Course Description

Rationale:

An organization that is geared to continually deliver increasing performance of all its factors is an organization that is primed for continuous effectiveness. Since Organizations are set specifically with certain pre-determined objectives, all its activities and operations ought to be directed at their attainment. It is in this attainment that organizational success and survival is defined. An effective organization is therefore an organization that is continually generating improved performance of all the elements that are both endogenous and exogenous to it. These are all the factors that are available to the organization for the fulfilment of its operational objectives.  Its ability to master, harness and deploy its dynamics towards the organizational vision shapes overall organizational outcome thus future.

Trade Unions and its leadership play key roles in ensuring that organizational performance is continually improving thus enhancing the effectiveness of the organizations concerned. With the right kind of leadership, trade unions become critical agents to organizational effectiveness and success. This is a function of the fact that trade unions are in control of the workforce which is critical to organizational performance. If the workforce is therefore led creatively with a high-performance attitude, the organization becomes more effective with increasing productivity that guarantees continuous organizational success.

Leadership experience is a path which is filled with visions, missions, objectives and how to mobilize and deploy the various resources immediately and remotely available to the leader towards accomplishing several tasks which translates into the attainment of the whole aims and objectives of the organization.

Trade unions especially its leadership must therefore understand the criticality of its place in the nexus of increasing workplace productivity or Performance, workplace effectiveness and workplace bottom-line; a plank upon which its sustainability is built.

Course Objective:

At the end of the course, participants will be able to;

• Recognize the roles and responsibilities of trade union leadership
• Appreciate the roles of trade union management
• State the responsibilities of trade union members
• Know the hierarchy of trade unions
• Understand the structure of trade union
• Know the scope of Trade Union
• Be exposed to the types of trade union
• Explain the characteristics of trade union
• Know management rights and employee prerogative

Course Content:

• Leadership Personality: Its impact on trade union as key Human behaviour in organization
• Trade Unionism: challenges and prospects
• Trade Union Development, functions and structure
• Modern trade unions, current challenges and strategies for survival
• Strategies for Evolving and Promoting Trade Union Values and Policies
• Aligning Trade Unions’ objectives with organizational objectives
• The Trade Unions and the Society: Building a positive symbiosis
• Strategic Leadership and Planning in trade union organizations
• Workplace Conflict: Causes, Costs and Management
• Enforcing Negotiated Workplace Agreements: Issues and challenges
• Roles and Responsibilities of Trade Union Leadership
• Hierarchy of Trade Unions
• Structure of Trade Union
• Nature and Scope of Trade Union
• Objectives of trade unions.
  • Negotiation
  • Representation
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Member services
  • Nigerian Labour Law
  • Representing Body
  • Information and Advice
  • Member Service
  • Voice in decision affecting Workers
• Types of Trade Union
• Characteristic of Trade Union
• Functions of Trade Unions
  • Trade Union as partners in progress
  • Fraternal Function
  • Other Functions
  • The service functions
  • The representative function
  • The regulatory function
  • The government and public administration function

Target Audience:

Employee Relations Managers, newly inducted union members, Human Resource Managers, and Union Leadership

Delivery Method:

Lectures, discussions, syndicate work, case studies, role – play and group exercises. Audio – Visual aids will be used to reinforce these training and learning methods.

Course Venue:  

Course Fee:  

Course Duration: 2 Weeks

Course Date:  September 18th-22th, 2023