Employer/Employee Relations
The relationship can impact on performance
- If happy = motivated and productive
Rates of pay
- Employer wants wages suppressed
- Employee wants higher wages for own personal standards of living
New technology
- Employer wants it to increase output and efficiency
- Employee fears it as could cause job losses or having to learn new methods of production
Flexible working
- Employer wants s help manage production and can keep costs low
- Employee find it an unpopular method
Working conditions
- Employer will provide what’s needed
- Employee will want better conditions through benefits
PROBLEMS – Solved by:
- Individual approach, negotiation for personal gain however unfair ground
- Collective bargaining, where employee is represented by trade union
Collective bargaining
- Agreements are transparent and binding
- Rules and terms more likely to be respected
- More equitable – power is equal between parties
- Favouritism and victimisation may be reduced
- Views aren’t always reflected
- Costs are high
- Owners may feel freedom to manage compromise
- Can be lengthy process