STRATEGIES FOR HEALTHY EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONSHIP IN ORGANIZATION. (A CASE STUDY OF EMENITE COMPANY LIMITED EMENE ENUGU)
ABSTRACT
Employments are a contract and the express and implied terms of this contract are still the basis of the relationship between employer and employee. However this employment relationship arises when one person (the employee or work) supplied his skill and labour to another (the employer or mater) in return for payment.
On the other hand for social economic and political reasons there has been increasing government intervention in employment since the early nineteenth century. As will be seen many of the rights and duties of the parties are imposed by legislation today still there is unhealthy relationship between the employers of labour and their employees. This problem had caused devastating and unfavorable consequences in the work place paralyzing the activities of many organization/ companies in this country which given rise is adverse economic situation and a coarsened standard of living of the people there in.
This project work has been timely written on the strategy for enhancing a healthy employer- employee relationship in an organization. The researcher therefore carried out exhaustive investigation to identify most of the problems militating against a health employer- employee relationship and discourse the instruments of enhancing a healthy relationship between the management/employer and their employee/ worker. The work also investigated the courses of industrial conflicts in an organization its effect or the economy the grievance processes, the impact of a healthy employer- employee relationship in workers productivity.
Finally it reveals the findings of the study recommend some operational strategies to remedy the situation are the conclusion there in.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
From years back disputer over the terms and conditions of employment are inherent in the employer- employee relationship such disputer have existed from the day an employer hired his first employee in the organization.
This disagreement may be as a result of all or some of the problem enumerated below
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Employment problems and employment scantiest
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Condition of work hours of work shifts.
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Remuneration levels method of wage payment
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Staff health and welfare at work
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Employment development up grading and promotions etc
The inability on the management or employer to resolve these employment problem with his employee gives rise to industrial disharmony/ strike and discord which in recent times has remained one of the national problem plaguing so many organizations in the country.
In most cases this unhealthy relationship existing between the employer another employee is accompanied by very unfavorable consequences in the work place such consequences as industrial strike the go-slow the work to rule sit-down strike work in and a lot others.
This has often paralyzed the activities of the organization in this country resulting in adverse economic situation and a hoarsened standard of living of the people there in it is against this background that the researcher has embarked on this research work to review the industrial relationship system in the country and advance for strategies for healthy employee- employee relationship in organization using Emenite company limited Emene Enugu as a cast study. It is therefore hoped that this study will have answers to the above labour problems and establishes ways of enhancing a strong and viable healthy relationship between the employers another employee in organization which will go a long way in creating industrial harmony in the work place
