Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management

Abstract

Housework, where in his view, the marginalisation of women continues unabated, even with the detraditionalization of domestic labour. Gender discrimination in the workplace: The Nigerian experience was the intervention made in Chapter Twelve by the duo of Deborah Obor and Rita Okoebor, where they decried the continued discrimination of the female gender despite the availability of regulatory instruments. They x-rayed the different dimensions of workplace gender discrimination, the rationale for its continued occurrence, and suggested remedies. Related to Chapter Twelve, but now with a focus on sexual harassment in the workplace, Adefolake Ademuson, in Chapter Thirteen looks at the types of workplace sexual harassment and the conditions that sustain it. Section 2: Industrial RelationsIfeanyi Onyeonoru, Chinaegbokpa Nwakanma, and Beatrice Imue in Chapter Fourteen, set the tone for a comprehensive unpacking of the central problems in labour relations by their brilliant and incisive analysis of the challenges involved in managing industrial conflicts in Nigeria: the union -government dimension. Utilising the benefits of the open system perspective, the paper presents not only a historical overview of Industrial Relations under different epochs beginning with the voluntarist era, through guided interventions and to the post 2005 period, but also a sociological view of the causes of strike in Nigeria. In Chapter Fifteen, Eucharia Nwagbara took the reader to the importance and processes of negotiation, negotiation skills and the different strategies for dispute resolution and other workplace behaviour. It is the contention of Nwagbara that given the inevitability of conflict, negotiation, dispute resolution and workplace behaviour are the tripod around which the business of industrial relations revolves. Peter Kalejaiye and Isaiah Adisa gave a detailed historic account of the development of trade unions and the different central labour organisations, the teething problems faced by these unions in the face of complex socio-economic and political factors in Chapter Sixteen. They also argued that for unions to be more effective in prosecuting industrial actions, the two central labour organisations currently, Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress should at all times identify actively with the industrial unions in different sectors.In Chapter Seventeen, M. A. O. Aluko brought his deep knowledge and wealth of experience to discuss contextually collective bargaining in the public sector in Nigeria. Issues like government penchant for side-lining the processes and outcome of collective bargaining, defiance of several legislations and statutes, lack of political will are some of the challenges militating against collective bargaining in Nigeria.Njideka Ebisi and Ekebosi Nzubechukwu, in Chapter Eighteen, focused on industrial unrests in the private sector, with special interest in the oil and gas sector, being the mainstay of the economy given its strategic importance to national development. They highlighted the con...