The Influence of Strike Action on Employees Performance and Productivity

Abstract of The Influence of Strike Action on Employees Performance and Productivity

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 world who should be given their salaries promptly, given them incentives, make sure they are satisfied job-wise so as to be more dedicated thereby producing good giants who will uplift the tone of the nation within and outside the nation. The society itself could solve this contemporary problem of strikes, the financial gain is not coming in thousand; frustration is being meted to the workers from the citizenry. The design of the study used for this study was survey design. The population put together is 12,000 and the sample size is 746.

Chapter One of The Influence of Strike Action on Employees Performance and Productivity

INTRODUCTION

Strike generally could be defined as the refusal to work by employees of an establishment to protest for certain inadequacies in their conditions of service.

Strike is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. Strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances.

In most countries, they were quickly made illegal as factory owners hand political power than workers. Most Western countries partially legalized striking in the 19th or ea 20th centuries.

Strikes are sometimes used to put pressure on government to change policies. It will also be noted that strike is not peculiar to universities alone but to other organizations or pressure groups such as:

Nigeria labour Congress (NLC)
Nigeria Bar Association (NBA)
Nigeria Union of Journalist (NUJ)
Nigeria Medical Association (NMA)

Higher Institutions that are liable to embank on strike actions include:-

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUNU)
The National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS)
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP)
The Academic Staff Union of College of Education etc

When strike occurs in an organization, workers suffer most and in this way, the Nigeria working system has been thoroughly destroyed.

There is no way to remedy this situation apart from the individual employees concerned to stand up and demand for their right.

Although, strike may create temporary difficulties for workers in the sense that it will stop their work and without their work, they won`t earn a living. this situation of our country Nigeria will not be fully developed because they will be back of or less production because of the strike action management has not put its priorities right. it is in protest of these misplaced priorities and inadequacies that these management and Nigeria union of worker. ie the Nigeria labour congress (NLC).

In most cases, the employers and the employees would have explored all avenues for dialogue and strike becomes the last option for the settlement of disputes.

Before the introduction of strike among Nigeria worker in the years 1963 by PA Imodu, the authorities have always worked in peace and harmony with their privilege to work as an employee in any organization because they always had great expectations both the senior and the junior staff worked happily together as members of the same community and guided by a sense of mission to promote and preserve their working performance.

Today, the issue of strike in our country has been so rampant that the government will have to do something urgently so as not to Jeopardize the interest of the employees on how to improve their performance and productivity in their place of work. But before the emergence of union, there had been spontaneous strike and protests against poor conditions of work in several African countries.

In the strike that took place in sierra-leane in 1874. In Senegal, rail road workers had frequently engaged in sporadic strikes against the dehumanizing conditions of work.

In practice, however, it has been difficult to separate strike from other forms of expression of industrial dispute as employers lock out workers and workers them-selves embank on strike action. it is or useful to view both phenomena as part and parcel of the conflict situation, not as opposite. rarely does a strike occur over a single issue for an obvious cause may be linked with several others issues that are not immediately apparent to the observation that have caused dis-satisfaction because solutions to them have been long in coming. The actual occurrence of a strike depends on several factors including prevailing circumstance. This also goes to show that few strikes occur spontaneously especially as there is no way of guaranteeing that a strike action instead of other forms of strike action would be decided upon by worker involved.

BRIFY HISTORY OF CASE STUDY

The University of Nigeria, commonly referred to UNN, is a Federal University located in Nuskka, Enugu State, Nigeria. Founded in 1955 and formally opened on 7th October 1960, the University of Nigeria has four campuses-Nuskka, Enugu and Ituku-OzallaLocated in Enugu State and one in Aba, Abia State Nigeria.

The University of Nigeria was the first full fledges indigenous and first autonomous educational system. it is the first land-grant university in African and one of the five elite universities in the country. The university has 15 faculties and 102 academic departments. The university offers 211 undergraduate programmers and 82 postgraduate programmers.

The University celebrated its 50th anniversary in October 2010.

A law to establish a university in the Eastern Region of Nigeria was passed on may 18, 1955 while that date marks the formal beginning of the history of the university of Nigeria, the enactment of this legislation by several Nigeria leaders, and inspired particularly by then premier of the Eastern Region, Dr. Nnamdi

Azikwe. One of the first steps taken by Eastern Nigeria Government towards the implementation of its commitment was an invitation to both the United States of American and the United Kingdom to send advisers to help in the planning of physical structures and educational aspects of the proposed university.

Under the joint auspices of the inter overseas and the international Education Administration (now the United States

Agency for international the Development). J.W. Cook, Vice Chancellor of the University of Exacter, Dr. John A Hannah,

President of Michigan state university and Dr. Glen L. Taggart, Dean of International programmers at the same university came to Nigeria in 1958. The team surveyed the site at Nsukka, and extensively investigated a great variety of factors pertinent to the establishment of a new university.

The result of their efforts were contained in a while paper issued by the Eastern Nigeria Government on 30 November 1958.

They had recommended “that the development of the University of

Nigeria based upon the concept of service to problems and needs of Nigeria is a desirable project and one that should receive support from any source which could help to make it a sound Endeavour”.

They further recommended that a provisional council be

established to “draw upon the technical and consultative

Resource available throughout the world to help in planning the institution” the provisional council authorized by the Eastern Nigeria legislature, was appointed by the Governor in council in April 1959, and given necessary financial and administrative powers to build a sound university. it reflected the spirit of international co-operation which has given birth to the institution. it consisted of Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe. Dr. T. Olawale Elias and Dr. Okechukw Ikejiani from the federation of Nigeria, J.S. Fulton from the United Kingdom, Dr. Marguertu Cartwright and Dr. Eldon Lee Jonson from the United State of American.

The university was formally opened on 7th October 1960, as the Celebrations in the Eastern Region. her Royal Highness

Princess Alexandra of Kent, represent HER Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11 at the Nigeria independence celebrations performed the opening ceremonies and laid the foundation stone of one of the university`s early buildings.

Classes began on 17 October 1960 with an enrollment off 220 students and 13 members of the academic staff other opening convocation addresses were delivered by the chairman of the provisional council, Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe, the first president of the federation of Nigeria and by Dr. John A. Hannah, president of Michigan State University, U.S.A.

The university was fully autonomous, with the power to grant its own degree technology speaking, therefore, it become the first fully-fledge university in Nigeria since Ibadan was still at that time a university. It also became the first university established by a Nigeria Regional Government.