Nestlé - the Employment Relationship

Nestlé - The Employment Relationship

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Introduction
2 What is the employment relationship?
3 The importance of the employment relationship
4 Changes affecting the employment relationship
4.1 HRM vs. IR (Pluralist vs. Unitarist)
4.2 Globalization
4.3 Advances in Technology
4.4 Diverse Workforce
4.5 Restructuring and the Decline of manufacturing
4.6 Trade unions decline and marginalization
4.7 Terrorism / Civil unrest
4.8 Short term contracts, remote working, work life balance, agency work
5 Changes in HRM for the employment relationship
5.1 Human resources style at Nestle
5.2 People Management
5.3 Training
5.4 Communication
5.5 Recruitment
6 Creating a successful future - Peter Brabeck-Letmathe CEO Nestle
7 Conclusion
8 Evaluation
9 REFERENCE LIST of sites and materials used for this report.
10 Nestle additional information

Drawings, Diagrams, Photos
Fig 2 The Harvard Model Beer et al
Fig 3 The Michigan model - Fonbrun et al. (US)
Fig 4 David Guest’s model (Guest, 1992)

1. Introduction
Nestlé is a large international food manufacturer with over 250,000 employees worldwide Nestlé has a broad range of products and is the largest food manufacturer in the world. Nestlé has set high standards in corporate principles and its relationship with all of its stakeholders. Nestle has such a large scale of workers and must ensure they have a good management system to maintain the employment relationship.

2. What is the employment relationship?
The employment relationship is the agreement of conditions and arrangements between an employer and an employee and in most cases can be covered under a contract of employment either written or psychological. The direct influence now in the relationship is between the managers and the

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