University Organizational Communication Climate and Management of Industrialconflict

Abstract

This study examined the influence of university organization communication climate and industrial conflict in selected state universities in Nigeria. The study adopted the survey research design of the expost facto. A total of 250 participants across three state owned universities were selected through proportionate stratified random sampling. Two instruments namely: Organizational communication climate scale (OCCS) (r=0.44) and Industrial conflict management scale (ICMS) (r=0.82) were used for data collection. The only one hypothesis developed to pilot the study was tested at 0.05 level of confidence. Pearson Product Moment Correlation was the statistical tool applied for the analysis of data for the study. The findings of the study showed that Communication climate accounted for 58.0% of the total variance in industrial conflict management.Organizational communication climate variables influenced industrial conflict management in selected state owned universities in southwestern Nigeria. Therefore, governments, university administrators, union leaders and members; and other stakeholders should be more proactive in ensuring that positive organizational communication climate is created to foster management of conflict in universities.

Keywords: Universityorganizational communication climate, industrial conflict management