CONFLICT AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN PUBLIC SECTOR A CASE OF FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC NEKEDE, OWERRI

CHAPTER ONE

• INTRODUCTION

1.1  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Since, Federal Polytechnic Nekede are working hand in hand to form a reasonable public sector. They have initiation and substance of peaceful and purposeful labour management relations which involve applying machinery dealing with complaints, grievance and disputes in a public sector.

In Federal Polytechnic Nekede, public sector deals with everything that affects the relationship between workers and employers, perhaps from the time the employee join the work in Federal Polytechnic Nekede is a corporate organisation, therefore in real terms, the institution is the regulation of employment relations by the employers management or their organisation, the workers organization and the third party private and/or government acting as an umpire of a controller, the purpose of which is joint decision making for co-operation of manpower resources for the attainment of organizational objectives of enterprise.

Federal Polytechnic Nekede public sector is the one that include the study of trade unions; management or employers association and the public bodies concerned with the regulation in Federal Polytechnic Nekede have their own power of authority and invested interest. The also have conflict resolution and collective bargaining in solving problems between management and the workers. The organizational union in Federal Polytechnic Nekede is made up of Academic staff Union (ASUP), No Academic staff union (NASU) and senior staff association of Nigeria institution of polytechnic (SSANIP)

The Federal Polytechnic Nekede was initially established as the college of technology, Owerri by edit No. 1 dated 1^st April 1987. it was situated at the government technical college (GTC), Owerri premises along Egbu road Owerri. In 1987 it was renamed, the polytechnic Nekede by the Imo State Government.

The institution was taken over in April 1993 by the Federal government of Nigeria and it is now governed by the federal polytechnic Act.

The rector is seen as the chief executive of the institution with other principal officers who are two deputy rectors, the registrar, the bursar and the librarian etc.

• STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

According to Okpara (1984:36) conflict is an inevitable out growth of functional inter-dependent and scarcity of resource modern organisation.

Conflict can not eliminate since Federal Polytechnic Nekede Owerri is an organisation and is modern organisation, conflict is inevitable in it. This co-operation is owned by Federal Government where the base of politics reigns, they indulge in constant change of area, and once your own person is no longer in political sit another person takes over your position immediately.Conflict existing in various offices. The made external and internal problems of organization get unsolved such as:

• Problem of incompetence person who were place in the name of having God father without knowledge and full experience of the job. Problem of embezzlement of fund, there by creating inadequacy in fund management. Also, problem of manipulation power and change of area manager which has resulted to recruitment of incompetent person as the areas of manager. Therefore incompetence is a balmier which stipulate and stimulate conflict in Owerri as a branch

• OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The purpose of this study is to examine conflict and its resolution on Federal Polytechnic Nekede Owerri Territory

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