LONGE, Olukayode (PhD)
Department of Management and Accounting,
Lead City University, Ibadan
Corresponding Author.
longe.olukayode@lcu.edu.ng, Premiumkay@gmail.com
Abstract
This study is an extensive analysis of the interplay of nexus between industrial relations and its
exceptional outcrop of industrial harmony within the prism of goal accomplishment in Nigerian work
places. The blended communion of both constructs transmuting into harmonious industrial relations
strengthens mutual relationship to ensure peaceful work intimacy between labour and management in
reducing any organisational dysfunctions. The paper was guided by the theoretical synthesis of pluralist
theory. From the extant literature, the paper contends that the cultivation of harmonious industrial
relations offers both employees and management the chance to identify with one another, display high
opinions of each other and also generate a workable approach of running the affairs of organisations to
facilitate effective use of human and material resources for the achievement of corporate goals. However,
the realization of these goals requires effective planning, efficient deployment of resources and mutual
cooperation of all organisational members. In organisations where work- relation problems are amicably
resolved, employees have their voices added to management processes, and interact with cordiality to
induce harmonious industrial relations, makes optimization of corporate goal realizable. Harmonious
industrial relations connect the work place to its mission and stimulates a conducive work environment
for better organisational functionality. The paper concludes that organisations economically and
optimally achieve their set goals when both employees and management increase jointly their capacity
for cooperative attitude and accepts each other as partners in progress to reduce workplace disruption to
actualize goal accomplishment in the work place in an emergent economy like Nigeria.
keywords: employee, goal accomplishment, harmonious industrial relations, industrial harmony and
industrial relations.