Employment relationship Flashcards
Employment relationship
The way in which people interact with one another in the jobs they do
The employment relationship is a dynamic of what?
A dynamic equilibrium of conflict and cooperation
What are the core features of the employment relationship (4)
- Effort reward bargaining
- Asymmetrical Power
- The commodity status of labour
- Economic interdependence
Effort reward bargain
Expectations of how much work from employees leads to a reward.
What are the issues around reward bargain in the employment relationship
Can be vague, monetary or non-monetary
Asymmetrical power
Power is centralised at the top of the organisation
What do employers want in the employment relationship?
Compliance from empoyees and freedom to implement decisions
What do employees want a say in?
How the organisation work, decision making, grievance and dispute
Commodity status of labour
The exchange value of labour when sold to an employer
What is the value of labour to the employee
Verry little as they can not derive money from it without the employer
Economic interdependence
Right to withdraw labour and the right for employers to withdraw employment
What are the 3 objectives of the employment relationship
Efficiency, equity, choice
Efficiency
Economic production of goods
Equity
Giving employees fair and compensation
Voice
Giving employees a say individually and collectively
Macro influences on the employment relationship (4)
Political legal, social and economic environment
Labour market
Technological developments
Skills and educational elements
3 micro influence on the employment relationship
Managerial ideology
Communication and representation structures
Reward strategies and mechanisms
Power
The ability to get somebody to do something they otherwise wouldn’t have done against their will
How do employees counter the asymmetry of power?
Collective bargaining
Structured antagonism
Where the employers give autonomy but at the same time have control over employees who will be antagonistic to attempts to minimise their discretion
Distributive justice
Fairness in outcomes received in relation to what other get
Procedural justice
Policy in the organisation are applied across the org
International justice
The way in which results are explained and how people are communicated to
Standard employment relationship assumptions (4)
- Full-time work
- Physical workplace
- Environment is fixed and permanent
- Employment contract is protected by legislation
