Employee Relationship at the Public Sector Organization – British AirwaysEssay Preview: Employee Relationship at the Public Sector Organization – British AirwaysReport this essayTask 1Identify an organisation in the Public Sector. Through your own research, present an analysis of the organisations approach to employee relations (using relevant theories you have learned in
the module)This report will introduce the employee relationship at the public sector organization which is the British Airways (BA). Following the employment relations and introduction about companys issue will be discussed further. Employee relations are especially important in every functioning organization to maintain and operate the business. According to Blyton and Turnbull (2010: 275) employment relations are define as being “the context within which intricate interactions between employee and employer who are conducted collectively and individually”. Going back to the topic, British Airways is one of the leading airline companies in Europe, nevertheless in the last few years it has had financial problems, talks begin between British Airways and Unite (Britains biggest union) to solve the companys problems (BBC, 2012). The British Airways stated that they are going to cut staff on long-haul airlines and to freeze the payment of the cabin crew for two years (BBC, 2012). The majority of British Airways employees decided to take actions and strikes during Christmas period.
In this type of case, should be looked at development of strategic approach between employee and employer relations. As well as been noticed was achieved problematic conflict between two parties. Dean Tjosvold (2008:661) argues that “conflict is an inevitable aspect off all organizations” however, Buchanan and Huczynski (2010:661) state that “conflict is essential to successful teamwork and organizational effectiveness” and that “conflict a process that begins when one party perceives that another party has negatively affected, or is about to negatively affect, something the first part cares about”. Concerning the case of the Unite union there was conflict regarding British Airways employees strike during the Christmas period. It can be argued that dysfunctional conflict existed in this case as Butler and Rose (2011:161) say that “dysfunctional conflict is likely to be in the form of protracted industrial action such as strikes, go-shows, and overtime bans which creating long-lasting bad feeling between managers and workers”. There is other perspective on approaching conflict through frames of reference introduced by Alan Fox. The frames of reference as Roger Bennett (1991:661) defines as “a persons perceptions and interpretations of events and involve assumptions about reality, attitudes towards what is possible, and conventions regarding correct behavior”. There are four different frames of reference on conflict. They are labelled unitarist, pluralist, interactionist and radical (Buchanan and Huczynski, 2010:662). The Unite Union tried to avoid strikes in British Airways company. Taking to account this case would be appropriate to settle the problem with the Unitarist frame. As state Buchanan and Huczynski, (2010:662) this frame helps the organizations to cope well within the parties and assumes a commonality of interests between an organizations workers, managers, and company owners in harmonious manner.
References:BBC News,Charles Leatherbarrow, Janet Fletcher & Donald Curries, 2010, Introduction to Human Resource Management, 2nd ed., London: CIPDDavid A. Buchanan, Andrzej A. Huczynski, (2010), Organizational Behaviour, 7th Edition, England, Pearson EducationDerek Torrington, Laura Hall, Stephen Taylor, (2005), Human Resource Management, 6th Edition, England, Pearson EducationMichael Butler and Ed Rose, (2011), Introduction to Organisational Behaviour, London, CIPDTask 2Following on from your class discussion and with your own further research and consideration, apply the ALIEDIM model to absenteeism from university classes, suggesting the “DIM” that you would consider fair and appropriate.
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