ABSTRACT
This project work is
conducted as part of the requirement for the award of a national diploma in
business administration the aim of this research work is to find out the
effects of retrenchment of workers especially on haul it has affected their
moral that is the still employed workforce whether their moral is low. If they
feel threatened or it they have become moor productive. The research is centred
on the institute of management and technology Enugu and the entire work is
divided into three chapters
Chapter one deeds with
the problem of study the purpose and it’s significance.
Chapter two deeds with
related literature on the retrenchment issues what different authors said on
the causes and consequences of the exercise and ways to solving the problem of
retrenchment and also it’s applicability to Nigeria situation
Finally, chapter three
contains the summary of the findings and conclusion of the study
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
General Background
1.2
Problem associated with retrenchment
1.3
Problem the study will be concerned with
1.4
The importance of studying the area
1.5
Definition of importance term
1.6
References
CHAPETR TWO
2.1
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 The
origin of the subject area
2.2 School
of thoughts within the subject area
2.3 School
of thoughts relevant to the problem of study
2.4 Different
methods of studying the problem
2.5 Summary
2.6 References
CHAPTER THREE
3.0
Conclusion
3.1
Data presentation
3.2
Data analysis
3.3
Recommendation
3.4
Conclusion
3.5
References
Bibliography
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
GENERAL BACKGROUND
The background of
this study is on the institute of management and technology Enugu state made-up
of students academic staff (lecturers) and non-Academic staff. It aimed
et finding the affect on the moral is still low or if they feel threatened and
if they have biome productive this research work was prompted by the way how
workers have been retrenched for the past years in institutes of higher
learning. Human beings have often been accused or being crazy and having
poor attitude to works as shown in mcgregregors assumption of theory of x. in
this theory Mcgregors assumed that the average human being does not like
working and would went to or avoid it if possible as a result be would have to
be controlled threatened with punishment before he can put in effort to achieve
some organizational objective. Mcgregor went on to say that a human being
wishes to be directed and controlled in his new ambitions and above all he
wants security. This research work would want to find out if the above
claimed reasons for retrenchment of workers were true reasons for these actions
or in Mcgregors assumption (ie. Laziness and poor attitude to the two set of
behaviour led to the retrenchment of worker in the institute of management and
technology Enugu
Moreover, people who were
affected by the mass page of workers have resorted to a number of way for
survived some who are opportune to have cars turned into taxi drivers others
beg for aims along the roads while others turned to petty treading. In
summary this work sets out to find out why retrenchment is being embarked upon
who is being retrenched among the workers and the eriterial for
selecting them.
The research work will
also be interested in finding out the affect this exercise has had on the
remaining staff that is has there been any noticeable change in productivity
and in what direction government on their own one trying to decrease the
workforce in government parastatals in order to control excess of workers this
wages and status in order to channel such funds to other activities
1.2 PROBLEM
ASSOCIATED WITH RETRENCHMENT
The efficiency of
running an organizaiton or establishment is determined by the workforce.
In recent times workers have been undergoing the dilemma of retrenchment.
The retrenchment exercise currently taking place in Nigeria poses economic and
social problems.
Retrenchment is defined
as dismissed or fermentation of workers when the job cases to exist usually as
a result of technological or economic recession or change. It can also be
seen an act to cut down on expenses of it can also be said as when a workers is
subjected to compulsory retirement or forceful removal from his/her designation
or work. It stated in Nigeria as a result of economic recession in the early
80’s. The world has been going through a recession but Nigerian case has
been a very peculiar situation because it has resulted in many people losing
their job it can be seen in an editorial “Agony of retrenchment” from the
personnel office of the institute of management and technology (February 11th 1989)
a state owned institute of higher learning about 420 workers were retrenched
out of the original, 1,224 before the exercise that is about 40% of the
workforce. A lot of factor have brought about the issue of retrenchment of
workers in organization and one of such factors include the creation
of state this is a situation where as a result of a creation of new
state, workers (non-indigenes) who are part of the workforce are subjected to
compulsory removal from their post or position in the civil service. This
normally has an adverse effect on the individual workers because the number of
years that has being put into service and others achievements attained during
the period of service is not into consideration thereby leaving the workers the
workers in a state of joblessness.
Although on the other
hand retrenchment in this case is said to allow for people who are indigenes of
a particular area to enjoy form the civil services.
Another reason for the
high level retrenchment rate could be attributed to gross insubordination on
the part of the workers in relation to constituted authority hence, a typical
example of this is stated in section 27 of the institute of management and
technology Enugu (IMT) edict No 2 which is involved when there is an issue of
gross insubordination when a staff and the constituted authority or absconding
from duty this edict No2 of IMT section 27 states that.
i.
The council shall have to remove form office on grounds of public interest or
institutes interest reason of reorganization any member of the academic or
non-academic senior staff.
ii.
In this and the next two succeeding sections it expression removal from office”
induces termination of appointment and dismissal from office of a person within
the contemplation those sections.
Lastly in most all the
instances of retrenchment of workers the major reasons have been.
a.
Years of service that is sons employees have been put in more year of service than
others.
b.
Inefficiently
c.
Fraud and disloyalty on the past of workers
d.
Poor health
1.3 PROBLEM
THAT THE STUDY WILL BE CONCERNED WITH
Retrenchment of worker
in an event currently taking mace throughout he country. It has reached its
height since the military government came into power. It is the aim of
this study therefore to find out the effects this exercise has had on the morale
of the still employed workers.
a.
What the workers think about retrenchment exercise.
b.
How retrenchment affects their productivity and attitude of work that is if the
exercise has made them work harder because they are scared of losing their jobs
too to do they feed directed from their jobs.
c.
Reasons for retrenchment of workers and the criteria for selecting
who is to go.
d.
Social consequence of retrenchment of worker in pursuance of this research work
the researcher considers it necessary to pose some research questions those
research questions are based on the objective of the study.
e.
How is retrenchment exercise affecting the workers as an individual?
f.
How exactly does retrenchment affect productivity and workers attitude of
work. Has it made them to feel delineated from their jobs.
g.
What are the reason for the retrenchment of workers and the criteria for
selecting who is to go? And what alternative the management would have been
preferred to take?
h.
What are the possible consequences of retrenchment furthermore in the past
years retrenchment of workers has been the order of the day. It has reached a
crisis situation since the military took over the government the serious nature
of this exercise has made the executive of the Nigeria labour congress (NLC) to
cry out on behalf of their members to the government both federal and state to
stop further retrenchment of workers because of very hard conditions it is
subjecting their member. It is in the light of the above situation that
this research is being carried out hoping that through the result the true
effect on the retrenchment would be know.
Therefore, where
retrenchment is done on the basis of efficiency the works would emphasize the
fact that employees do not always retrenchment just to save cost or to meet up
with recession but the efficiency on the past of employee is rewarding.
However it is hoped that
the research paper would be of help to others who would want to explore on the
area more.
Finally, the problems
concerned to retrenchment study are the scope and limitations covered by the
researcher which was only limited within the institute of management and
technology Enugu. The efforts made by the researcher to produce a good
thesis was met by certain limitations which include:
1. Scarce
literature review: For a research topic
to be adequately treated it requires sufficient theoretical framework.
Literature peculiar to retrenchment is scanty and therefore the researcher had
no alternative but to use magazine articles textbook for reviewing retrenchment
issue. Also the area of coverage is from the personnel department of the
institute of management and technology Enugu.
2. Finance:
No research work can go well without enough fund go because of limited fund
available to the researcher the work has to be limited to institute of
management and technology Enugu.
3. Time:
Due to time constraints the researcher had to strike a balance between other
school curricula and the research work. The school session started late for the
1999/2000 school years which is due to incessant strike actions
embarked the short period.
4. Literacy
level:
Another problem encountered by the researcher is level of literacy of the
average Nigeria worker because most Nigeria civil servants are not graduates
and they are unappreciative of the usefulness of a research work they have the
impression that the unversity student and lectures are always wasting their
time on research that are never used by
anybody.
1.4
THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING THE AREA
In pursuance of this research work the
researcher considers it necessary to see why it is necessary to carry out
research on this problem.
a. How
retrenchment exercise is affecting the workers as am individual
b. How
exactly retrenchment affects productivity and workers attitude to work. Whether
retrenchment has made them work harder or if it has made them feed alienated
from their jobs
c. The
reasons for the retrenchment and the criteria for selecting who is to go.
And what alterative action the management would take.
1.5 DEFINITION
OF IMPORTANT TERMS
1. Retrenchment: It
can be said as the reduction or cutting down the amount of workers form
services who are causing out lay. It also the termination or dismissed of
workers from their job as a result of technological or economic recession or
change.
2. Employer: One
who keeps person in one’s service either for remuneration
3. Economic
recession: This is the recede of economy form its previous
position to a lower level i.e the fall of the economy from a better or higher
level to a lower level and which may cause inflation or deflation of demand and
supply commodities.
4. Employee: This
is a face-to-face interaction between employer and employee in an organizaiton.
5. Moral: This
is a process on how an employee is discipline in an organization based on the
there behaviour or character
6. Workers: This
is a group of people performing operation
Department | Business Administration and Management |
Project ID Code | BAM0166 |
Chapters | 3 Chapters |
No of Pages | 51 pages |
Reference | YES |
Format | Microsoft Word |
Price | ₦4000, $15 |
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