BADEY, Paul Kadilobari
Department of Management
Faculty of Management Sciences
Rivers State University
paulbadey2016@gmail.com
KORSI, Gbarale Doonu
Department of Management
Faculty of Management Sciences
Rivers State University
korsi.gbarale@ust.edu.ng
ABSTRACT
The twenty-first century firms have multiple stakeholders with capability to influence the
aspirations, reputation and harmony or disharmony of the firms in which lie their stake holding.
The recognition of the stakeholders or lack of it may have far-reaching effects. This study
investigates the relationship between recognition as a subset of organizational climate and
industrial harmony of oil production companies in Rivers State, Nigeria. The cross-sectional
survey approach was adopted. Questionnaire was developed and copies distributed to
respondents from four oil production companies that fall under the upstream sub-sector. Validity
and reliability tests were carried out on each of the indicators of the dimensions and measures of
the major variables. A test retest method was applied to ascertain the reliability of the instrument.
Pearson product moment correlation analysis was conducted using the responses to determine the
reliability index of the instrument, with the use of SPSS version 20. 80 copies of questionnaires
distributed and 70 was retrieved and treated for further analysis. This represents 88% response
rate. The correlation analysis carried out to test hypothesis indicate strong positive relationship
between recognition and industrial harmony. The study concludes that there exists positive
relation between the recognition and industrial harmony; and recommends that multinational oil
production companies that desire industrial harmony should adopt and entrench recognition as a
part of their organizational climate. They should acknowledge, reward or mention employees
who have done well for the firm so as to enable improved communication and institute
frameworks that could good employment policies
Keywords: Employee recognition, good employment policy, improved communication,
industrial harmony