Employee Relations Practices and Productivity of Supply-chain Businesses in Nigeria

This study examined the effect of employee relations practices on productivity of Supply-chain Businesses in Nigeria. The specific objectives were to: Ascertain effect of employee participation in decision making practice on organizational efficiency of Supply-chain Businesses in Nigeria and evaluate effect of employee reward practice on competitive advantage of Supply-chain Businesses in Nigeria. The research design was descriptive survey method. Study Area was South East, Nigeria. Taro Yamane sampling technique is applied to narrow down the population to a researchable size 399 respondents. The population of this study comprises of 265 registered supply chain businesses in South-East Nigeria with 6,455 total numbers of staff. Research questions of the study were answered using mean score and standard deviation while single regression was used to test hypotheses. The empirical results showed that employee participation in decision making practice has positive and significant effect organizational efficiency in Nigeria public sector (t – statistics (9.826); P – value (0.000) > Sig-value 0.05) and employee reward practice has positive and significant effect organizational competitive advantage in Nigeria public sector (t – statistics (7.908); P – value (0.000) > Sig-value 0.05). Management of Supply-chain Businesses in Nigeria should establish fair policies and practices that create equal opportunities and provide equal treatment to employees without any bias which promotes positive attitude towards organisation and work among employees.