HNBS 124 Employee Relations

Abstract

This piece of study aims to talk about the employee relations as stretched out throughout the industry after the Britain is in the process of climbing out of the 1930's worse recession. The coalition government is also taking its efforts in order to lower the national debt, and it has announced enormous cuts in spending because of the affects that it has on all levels of the population. Thus, the motive of this paper is to highlight employee relations after the occurrence of numerous changes in the background. Moreover, the study also aims to discuss the nature of industrial conflicts that are arising and the resolution efforts. The major frames of references in this regard are also included in the discussion. Moreover, the differing perspectives of stakeholders in the context of employee relations are also reviewed. In addition to this, role of trade unions, main actors in employee relations, procedures to follow by the organizations in order to deal with conflicting situations, key features of employee relations, and the effectiveness of numerous procedures in conflicting situations are also included in this study.

Introduction

The changing nature of the work, particularly the patterns, characters, and places of work have been the subject of speculation and intense policy debates. A number of questions are arising in this context such as what will be the character of employment opportunities in the future if it will going to be radically different from the present character? Will there be sufficient number of jobs that could support the health and wealth of the nation? Will there be a re-drawing of the limitations and boundaries between the unpaid and paid work? Such questions and numerous others are arising because of the changing nature of work, and finding answer to them is not as easy. Moreover, various think tanks, policy makers, and other visionaries are trying to impose their own interpretations about the future of work, and hence, they have also given a number of responses to these questions.

Discussion

Employment relations, human resources, or industrial relations, are the terms that are being used in the same context in the 20th century. It is a multidisciplinary field in which all the aspects related to work and employment relationships are included. Moreover, the term multidisciplinary also covers the assumptions and competing values that underlie the policies, analyses, and practices of policy makers, employment relations scholars, and practitioners (Budd, 2006, pp. 5-17).

However, these underlying beliefs are unfortunately more implicit rather than explicit, and the long term focus on how these processes of industrial relations work is mostly ignored. But a deeper understanding of these employment relationships, labor union strategies, public policies related to work and other such matters require the understanding of values and assumptions of ideologies, and frame of references used by policy makers and scholars.

Other commentators also assert typically that new technologies, forces of globalization, and restructuring of businesses are some other aspects that have their critical impacts on the changing nature of work as ...