INFLUENCE OF LOCKOUT ACTION ON CREATIVITY IN MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN RIVERS STATE

Abstract

Nigeria is a nation with rich and well diversified natural resources has the potential of attracting a lot of investment into its manufacturing sector due to the important role the natural resources played as raw material for production which is the core occupation of manufacturing companies.
Despite the foregoing, Nigeria like every other nation globally is not invulnerable from uncertainty and unpredictability that emanate from continuous interactions evolving from the economic, political, socio-cultural and technological environmental factors that affect the ease of doing business particularly in the manufacturing industries. The title of this study influence of industrial conflicts and workforce productivity in manufacturing companies in Nigeria appropriately confirms the age-long fight between trade unions over wage against management in Nigerian workplaces and this battle has long been drawn, with no end in sight. The casualties are uncountable on both sides despite that gigantic effort which have been made to end this protracted chess game and battle of wits (Nduka in Jaja, 2015). On the other hand, conflict is a disagreement on which choice or decision to take. It could either be negative or positive depending on the outcome of the effect or the situation it occur. Conflict is said to be positive when it leads an employee to be creative and competitive in carrying out his mundane/official assignments of achieving the organizational goal. Conversely, a negative conflict occurs where the disagreement leads to the malfunction of the organizational processes that hampers the achievement of the organizational goal.