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The Effect Of Health And Safety On Employee’s Productivity
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1.6 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY
The
research would be great significance to WAPCO NIGERIA PLC as an
organization and the nation at large, in order to improve their
employee’s health and safety standards and as such reduce their cost.
Also recommendation would be made on ways in which the employers,
government, trade union could jointly make effort to promote health and
safety in WAPCO NIGERIA PPLC thereby acting as a catalyst to influence
other industries and generally improving the whole nation if this
research is successfully carried out.
The study would further
assist in showing how the various acts enacted are useful and should be
implemented. If the study is accepted and appreciated, it could be
significance to the nation as well.
1.7 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The
researcher intends concentrating this research on the corporate
activities of WAPCO NIGERIA PLC as regards the occupational health and
safety measures put in place to ensure employees job satisfaction and
organizational productivity, thereby maintaining the lead in the
promoting of health and safety of employees in Nigeria.
1.8 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The
nature of this research study necessitates the use of both primary and
secondary data. A maximum of 60 questionnaires shall be administered to
both top and junior workers in WAPCO PLC and (Placeholder) primary data
based on these questionnaire reports, periodicals, magazines and many
other publications shall be used for the collection of the second data.
The
interpretation of these collected data shall be done by adopting the
simple percentage methods, tables, graphs and charts shall be drawn and
the chi-square method shall be used in the final analysis of data with
the aid of the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS).
The
survey method would be used to carry out research on this project. This
method has been chosen because majority of correspondents would be
selected from educated and presumably knowledgeable people in the field
of occupational health and safety.
1.9 DEFINITION OF TERMS
i.
ACCIDENT: A sudden and unexpected event that cause injury or damage.
Also means any unplanned and controlled event which results in damage
whether through injury or disease to an employee, plant and equipment.
ii. EMPLOYEE: Anyone who works for wages or salaries in the service of an employer.
iii. HAZARDS: Is a source of risk that could result in damage or loss.
iv. HEALTH: A state of being hale, sound or whole in body, mind and soul, that is from physical diseases or pain.
v.
JOB SATISFACTION: Is the feeling of contentment that an employee have
over the achievement gotten from work, for which the employee receives
regular payments.
vi. LABOUR TURNOVER: This is the cause and
effect of employment apart from being a measure of the moral and
efficiency or otherwise of workers (Indian Labour Statistic) (1962)
Also
means the number of workers hired to replace those who have left during
a period of time, that is the ratio of those who left to the average
number of workers employed.
vii. MOTIVATION: It is the
willingness to work, it is the drive and stimulation that enables
individuals to perform, it is a fuel that drives you to perform a
particular task.
viii. UNEMPLOYMENT: A state idleness experienced
by personnel who as members of the labour force perceive themselves,
and are perceived by others as capable to work.
ix.
PRODUCTIVITY: Is the ratio or proportion of output of the commodity to
the factors of production. According to “Mayadeo and Karmarker†may be
defined “as the ratio between the production of a given measured by
volume and one and more corresponding input factors also measured by
volumeâ€
x. ORGANIZATION: A group of people who come together
to form a business in other to achieve a particular aim or objectives.
xi.
SAFETY: This is the condition of being safe; it improves freedom from
danger and hazards or keeping of oneself or other safe especially from
danger of accident or diseases.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The title on this research work is “the effect of health and safety on employee’s productivity using Cadbury Nigeria Plc as a case study. The main aim is to make research if indeed health and safety measures can be regarded as a major contributor to the growth and development of any organization. The research work is also serves as a means to identify the variables that are controllable by management which to certain degree have a direct impact on the performance.The sources of data ... Continue reading---
