LABOUR INTEGRATION AND INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTIVITY OF THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN RIVERS STATE

Abstract

Several companies in manufacturing admit that it is pivotal to consider labour integration and management of human specialties in firms to stimulate productivity. The paper investigates labour integration and industrial productivity of the manufacturing sector in Rivers State. The objectives that guide this study are, to explore how the workers integration process is attributable to productivity in manufacturing companies in Rivers State, and to ascertain the ways labour integration process increases productivity in the selected manufacturing companies in Rivers State. The diffusion theory is adopted in this study, and the descriptive survey design is also applied to enable the study to elicit data purposively from 200 respondents in two manufacturing companies selected for this study. The retrieved data were analyzed in percentage and presented in tables. The findings of this paper reveal that workers integration in manufacturing companies is attributable to organization productivity, and labour integration increases productivity in organizations. Therefore, in line with the findings, the paper recommends that employers should provide workers the opportunity to be more integrated technologically in the organization to ensure regular productivity, and that management in organizations should include the productive workforce into a more lucrative renumeration in relation to entitlements accruable to key stakeholders of the organizations.