BSC (Hons) Business Management: Work and Employment Presentation

This presentation explores the practical and legal challenges within the employment relationship, focusing on organizations like Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury. It covers conflict management, issues related to work hours, employee safety, annual leave disputes, attendance and timekeeping, sexual harassment, and the gender gap. The presentation provides recommendations for improving employee relations, such as adopting a democratic leadership style and utilizing technology for efficient operations. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of online platforms, technology, and software to reduce conflicts and improve overall work processes. The presentation also includes references to relevant academic sources.

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Contents
 INTRODUCTION 3
 Practical and legal challenges in employment relationship 3
 Recommendations 6
 CONCLUSION 7
 REFERENCES 9

INTRODUCTION
Relationship is necessary to be maintained with the employees so that flow of
work can go on consistently. It works when both the parties that is
employees and management of the company are under mutual consent. In
order to maintain the relationship both the parties need to put up lot of
efforts and more the efforts portrayed by the company more it will keep
the employees of the company loyal towards them.

Practical and legal challenges in
employment relationship
Conflict management-
There is no guarantee that conflict won’t take place even after taking
security measures they can take place anywhere and this is why the place of work
is no different than others.
Issues related to hours of work and wage rate-
Many of the employees in Marks & Spencer feels that they have to go
through the same issue of work related hours and overtime every month around the
time of payday. Many employees feel that it is not accurate.

Continued..
Adequate amount of safety in the company-
Every company such as Marks & Spencer which is operating on a large
scale is concerned about the fact that any employee must not get injured in the
premises of the office of the company or met with an accident in the specific job
hours. It is necessary and important for Marks & Spencer to keep this as a priority
and put preventive measures into their facility irrespective of the nature the
company is dealing in it is necessary for everyone
Annual leave disputes-
It is necessary for the company to form a policy of leaves for the
employees which is under the guidelines formed by state and federal laws. If the
company is not able to form up a perfect structure regarding leaves for the
employees then they have the perfect and easy option to consider that is to use and
implement a software for management of leaves.

Continued..
Issues regarding attendance and timekeeping-
There are many issues which every company faces such as late coming
of employees and starting their work late which causes insufficiencies in the whole
atmosphere of work. Although these type of issues faced by the company are
common and often.
Sexual harassment-
Marks & Spencer needs to make sure that this type of any activity in the
company can disrupt the relations between employees and management and law
will have to take strict actions against them.
Gender gap-
There are many employees in different companies who has to go through
with these factors. This is why Marks & Spencer has made specifically mentioned
in their guidelines that there will be no cases regarding this aspect.

Recommendations
It is necessary that Marks & Spencer puts their focus on the maintaining the
relationship between employees so that company is able to work under
collaboration and coordinated measures among all the tasks and projects. By
implementing this they will be able to make sure that they are able to achieve their
goals and set targets efficiently and effectively.

Continued..
In order to reduce the level of conflicts Marks & Spencer has another options and
that is to change their style of leadership to democratic style of leadership
because then leaders will be able to have control and everyone will be able to
work in harmony not discard. Marks & Spencer can never change the thought
process or the way employee perceives things which leads them towards
conflicts but with the help of effective measures such as keeping software to
keep a track of everything they will be able to reduce it.

CONCLUSION
From the above studies it has been concluded that Marks & Spencer needs to take
effective use of online platforms, technology and different software so that they
can perform their operations efficiently and remove the factor of conflicts between
employees or managers. There has been cases in the company which has forced
them to either shift them to another branch or terminate them. This totally affects
the flow of work. The software implemented will help them to show that who is
right on their statement and motivate them to work for more, this way even HR of
the company will remain cautious as the whole control of leaves and settlement
will be with them.

REFERENCES
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