Course Description

Rationale:

The Performance of organizational factors is critical to organizational effectiveness and success. Its character, its nature and its depth largely determines organizational bottom-line. This hugely defines the capacity of the organization to meet shareholders’ expectations and continue as a surviving and enduring entity into the future. 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.

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.

Experience has however shown that the critical variable towards pushing such organizations’ to attain its objectives through its set targets is the character and depth of leadership including trade union leadership available within its matrix. Human capacity has become so critical that sometimes it becomes the singular factor that drives the wheels of such organization. Leadership most of the times becomes the difference between a high flying organization and an average or a dying one.

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;

• Create awareness amongst key workplace elements of the criticality of workplace relations to organizational performance and effectiveness
• Enhance understanding of the trade unions of its place in ensuring organizational survival
• Inculcate in the Participants the connection between High performance and Organizational success
• Create better understanding of workplace relations
• Inculcate in the participants their diverse roles in maintaining workplace performance & effectiveness
• Create an understanding of the factors that shape workplace attitudes and behavior
• Evolve strategies for workplace relations
• Demonstrate to participants the nexus between their actions and organizational success
• Change attitudes and perceptions amongst social partners within organizations for organizational performance and effectiveness
• Quicken organizations to take steps to harness the synergy that is the outcome of interactions within their organizations
• Build a more collaborative workplace between management and trade Union
• Get the social partners in the workplace to understand the need to act together effectively in the workplace.
• Create a continuous cycle of workplace harmony
• Ensure that the workplace conflict is reduced

Course Outline:

• Trade Union Functions, objectives and Structure
• Role of trade union leadership in workplace productivity
• Leadership role in building high performance organizations
• The Concept of High Performance
• The challenges of improving workplace Performance: Solutions
• The Purpose of an Organization: An understanding
• Organizational behavior and factors influencing people at work
• The Effective Trade Union Leader
• Role of Trade Union leadership in Industrial harmony
• Trade Union Strategies and Tactics for industrial harmony and productivity
• Effective Collective Bargaining for Industrial peace
• Workplace collaboration between Management and Trade Union
• Roles of Trade Unions as Change Agents in the Workplace
• Organizational Stakeholders’ Expectations and the trade union leadership

Target Audience:

Trade Union Leadership, Human resource Managers, Employee Relations Managers and Union Members in both Public and Private Sectors

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.

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Course Fee:  

Course Duration: 1 Week

Course Date: July 17th -21st, 2023