INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT TOPICS

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the study

In recent years, there has been a growing concern about the health impacts of occupational exposures to hazardous substances in various industries, particularly within the realm of agriculture. This study focuses on the specific case of Giade Local Government A...

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This study examined employment practices and working conditions among contract employees in the American oil companies in Nigeria and the United States of America (USA) with a focus on comparative analysis of their working hours, remuneration, occupational health and safety, and degree of access to social protection. From a list of 12,736 contract employees in the American oil companies in Nigeria and the USA, a total of 600 respondents were randomly selected from Chevron a...

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The Construction industry has been classified as one of the most hazardous industry when it comes to occupational accidents and fatalities. Construction accidents do not only result to demotivation of workers, but also causes delay of project delivery, affect the quality of work delivered, increases overall cost of project, as well as arise to compensation of injured workers among others. The aim of this study was to determine the degree of compliance to safety behaviour of...

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The influence of strike action on employee‟s performance and productivity. Strike generally could be defined as the refusal to work by employees of an establishment to protest from certain inadequacies in their conditions of service. Strike is a work stoppage caused by mass refusal of employee to work. To solve this research problem, the workers should be given their pride of place and be put in the “hall of fames” because the workers are the light house of the...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Strike action also called labour strike or industrial action is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employee(s) to work. A strike usually takes place in respond to employee grievances. Strike became important during the Industrial Revolution, when mass labour became important in factories and mines. In most countries, they were quietly made illegal, as factory owners had far more political power than workers. Most western countries partially legaliz...

ABSTRACT This study is aimed at determining the impact of motivation on employee‟s job performance in an organization. (A case study of Access Bank Plc). The purpose here is to investigate and identify factors responsible for the current state of affairs and seek to find practical solution for lack of staff motivation and job performance. The research design is survey research design comprising of opinions, impressions and perceptions of the respondents. The sampling technique was simple rand...

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In a centralized organization, employees are not allowed to participate in decision making. This is because it is feared that they are not competent and as a result will not contribute meaningfully in decision of the organization. The essence of this project research is to assess the impact of employees participation in decision making in Nigerian public sector. The study was designed with descriptive survey method. Questionnaire interview including library materials were a...

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The aim of this research work is to appraise “The impact of credit management on the profitability of a manufacturing firm focused on Unilever Nigeria Plc Aba”. This is because; trade credit is a short term source of finance and sometimes take the form of bills payable. The statement problem of this research banks about the poor level of credit management and also the problems which the firms encounter as a result of high-rate of bad debts. The objective of this...

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The research topic of this study is the impact of change management in Nigerian Banking Industry, A study of United Bank for Africa (UBA) station Road, Enugu. The research was a descriptive research, the researcher made use of primary sources and secondary sources of data. The primary sources of data was obtained through questionnaire and oral interview while secondary sources was sourced through texts books ,journals and magazines The population of the study was seventy se...

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This work is concerned with salaries and wages administration in Nigeria public sector, a case study of Olamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi State. It is on this premise that the study is set to evaluate and highlight the significances of salaries and wages as factors towards achieving the aims and objectives of an organization. The employers of labour are aware of the fact that salary is also one way of motivating workers in an organization. The research design used in...

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This project work was carried out to determine the role of management in motivating workers in banking sector, using first Bank Nig. Plc, Okpara Avenue, Enugu State as a case study. The purpose of this study is to find out how workers in the banking sector derive motivation, taking into consideration the impact of management influence and the effect of this on productivity. Also research questions and hypothesis were stated to be used in generalization towards the end of th...

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Nigeria has not benefited tangibly from most of her dealing with other nations of the world. For this diplomatic calculation, therefore, President Yar‟Adua‟s foreign policy thrust shifted significantly from the conventional practice of blind economic diplomacy, to citizenship diplomacy. The citizenship diplomacy was clearly built on citizenship protection and welfare. Thus, a crucial attempt is made in this paper to examine the fallout of...

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Steganography is the art of hiding information within other information in such a way that it is hard or even impossible to identify the existence of any hidden information. There are many different carriers for steganography. Of which, most popular ones are digital images. Due to recent developments in steganalysis, providing security to personal contents, messages, or digital images using steganography has become difficult. By using steganalysis, one can...

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The research provides an appraisal of UN PEACEKEEPING IN AFRICA. It investigates the effectiveness and problems of the mission with a possible aim of proffering recommendations. The study appraises the structural nature of Un Peacekeeping in Africa.

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THE MAJOR PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO EXAMINE THE USES OF COMMITTEES AND GROUP MEETINGS IN ENHANCING DECISION MAKING IN NIGERIAN PUBLIC ORGANIZATION USING UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION BOARD, AWKA ANAMBRA STATE AS THE CASE STUDY IN THE COURSE OF FINDINGS, THE RESEARCHER MADE USE OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DATA IN ARRIVING AT ITS FINDINGS. SIMPLE PERCENTAGE WAS USED TO ANSWER AND ANALYSED THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS. THE RESEARCHER, HOWEVER  DISCOVERED THAT THE US...

BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

The Advanced Learners Dictionary defines maintenance as the process of protecting or preserving someone or something, or the process of keeping something in good condition. Culture, on the other hand, is a way of life, a lifestyle, customs, traditions, habits that portray the attributes of a person/people.

Maintenance culture is an attitude which is sadly lacking in Nigeria, whether in the home, office, school or factory. Mbamali(20...

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This research work seeks to reveal the Causes and effects of insecurity in Nigeria and the challenges and relevance of the Nigerian police force as a panacea. It is on this premise that the study bases its emphasis on the Nigerian police force to appraise and ascertain efforts and limitation encountered in providing adequate security to Nigerians. The subject matter is both timely and pivotal in this era when Nigeria’s image and freedom internationall...

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Our risk exposures are influenced by our economy, lifestyles, psychical well being, occupation, environment etc., there variables are dynamic therefore risk managers and analyst must be dynamic in their choice of tools to manage risk exposures.  In their choice of tools to manage risk exposures, in this project all the knowledge that might be useful to risk managers, however have been presented in the most important process and readable way.

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This project work is primarily covered with Leadership Style and their impact on employee productivity. A case study of Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company Kachia Road, Kilometer 16 Kaduna South, Kaduna. The first part of the project work introduces the reader to what extent leadership style have on employee productivity with background of the subject matter, the significant, objective and scope of the subject matter. Secondly, the researcher review t...

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Many developing countries are competing to attract foreign direct investment with a belief that it can be a tool for poverty reduction because it serves as supplements to domestic savings and it is often accompanied with technology and managerial skills which are indispensable in economic development. Foreign direct investment can contribute in significant ways to breaking of growth – poverty vicious circle and there lies Nigerian hope. The Nigeria government has open...

Statement of the Problem

Business organizations in Nigeria especially manufacturing industries failed to recognize the importance of motivation as a concept be it intrinsic such as employee well-being, relationship with co-workers, relationship with managers, organizational policies etc. or extrinsic such as training and career development, good working conditions, compensation, promotion amongst other factors that enhance or improve employee perfor...

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This project tests three possible explanations for why firms adopt job rotation: employee learning (rotation makes employees more versatile), employer learning (through rotation, employers learn more about individual workers’ strengths), and employee motivation (rotation mitigates boredom). Whereas previous studies have examined either establishment characteristics or a single firm’s personnel records, this study merges information from a detail...

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This study examined the properties of briquette produced from groundnut shell coal blend. A briquette is referred to as a block of compressed coal, biomass or charcoal dust that is used as fuel to start and maintain fire. Sub-bituminous coal was obtained from Onyeama mine, Enugu, Enugu State. Groundnut shell and cassava starch were obtained from Ogbete market, Enugu. Cassava starch was bought from Ogbete market, Enugu. While Calcium hydroxide was bought fr...

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This study examined Motivation and Employee productivity. Faced with the problem of low employee productivity, low employee morale and low overall organizational performance, the paper aimed at identifying various motivational techniques that exist in an organization, determination of the best motivational technique that can be employed to get the best out of employees and to determine ways of improving overall organizational performance. This study was car...

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This study had assessed the impact of motivation and incentives on employees’ job performance and productivity a case study of Nigeria Communications Commission. Three research questions and two hypotheses were formulated in this work .The survey research designed was employed in the collection and analysis of data for the study and the sample size was 94 staff of Nigerian communication commission. The success and the survival of any...

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This study is aimed at determining the impact of motivation on employee‟s job performance in an organization. (A case study of Access Bank Plc). The purpose here is to investigate and identify factors responsible for the current state of affairs and seek to find practical solution for lack of staff motivation and job performance.

The research design is survey research design comprising of opinions, impressions and perceptions of t...

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This project aims at examining importance of difference in wages rate at different level of workers in an organization. It will also look into how salaries will motivate to put in their best, to get the best outcome in an organization. The influence of the differential wage system on the employee satisfaction in Local government structure has not been examined. The objectives of the study were the examination of the role of recognition, allowances, trainin...

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This research work focuses on the role of salary increase as a means of increasing productivity of workers particularly in. The need for salary increase, qualities of a good salary increase, different types of incentive scheme were highlighted. Questionnaires were drawn up and administered on the worker in other to know and examine the cause of low productivity of workers. The findings indicate that there are shortages of cer...

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This research work aims at assessing the impact of human resources management of organizational performance of quantity surveying firms in Nigeria. In order to achieve this aim, the study aims at assessing the level of human resource management practice among quantity surveying firms, determining the relationship between human resource management practice and organizational performance of quantity surveying firms and identify which of the human resource man...

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This research study deals with an evaluation of the impact of wages and salaries administration on the Employee Productivity in Sona Breweries Nigeria Plc, with special reference to Sona Breweries Nigeria Plc Ogun state.  The objectives of the study is to find out government policies with respect to wages and salaries in various Sona Breweries Nigeria Plc, the problems encountered while implementing wages and salaries in Nigeria,...