Assessment of Employee Relation Practice (In Case of National Tobacco Enterprise (Ethiopia) S.C)
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2014-05
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Addis Ababa University
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This research work is designed to assess employee relation practices of National Tobacco
Enterprise (Ethiopia) Share Company. 248 employee and management members are selected
using cross sectional sampling methods. In this research with the objective of assessing
employee relation practice the following questions are raised: existence policy and
procedure to guide the practice, Major employee relation issue that affect employee relation,
how conflicts are resolved, how does the tripartite agreement help in resolving conflict. To
gather information for the study questionnaires with close and open ended are used.
Accordingly, a total of 248 questionnaires were distributed both to the management and
employees and interview was conducted with six top management members (Department
managers and service heads) and four labor union representatives (Labor union head and
other executive committee members) the data collected were analyzed using SPSS software.
On the basis of the data obtained from the respondents, the study identified: the enterprise
has employee relation polices and procedure and the enterprise has also place importance to
employee relation issue, employee relation issues like health and safety, learning &
development, fair and just treatment and financial benefit are found to be very important for
employees, the enterprise also has good employee relation practice. The study also identified
existence of tripartite agreement in the enterprise that manifested by respecting and
understanding the concern of each parties and maintaining honesty and openness among
both employer and employee and trade union. In light of the findings, the following
recommendations were forwarded. The enterprise need to enhance key employees relation
issues related to health and safety, financial benefit, trust and confidence, learning and
development; NTE need to prepare implementation strategies for effectively putting in to
practice those employee relation issue which causes conflict and also for enhancing issue
which strength the employee relation practice; the enterprise need to create awareness as to
the importance of tripartite relationship and need to build trust of employee and labor union.
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National Tobacco Enterprise