CONFERENCE RATIONALE

Harmonious industrial relations refer to an industrial environment where workers along with their union and management understand and accept each other as partners in progress; a cooperative attitude is mutually beneficial in terms of output, performance, and rewards.

Industrial harmony enhances labor productivity as one of the critical means of improving performance in all sectors, achieving economic growth, and enhancing living standards and quality of life. It creates a peaceful working environment that is attractive to tolerance, dialogue, and other alternative means of resolving industrial or labor disputes.

This conference will discuss the imperative of industrial harmony for higher productivity in Nigeria.

Conference Objectives

By the end of this Conference, participants will learn to:

• Acquire professional knowledge, skills, and applications of Industrial Relations
• Understand the Industrial Relations environment
• Identify emerging areas of industrial relations
• Have a response mechanism to respond speedily to industrial relation challenges in the organization
• Create the best compensation and good working conditions for the employees
• Have proactive industrial relations approaches.

Conference Content:

• Overview of industrial relations practices
• Principles and practices of good industrial relations
• Key players in industrial relations
• How to develop excellent industrial relations with all employees
• Payment of fair and reasonable wages
• Negotiations and collective bargaining strategies
• Developing a proper communication system between employer and employees.
• Policy on employees to keep pace with technological, social, and economic changes.
• Effective Conflict and grievance handling
• How to create an excellent relation with trade union
• Industrial relations act and labor laws
• Steps involved in termination of an employment relationship
• How to provide satisfactory working conditions for employees

Target Group: Senior & Middle Managers, Administrators, Supervisors, Industrial Relations Managers/Officers, Line Managers, Staff working in Human Resources, and Trade Union Officials. Others can attend and will benefit immensely from the Conference.

ACCOMMODATION: 

This Conference is non-residential. Participants are to lodge in hotels of their choice near the conference centre. A list of these Hotels will be provided on request.