Preventive Discipline and Industrial Relations Atmosphere of Electrical Engineering Service Companies, South-South, Nigeria
This study explored the relationship between preventive discipline and industrial relations atmosphere of electrical engineering service companies in South-South, Nigeria. The objective of the study was to ascertain the extent to which preventive discipline impacts on industrial relations atmosphere measures such as adversarial and harmonious industrial relations atmosphere of electrical engineering service companies in Port Harcourt. The research design for this study takes the form of a cross sectional survey research strategy and data were obtained using well-structured questionnaire from a total of 144 employees within the companies. The Cronbach alpha reliability was used in assessing the reliability of the instruments adopted in the study. The test on the hypothesis showed that there is significant negative but strong relationship between preventive discipline and adversarial industrial relations atmosphere. There is also significant positive but strong relationship between preventive discipline and harmonious industrial relations atmosphere. It was therefore concluded that as preventive discipline mechanisms are applied in the workplace, the adversarial industrial relations atmosphere is significantly reduced. Also as preventive discipline mechanisms are adopted the harmonious industrial relations atmosphere is significantly increased. The study recommends that electrical engineering service companies in south-south, Nigeria should improve on their preventive discipline techniques by helping employees to understand the need for discipline. Management should inform erring employees about the penalties for minor and major offences and give them opportunity to learn.
