presentation examines the practical and legal challenges Tesco faces in managing its employment relationship. It delves into issues such as conflicts, working hours, and wage disputes, highlighting their impact on the company's operations and employee satisfaction. The presentation provides a detailed overview of the employment relationship, emphasizing the importance of maintaining positive employee relations for organizational success. It then offers specific recommendations for Tesco to address these challenges, including fostering open communication channels and ensuring fair compensation practices. By implementing these strategies, Tesco can improve its employee relations, enhance productivity, and achieve its business objectives. The presentation concludes by summarizing the key takeaways and reinforcing the significance of effective employment relationship management within the retail industry.

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

Introduction
Employment relation refers to efforts of organization for creating and maintaining
positive relationship within employees and employers. In addition to this, by
maintaining positive constructive employee relations business firm hope for keeping
staff members loyal and get more engaged within their work. This presentation is
based on Tesco which is part of retail industry and founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen.
It will be going to discuss practical and legal challenges which organisation
experience in managing employment relationship within contemporary workplace.
Along with this, recommend set of employment relations issues will also elaborate.

Practical And Legal Challenges In
Employment Relationship
Employment relationship is legal link within employers and employees. In addition to
this, employment relationship only exists when individual performs work or services
within specific condition in return for remunerations. For proper working of company
and accomplishing desired goals when needed it is essential for Tesco to have good
relation within employers and employees. Moreover, there are numerous legal
challenges which Tesco experience in managing employment relationship. Explanation
of these are as follows :-

Cont..
 Conflicts – It is one of the major challenges which organization face in
maintaining employment relationship when things of employers and employees
don’t get match with each other then it results in creating several conflicts. In
addition to this, conflicts in Tesco may result in disturbing overall activities of
companies and hamper productivity of organization as well as employees both.
Although, it is important to manage conflict in effective manner because this may
result in delay within accomplishing desired goals and objectives in better
manner.

Cont..
 Hours and wages issues – It is related to working hours of employees as well as wages which
given by employers in against of their works. This also become major issue within employment
relation when employees don’t get extra pay for working hours which they work in company.
Along with this, if wages provided by employers to employees is not according to the working
hour and job role of employee. Then it may result in creating legal challenges because wages
according to the work is right of every individual working within business firm.
These are major legal as well as practical challenge which an business firm face while in
employment relationship. If these issues will manage in effective manner then their will be no
negative impact in working of Tesco as well as its goals and objectives will also accomplish in
required manner.

Recommendations To A Set Of Employment
Relations Issues
For Tesco company it is important to manage employment relation related issues in effective manner
for gaining appropriate outcomes in required manner. Below mention are some recommendation in
relation of Tesco explanation of these are as follows :-
 For resolving issues related to conflict it is important for Tesco to always have two-way
conversation and it has to be from top to bottom and bottom to top. So, that each and every
individual will able to discuss issues related to anything with employers in proper manner. Such
practices will result in reducing conflict as well as these will manage in better manner and
productivity of company will also not get hampers. Moreover, goals and objectives will also
accomplish in required manner effectively.

Cont..
 Hours and wages is also one of the major issue which required to be manage in appropriate
manner. Moreover, for resolving issues related to this it is responsibility of employers to ensure
that to staff wages have to be provided according to their job roles. In addition to this, if
employees are working extra hours then it is responsibility of employers to provide them extra
wages according to the extra working hours.
Thus, by implementing above mention recommendation Tesco will able to manage employment
relation in effective manner as well as they also accomplish desired goals and objectives within
required time period.

Conclusion/Summary
After going through overall presentation, it has been concluded that it is important
for a business firm to maintain good relation with employees. Along with this, there
are several challenges which a business firm face while managing employee
relation. But through implementation of several practices’ organisation will able to
maintain good relation with employees in effective manner.

Reference List
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• Latorre, F., Guest, D., Ramos, J. and Gracia, F.J., 2016. High commitment HR
practices, the employment relationship and job performance: A test of a mediation
model. European Management Journal, 34(4), pp.328-337.
• Aloisi, A. and De Stefano, V., 2020. Regulation and the future of work: The
employment relationship as an innovation facilitator. International Labour
Review, 159(1), pp.47-69.

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