Workplace Democracy and Industrial Harmony in Nigeria

Evidences abound on the frequency in workplace disruption extremed, in strikes due to the breakdown of management-worker relations in Nigeria. This study seeks to unravel the immediate causes of this workplace social distance.  In an effort to provide the antidote for workplace cooperation, selected manufacturing firms in Port Harcourt Nigeria were studied. The study revealed that there is a high prevalence of tall structured organization which creates a gap between labour and management, thus mutual cooperation seemed not to be existing. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used in gathering and analyzing the data and recommendations were obvious that some mutual conditions among which due process, voting and collective bargaining are palliative agents capable of reducing the evident relationship strain between labour and management which have frequently resulted in strikes as the extremes.