Implications of Emerging Occupational Values in EmployerEmployee Relations in Business Organizations in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper examines the concept of organisational behaviour and effectiveness, ethical value system in organisation’s healthy economic environment, unethical value system in organisation’s harsh economic environment among others. The objective of the paper is to examine the implications of employee’s work ethics and behaviour in a developing economy such as ours and particularly at a period of unhealthy economic climate and to determine ways of increasing employees disciplinary actions against their unethical value system. The findings of this paper revealed that the employees work ethics and behaviours in organization under harsh economic climate is not quite encouraging as they tend not to be honest, fair and transparent; lack respect and responsibility, indulge in lateness to work; absenteeism, among others which would result to disharmony or industrial crisis. The paper recommends the application of goal setting theory using management by objective (MBO) tool, immediacy in administering discipline, advance warning, among others in striving to achieve situations that will satisfy the collective needs of employees and employers in business organisation.