Abstract
This article theoretically examined the effect of employment relations on employees in multinational corporations with a special focus on Dangote Cement. The article observed that labour-management relations also known as industrial relations play an imperative role in improving and sustaining employees' performance. It serves as the nerves of industrial harmony. The target population of this study, which isfinite (being defined), isthe total number ofDangote Cement Plantin Ibese, Ogun State, Nigeria. The population comprises staff whose population is two hundred and sixty (260). The use of a questionnaire was adopted to elicit information from the cross-section of the selected population. The correlation coefficient value ranges from 0 – 1 and has an acceptable value of 0.88, which indicates higher reliability of the measurement instrument and low error variance, implying that the instrument is reliable. While the analysis was done using regression analysis. The findings revealed that there is a significant influence of employee’s participation, trade union, and industrial harmony on employee performance. Organizations should encourage mutual relationships among employees, as well as provide conducive working conditions/ environment for employees, like organizational learning, effective communication among employees, which will enhance their productivity and employee's performance.
Highlights
This article theoretically examined the effect of employment relations on employees in multinational corporations with a special focus on Dangote Cement
The findings revealed that there is a significant influence of employee’s participation, trade union, and industrial harmony on employee performance
Kenee, (2014) defines a trade union as 'any combination of workers or employers whether temporarily or permanently, the purpose of which is to regulate the terms and conditions of employment of workers, whether the combination in question would or would not apart from this Decree, be unlawful because of any of its purpose being in restraint of trade, and whether its purposes do not include the provision of benefits for its workers All of the definitions above clearly show that a trade union is any group of wage earners, whether temporary or permanent, whose primary goal is to regulate the relationship between workers and management in an organization, impose restrictive conditions in the conduct of business, and provide benefits to their members
Summary
According to David (2016), collective bargaining is "the process of deciding working conditions and terms of employment through negotiation between an employer, a group of employers, or one or more representatives of a worker organization in order to reach an agreement" It is, in essence, a rule-making procedure As it can see from the many definitions, collective bargaining affects both management and pay relations, and as a result, it is critical to the development of industrial relations. This work will adopt a quantitative method of data analysis to carry out its study using a private company as its case study Another important factor that affects employee performance in a company is industrial harmony. To what extent does industrial harmony affect employee performance in an organization?
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