Collective Bargaining Strategy and Industrial Harmony of Ministries, Departments and Agencies in Bayelsa State: The Issue of Compromise and Collaboration as Correlates

  • John Mark Faculty of Management Sciences, Department Of Management, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
  • Atasi, Doubara Faculty of Management Sciences, Department Of Management, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Keywords: Industrial Harmony, ective Bargaining collaboration strategy, compromise strategy

Abstract

The study examined the relationship between collective bargaining strategies and industrial harmony in Bayelsa state civil service, Nigeria. Collaboration and compromise strategies were used as the empirical referent of collective bargaining while industrial democracy, joint consultation, absence of frequent grievance and absence of incessant strike were used as measures of industrial harmony. Organizational culture was used as the moderating variable for the study. The researchers collected data on micro level unit of analysis using a five point likert scale questionnaire titled: collective bargaining strategy and industrial harmony questionnaire”. The questionnaire was validated via face validity, content validity and construct validity while cronbach alpha was used to test for reliability. The data collected was analyzed at different levels. For innate level data, descriptive analytical tools precisely frequency tables supported with charts were used for analyzing the demographic characteristics of the samples while for secondary data analysis, descriptive statistics was employed for univariate analyses of the data and for tertiary level data, inferential statistical tool, i.e. Pearson product moment coefficient of correlation was used to test the relationship between collective bargaining strategies and industrial harmony while partial correlation was used to test for the presence of moderating influence of organizational culture on the association between collective bargaining strategies and industrial harmony. These analyses were conducted using a computer software package, statistical package for social sciences version 22.0 and Microsoft excel.

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Published
2022-03-15
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Mark, J., & Doubara, A. (2022). Collective Bargaining Strategy and Industrial Harmony of Ministries, Departments and Agencies in Bayelsa State: The Issue of Compromise and Collaboration as Correlates. Central Asian Journal of Innovations on Tourism Management and Finance, 3(3), 21-23. Retrieved from https://cajitmf.centralasianstudies.org/index.php/CAJITMF/article/view/209
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