Analysis of Employment Relations at H&M: Challenges and Solutions

This report offers an in-depth analysis of the employment relationship within Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), a multinational clothing retailer. It begins by defining employment relations and emphasizing its importance for business success. The report then identifies various practical and legal challenges faced by H&M, including conflict management, wage and hour issues, workplace safety concerns, annual leave disputes, timekeeping and attendance problems, lack of trust and faith, indiscipline, and lack of collaboration among employees. Following the identification of these challenges, the report provides several recommendations to address these issues, such as proper management strategies, the adoption of a democratic leadership style, the use of leave and attendance management software, the implementation of online communication tools, adherence to the Equal Pay Act, building trust and faith among employees, promoting discipline, and improving collaboration. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and reiterating the significance of strong employment relations for organizational success. The report references several academic sources to support its analysis and recommendations.

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Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Practical and legal challenge that business experience in
employee relations
• Recommendations to set issues in employee relations
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
The employment relationship refers as to build employee engagement
and involvement with collaboration of managers, leaders and
employees. It is essential for business to focus on developing good
relations of workforce which results in achieving success efficiently
that leads to compete with rivalries. The organisation selected for this
project is Hennes and Mauritz (H&M) as being a Swedish
multinational clothing-retail company known for its fast-fashion
clothing for men, women and children (Bernhardt and Krause, 2014).

Hennes and Mauritz (H&M)
The Hennes and Mauritz Company is a multinational clothing-
retail company known for its fast-fashion clothing for men,
women and children. It operates in 74 countries with over 5,000
stores under various brands with it headquarters in Stockholm,
Sweden. It was founded by Erling Persson on 4th October, 1947
at Vasteras, Sweden. The Chief Executive Officer of organisation
is Karl-Johan Person on 1st July, 2009.

Employee Relations
This is defined as the process through which company
develops co-ordination among their employers and employees
for completing a specific task within particular duration.
Managers of H&M Company build good employment
relations among their workers as to encourage them to
complete task efficiently in order to achieve individual and
organisational goals (Carter, 2019).

Practical and Legal challenge that
business experience in employee relations
There are various types of practical and legal challenge in
employment relationships which are mostly experienced by
company. It further delay in goal accomplishment and lacks in
proper management of employee relations. The managers of
H&M Company analyse these challenge as to restrict the
possibility of instability in perfect competition market.

Practical and Legal challenge that
business experience in employee relations
• Conflict management:- The main challenge of conflicts
between various workers within the whole workforce result in
lack of discipline, distrust and unfaith, disrespect, etc. It
develops an adverse environment within business which lacks
in accomplishment of target at particular durations. The
conflicts mostly rose in business due to partiality, jealousy,
etc., which lacks in collaboration of workers. The managers of
H&M Company are unfavourably affected by this as these
conflicts result in delay of goal accomplishment.

Practical and Legal challenge that
business experience in employee relations
• Hour and wage issue:- The main purpose of managers is to
provide wages to their workers by analysing their task done
within particular duration. It is most important for company
for giving minimum compensation to their workforce and
further provides monetary rewards such as bonus, incentives,
etc., to improve their motivation (Chandramohan, 2017).

Practical and Legal challenge that
business experience in employee
relations
• Adequate Safety in workplace:- It is the main duty and
responsibility of managers to focus on safety of their workers
by providing them safety gears such as helmets, gloves, boots,
etc. It attracts workers to give their best efforts for business as
they provide certain safety measures to workforce.

Practical and Legal challenge that
business experience in employee relations
• Annual Leave dispute:- The most common issue faced by
managers of company is to deal with annual leave disputes of
labours. It is the reason for not maintaining the stable record
of labour that lacks in actual leave report of workers and is
sometimes create wages and salary for leave applicant.

Practical and Legal challenge that
business experience in employee
relations
• Time keeping and attendance issues:- The managers of a
company mainly face the challenge of time keeping and
attendance issues. This is the problem faced by managers as to
analyse the timings and discipline manner of employees within
their contemporary workplace in order to analyse punctuality
of workforce.

Practical and Legal challenge that
business experience in employee relations
• Lack in trust and faith:- The main consequences for
improper employment relations is workers lacks in building
trust and faith among each other. This result in unable to
understand emotions and feelings of workers within them as
they does not respect value, beliefs, norms, ethos, etc. Hennes
and Mauritz (H&M) Company managers are adversely
affected by their workforce as they are not able to share their
views, information, knowledge, skills and emotions.