Labour Education and Job Security: Implications for Labour Management Relations in Private Organization

Abstract

This paper examined the relationship between Labour Education and job security and implications for Labour-management Relations in private Organization in Nigeria. This was with the view to determining the effects of staff development and job security on Industrial relations practice in Nigeria. The findings of the study showed that Labour education and job security are interrelated. Also the duo could enhance Industrial peace, stability, improved workers' morale and cordial Labour-management relations. It was further established that workers' skill development programmes are panacea to effective Collective Bargaining in private enterprise. The paper therefore provides an insight into the major ways of preventing organizational conflict and development in terms of provision of good conditions of service for the workers. It was recommended that staff development and training should be the concern and responsibility of the management in order to ensure workers commitment and effectiveness in Nigeria.



Nigerian Journal of Clinical and Counselling Psychology Vol.8(1) 2002: 103-112