Employment Relations & Human Resource Management- Scholarly Publications

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    COVID-19 in Nigeria: Impact on work and workers
    (UNILAG Journal of Business, 2021-05-08) Gbajumo-Sheriff, M; Sogunro, A; Elegbede, T; Udobi-Owoloja, P
    The Coronavirus disease, officially called COVID-19 is infecting people all around the World, with over 2% death. The virus which spreads through respiratory means from human-to-human and its negative impact on the health of humans is still been understood by scientists. COVID-19 is changing different spheres of our lives; social, economic and cultural. It is also transforming how, where and when work is done. Like many other countries, Nigeria is experiencing its own part of the change in the workspace, within the family and in the society. The study investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on work, working and family. This paper adopted a theoretical approach by presenting secondary data available on COVID-19 that improves readers’ understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on work. This paper relied majorly on secondary data collected at 4 different times (April/May, June, July and August 2020) through the COVID-19 National Longitudinal Phone survey (COVID-19 NLPS), which was launched by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) with the support of the World Bank to provide information on the impact of the pandemic. The COVID-19 experience on work and family has been overwhelming, coming with its gains and pains. The epidemic outbreak has brought to the fore the need for government to put structures in place to encourage organizations adopt flexible working. Additionally, government should over time develop a framework that supports working people with family responsibilities, both financially (public income support and child allowances) and non-financial (parental leave, creche and other childcare support facilities) means.
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    Human Resource Management Practices in Nigeria
    (2011) Fajana, S; Owoyemi, O; Elegbede, T; Gbajumo-Sheriff, M
    The globalization of business is having a significant impact on human resource management practices; and it is has now become more imperative than ever for business organizations to engage in human resource management practices on an international standard. While the management of people is mostly associated with HRM, the definition, parameter and context are contested by different writers. Some authors such as Kane (1996) argued that HRM is in its infancy, while other authors such as Welbourne and Andrews (1996) dispute it. However, other writers have attempted to differentiate between personnel management and HRM (Sisson, 1990), by emphasizing on the strategic approach to managing people. Other writers such as Legge (1995) have focused on the soft and hard approach to managing human resources. All these distinctions have contributed to the fundamental differences in understanding and defining human resource management practices, and therefore, HRM should not be incorporated within a single model, but rather adequate emphasis should be on understanding human resource management issues, which will assists practitioners, authors, mangers and organizations in developing and implementing HRM policies and practices that will be productive and that can make businesses to gain and sustain a competitive advantage. This is paper is aimed at exploring HRM practices in Nigeria.