CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Social business and industrial organizations have become very complex. This complexity ranges from the nature, sources and utilization of financial, human and material resources. Rapid operational and technical policy changes to increase professionalization of management, unionizing of labour and growing unpredictability of clientele. There is therefore an increasing need for effective management in the workplace.
It has therefore become necessary for both management and labour as separate bodies to understand the nature, uses, control and application of managerial strategies and techniques to attain and maintain efficiency in the organization and some level of prestige in the society.
Since Edo State Library Board is one of the government parastatals and also a unit of employment in the economy, it is therefore a good example in areas such as employment policies, staff behaviours or practices and labour management. It should therefore be clear to State that it is one of the employer of labour that provide a good condition of service to its employees and of most importance, it is an organization where staff or workers and management relations has direct bearing on job performance and productivity. Good staff and management relations encourages organizational harmony, foreign investment, high workers morale, high productivity and peaceful atmosphere to settle conflict if there is any and better human relations.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
In view of the unhealthy industrial relations, incessant disputes in the organization that is being necessitated by the lack of sufficient understanding of the views of the different parties involved, it could rightly be asserted that the significance technological and financial problems resulting to lack of working materials in the modern libraries are great but none of these is more challenging than the complexity of understanding people, their needs as relating to them in wages that could lead to successful achievement of organizational objectives.
This study therefore focuses on the extent to which staff management relations influences the job performance in the Edo State Library Board of Edo State, Nigeria.