Managing Employee Relations

Managing Employee Relations Assignment
Section 1: Evaluate three major external constraints placed upon your Organisation’s approach to employee relations (1,018 words)

Section 2: Analyse management’s approach to employee relations in your organisation making reference to appropriate academics models (1,023 words)

Section 3: Evaluate whether the approaches identified in Section 2 above are the most effective for your organisation in the near future (3-5 years), justify any recommendations you make for a different approach (1,043 words)

Introduction
This report is in three sections.   The first section outlines the external constraints that impact upon employee relations within the organisation. A brief summary of this organisation can be found within Appendix 1.   The second section outlines management’s approach to employee relations and the final section evaluates the effectiveness of this approach.

External Constraints on Employee Relations

Three key external constraints on employee relations within the organisation are recognised trade unions, legislation and competition.   These constraints have been chosen as they are all very different to each other and impact upon the organisation in very different ways.

Trade Unions
Trade unions are recognised within an organisation as representing of all, or a group of employees for the purpose of jointly determining the terms and conditions of employment (Salamon, 2001).  

There are three unions that are recognised by the organisation for the purposes of collective bargaining.   These unions represent the 3 main groups of staff.   Those on a local contract are not represented by a recognised union.   These unions negotiate on a national basis to determine the national framework of pay and conditions of members.   (Farnham, 2000)   These negotiations are an external constraint to the university, as they determine amongst other things, the level of the annual pay award.   The impact on employee relations... [continues]

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