APPRAISAL OF THE IMPACT OF EMPLOYEES HEALTH AND SAFETY ON PRODUCTIVITY
ABSTRACT
The purpose of the study was to establish ways in which employee’s health and safety. Productivity systems and teamwork could be used to enhance employee commitment to Unilever Nigeria Plc. The objectives of my study were to examine the commitment of the management of Unilever Nigeria Plc towards employee health and safety, to examine how employee health safety and teamwork affect employee commitment, to establish ways of implementing employee health and safety policies. The research questions for my study were what is the level of Unilever Nigeria Plc commitments to employee health and safety? Why the employees are upset about the existing employee health and safety policies? Is it affecting their teamwork? How can employee health and safety be implemented in the organization? And what is the best alternative means of getting the employers and employees to comply the implementation of employee health and safety policies? The methodology that was employed in the study looked at various sources of data, the sampling design, the procedures and the methods that were used in data collection, processing and analysis. The results and findings on the primary data are translated based on frequencies, percentage and weights of the study variables corroborated with qualitative data. In the presentation, illustration in form of tables, graphs, pie-charts, percentages as well as quantitative discussions have been used. The study shows that management of employee health and safety together with teamwork is a vital ingredient for achieving employee health and safety together with teamwork is a vital ingredient for achieving employee commitment to the organization. Much of the literature was based on reviews from the developed countries.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Most managers of human resources have the view that the employees are the greatest asset of the organization among the production variables (man, machine, money and materials resources) of the organization. Ironically, man is also seen as very problematic to deal with. Man is a rational being very consequently exhibits series of impeditable behavior. Even since Fredrick Winslow Tailors systematic study of management techniques, considerable research have been on the behavioural aspect of organization and members of what can motivate them.
Every business organization has a profit motive and profit is the outcome of productivity. The higher the productivity, the lower the unit cost of production which translate into more profit which of course is most desired by organizational members. A individuals joints a firm in the hope that he would receive a good and adequate medication, free from occupational hazard and most importantly satisfy his own needs or personal goal or objectives. Unilever Nigeria Plc like any other organization has one of the greatest challenges of its human resources, managers as that of influencing employees towards achieving organizational objectives. Because of the profit maximization interest of multinational companies aligned with the declining revenue acting from investment Unilever has places, its own remuneration packages, working environment, fringe benefit like meal subsidy, medical facilities, transport allowances, pension and gratuity benefit etc aimed at motivating staff, increase their satisfaction and enhance their performances. The issue now is what is the relationship between employee’s good health and safety on productivity?
APPRAISAL OF THE IMPACT OF EMPLOYEES HEALTH AND SAFETY ON PRODUCTIVITY
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