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| Title: | Working Conditions and Employee Commitment in Indigenous Private Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria: Managing Business Organisations for Industrial Development |
| Author: | Ukaegbu, Chikwendu Christian |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
| Volume: | 38 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 295-324 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | labour relations work environment industry enterprises Labor and Employment Economics and Trade Development and Technology |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/161653 |
| Abstract: | This study examines the relationship between working conditions and employee commitment in twenty indigenously owned private manufacturing firms in Nigeria. Data for the study were collected in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo State during six months of intensive fieldwork in 1991. The results presented in this paper are based of interviews and questionnaire data collected from workers. The findings show that these firms have the potential to contribute to the industrial future of the country. However, a substantial number of workers were dissatisfied with the extrinsic characteristics of their work, such as salaries, promotion policy, job security, training opportunities, and fringe benefits, which are stronger predictors of employee commitment than the intrinsic or responsibility factors such as a challenging job and participation in decisionmaking in the organization. The author concludes that to build a viable workforce for enterprise success and industrial development, Nigerian entrepreneurs should invest in the long-term goals of their workers, and learn to balance their own interests with those of their employees. Bibliogr., notes, sum. |
