(Solution) 5HR01 AC 1.4 Explain the concept of better working lives and how this can be designed
Solution
In CIPD (2025), it is defined as “initiating positive and appropriate workplace experience for staff apart from only prioritising on their rewards and jobs security”. The outcome of this is initiating an environment facilitating employees gaining a feeling of high-value, facilitation and guaranteeing opportunities for professional and success. For the merger context, better working lives assists in enhancing quality of relations of all stakeholders hence maintaining commitment and involvement.
Examples of Better Working Lives
Rewards and Benefits– The issuance of market-based rewards which adhere to tenents of equity and equality enhance quality of working lives. In merger, when there emerges disparity in issued rewards such as in the merging organisations, dissatisfied human resources. This limits the quality of execution of their functions in their organisation. In line with CIPD (2025b), the people practice professionals are supposed to pursue reviews of rewards for guaranteeing their fairness, mitigate dissatisfaction and guarantee financial gains.
Health and Safety Environment (HSE)– This is even captured in UK Health and Safety Act of 1978 (CIPD, 2025c).
In merger, by enhancing the quality of this, in the merging organisation, they would successfully advance the normalcy of their working. Upon the public-sector organisation merging, there would be an automatic increase in the assigned functions. In SME Bank for instance, operating in banking industry, they have already initiated protocols meant for managing health and wellbeing of their employees, regularly assessing all risks and mental health facilitation. Cumulatively, Stiles et al. (2021) identify HSE opportunities as enhancing safety of the employees physically and psychologically.
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