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Staff Disengagement And Its Effect On The Morale Of Workers
[A CASE STUDY OF FEDERAL, RADIO CORPORATION OF NIGERIA, ENUGU]
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The
federal Radio corporation of Nigeria was formerly known as Nigeria Broad
casting corporation (NBCC) and was opened in march 28, 1955 by Sir Lan
Jacob K.B.E.C.B. who was then the Director General of the British Broad
casting corporation. Later the name was changed from Nigeria Broad
casting corporation to federal Radio corporation of Nigeria by a Degree
promulgated on February 28, 1979.
The degree took retrospective
effect from April 1, the degree has since been changed to an act of
parliament No. 8 of 1979 in consonance with the democratic presidential
system now being operated in Nigeria.
Consequent upon the provisions
of this act quoted above, the federal government of Nigeria has
established four zonal stations in Enugu Ibadan, Kaduna, Lagos including
the voice of Nigeria (VON) which though on its own but nevertheless
takes care of the external services of the corporation.
The federal
Radio Corporation of Nigeria now has its head quarters at Abuja, the
federal capital Territory of Nigeria. Also on 1st July, 2001 the Radio
Nigeria started its own FM transmission in Nigeria.
The act which
Established, the federal Radio corporation of Nigeria also stipulated
that the corporation shall amongst other things to the exclusion of any
other broadcasting authority in Nigeria be:-
i. Responsible for radio
broadcasting in short-ware or powerful medium wave for effective and
simultaneous reception in more than one state of the federation at any
one time.
ii. It shall be the duty of the corporation to provide as a public service, in the interests of Nigeria.
iii.
The corporation shall ensure that the services which it provides, when
considered as a whole, shall reflect the unity of nIgeria as a
federation and the same time give adequate expression of the cultural
characteristics and opinions of each state of the federation. A part
from its legal name of federation radio corporation of Nigeria, the
corporations national character is equally reflected in as –on-the-air
identifications name of Radio Nigeria as appellation exclusively of
Nigeria.
The structure of corporation as at present constituted, it
based on zoning of the country with emphasis on broad casting in twelve
Nigeria language viz Edo, Efik, fulfulda, Hausa, Igala, Igbo, Izon,
Kanuri, NNPe, Tio, Urhobo and Yoruba, such as to ensure that at least
85% of the population of the country are covered by their programmes in
these languages. Staff strength of about 847, 340 workers were
disengaged that is about 40% of the total work force.
Subsequently,
in December 31, 1995, out of about 400 staff, 95 were disengaged and in
March 1999 out of 300 staff about 80 workers were disengaged.
In almost all the instance of disengagement of workrs, the major reasons have been:-
a. years of service: that is some workers may have reached the retiring age and service of 60 years and 35 years respectively.
b. Inefficiency
c. Redundancy
d. Misconduct (French disloyalty etc)
e. Poor health condition
f. Over-staffing
The above reasons shall be discussed in detail in chapter 2 of this research work.
The
problems of this research work will there fore be to find out of the
above claimed reasons for disengagement of workers were the true reasons
for the exercise or not a combination of other sets of behaviour by a
worker and the criteria for selecting them.
In addition, the
researcher work will also be interest in finding out the effect of this
be interest I finding out the effect of this exercise on the remaining
workers in the corporation that is it there has been any noticeable
change in productivity and in what direction. The researchers lens will
also be focused on the effect of this exercise on the external
environment.
That is the people outside the organization, socially, economically and so on.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The project work is a survey of the effect of diengagement on the moral of workers in federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria Enugu. It tried to ascertain the extent to which disengagement of workers affects the achievement of the corporations objectives.The methodology employed to achieve the objective of the study involved the distribution of questionnaires to both senior and junior staff of the corporation under study. More so, the researcher made use of oral interviews to get more facts from th ... Continue reading---
