Business Excellence, Vol. 17 No. 2, 2023.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.22598/pi-be/2023.17.2.11
OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM SELECTED MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATIONS IN LAGOS METROPOLIS, NIGERIA
Babalola Oluwayemi Oginni
orcid.org/0000-0002-5248-6837
; Department of Human Resource Development, Faculty of Management Sciences, Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun state, Nigeria
Olusegun Abel Adesanya
; Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, Lagos State University of Science and Technology, Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria
Gbenga Ezekiel Ilori
; Department of Business Administration, Distance learning Institute, University of Lagos, Akoka-Yaba, Lagos State, Nigeria
Isola Olalekan Ayantunji
; Department of Human Resource Development, Faculty of Management Sciences, Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun state, Nigeria
Folakemi Olubunmi Lanre-Babalola
; of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun state, Nigeria
Kolawole Sunday Ajibola
; Department of Human Resource Development, Faculty of Management Sciences, Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun state, Nigeria
Abstract
Purpose: The study investigated the relationship between occupational stress
and industrial relations outcomes using the manufacturing organizations in Lagos
Metropolis as the unit of analysis. The study identified two dimensions of occupational
stress (psychological and physiological stress) and four industrial relations outcomes (quit, absenteeism, industrial actions, and management-employee relations).
Methodology: The study made use of multi-sampling techniques for the preservation of
the characteristics and status of the respondents and the research questionnaire was
administered randomly to the selected sample size of 363 respondents. Findings and
implications: It was found that there exists a positive and significant relationship between
and among all the variables of occupational stress and industrial relations outcomes with
absenteeism as the potent force. It was concluded that occupational stress is dominant
and permanent in the selected manufacturing organizations and manifested in the form
of absenteeism. Limitations: The study concentrated on the Lagos Metropolis, but further
studies can look farther into other geopolitical zones in Nigeria to further expand the
frontier of knowledge in the area of study. Originality: The study provides a more
comprehensive understanding of occupational stress dimensions on industrial relations
outcomes, thus, expanding the existing literature in the area of study.
Keywords
occupational stress; physiological stress; psychological stress; industrial relations outcomes; absenteeism.
Hrčak ID:
311069
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Publication date:
11.12.2023.
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