Workplace Humanization and Job Effectiveness of Business Education Graduates

Abstract

Workplace humanization deals with the issue of treating workers as human being with their own physical, mental and emotional consideration. It is a concept of rethinking over work schedules, procedures and culture to make them work better for the staff and organization. Humanization makes workers feel valued, and improves relationship. It focus on the importance of person, centred processes and not machine centred processes.  It improves on finding ways to enhance people’s sense of being active in their organization.

Onyeukwu (2021) averred that workplace humanization is a perspective of quality of work life, it have been the concern of researchers in the African economy.  The core of the concept of humanization is the value of treating the workers as human beings and emphasizing their development and involvement in decision making in the work place.  The concern of African researchers has been aroused because in Africa and particularly Nigeria, there has been no serious designed and executed study on work humanization.  This is parallel to what is obtain in the developed economies like Europe, Japan, Canada, America and Australia where conferences are organized and study groups are commissioned to study how humanized the work force is and the quality of work like in these advance countries. Growing evidence shows that the organization and nature of work are key elements in determining a worker’s physical and mental health and his behavior as a citizen. Certainly, the employee should have the right to expect a work environment that is not detrimental to his/her health and that encourages the practice of responsible citizenship. The central goal of our society, therefore should be the development of institutions of work that stimulate the creative abilities of workers: activeness, cooperativeness, interest in learning and self-development all of which will encourage positive attitudes of citizenship and spark the hope necessary to build a more just and humane society (Meyer, 2021).