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48. Psycho-Social factors as correlates of rate of patients' recovery from physical illness in
selected State-owned hospitals in Oyo State.
49. Conflict management within the Nigerian Baptist Convention: 1984-1994
50. A multivariate approach towards improving workers welfare for achieving increased productivity in
some selected industries in Ondo State.
51. Retention and failure in distance education: The experience of the National Teachers' Institute (NTI),
Kaduna.
52 A study of worker alienation in selected establishments in Ibadan.
53. The study set out to examine the concept of alienation as it affects workers in selected work
establishments in Ibadan, Nigeria.
54. Socio-Economic factors and the terminal examination performance of extra-mural students of
Ibadan Varsity.
55. Multilaterial bargaining approach towards effective dispute resolution in the public sector: The
experience of Federal Universities in Nigeria, 1990-1996.
   
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TITLE: Psycho-Social factors as correlates of rate of patients' recovery from physical illness in
selected State-owned hospitals in Oyo State.
AUTHOR: JACOB KEHINDE MOJOYINOLA
R.N., B.SC. (HONS) PSYCHOLOGY (IBADAN)
M.ED. SOCIAL WELFARE (IBADAN)
  ABSTRACT
  The study examined how some psycho-social factors are correlated with rate of patients’ recovery from physical illness. It aimed at finding out whether the characteristics of the patients, emotional feelings, response of patients to hospitalization, expectations about outcomes of medical treatments, and social support were related to rate of patients’ recovery physical illness. Correlational research design was adopted for the study.
   
  A total of two hundred physically-ill patients randomly selected from the state-owned hospitals in Oyo State constituted the sample for the study. Three instruments were used, namely, the structured interview, nurse’s evaluation questionnaire, and medical/nursing records.
   
  The research hypotheses were tested for significance at 0.05 level of confidence.
Findings from the study established that patients’ characteristics, feelings of happiness, depression, response of patients to hospitalization, and dispositional optimism were positively correlated with rate of patients’ recovery from physical illness. However, feelings of anxiety and social support were negatively correlated with rate of patients’ recovery from physical illness.
   
  Based on the above findings, it was recommended that the physically-ill patients should make themselves happy and try to reduce sometimes of negative emotion by themselves. They should be given adequate financial materials, and emotional support by their relatives. The social workers and other professional health care-givers should respond positively to the psycho-social needs of the patients.
   
  The government and hospitals’ management boards should provide adequate medical personnel, medical equipment, drugs, dressings, infrastructural and recreational facilities in the hospitals. They should also make medical treatment free for the chronic or terminally-ill patients. Charity organisations and philanthropic individuals should give financial and materials support to the poor and helpless patients.
   
   
 
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TITLE: Conflict management within the Nigerian Baptist Convention: 1984-1994
AUTHOR:
OLUBANJI ADEDIGBA ALADE
B.TH (BAPTIST THEOL. SEMINARY, KENTURKY, OGBOMOSHO CAMPUS) P.G.D.E. (UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS)
M.ED. (UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN)
ABSTRACT
The study examined the trend in the conflict management within the Nigerian Baptist Convention as a service industry between 1984 and 1994. this was to identify various causes and effects of the conflicts that were experienced among the members of the Convention during the period and to determine appropriate strategies to resolve the conflicts.
The study focused on three major conferences of the convention, namely Oyo West, Osun and Kwara/Kogi Conferences. Three hundred and forty randomly selected subjects out of a total population of 1067 that make up the three conferences served as the sample for the study.
   
  The qualitative research design was employed for the study. Two sets of questionnaires designed using the 5 point Likert scale of measurement served as the major instruments. These were complemented with available records like the annual reports of the conferences and the Convention.
Oral interviews were also conducted on some of the subjects who are officers of the Baptist Convention. Seven null hypotheses were postulated and tested for the study. Data collected were analysed using the Analysis of variance, Pearson product moment correlation co-efficient and the t-test statistical tools.
Finding from the study established that the:-
1. Intra conflict within the Convention was due to the emergence of new doctrine from the youths
2. Pentecostal practices actually led to the division between the Pastors and the congregation.
3. Locus of power distribution in the convention between the elders and the youths was another
major factor for the conflict within the Convention.
4. Inability of the pastors to accept the youths participation in the Management of the
Convention delayed the resolution of the conferences helped to resolve the conflict.
5. Interventions from other conferences helped to resolves the conflict.
6. Participatory management involving all the parties within the Convention was found to be most
ideal in resolving the conflict
7. Confrontational approach to resolving the Convention’s conflict did not help the situation.
Based on the above findings, policy implications on the continuity of the Baptist Convention as an entity was examined and necessary recommendations for peace, harmony and tranquility within the Convention were made in the study.
 
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TITLE: A multivariate approach towards improving workers welfare for achieving increased
productivity in some selected industries in Ondo State.
AUTHOR: EMORUWA, FELIX OLADAPO
B.ED., M.ED (IBADAN)
ABSTRACT
The study examined a multivariate approach towards improving workers’ welfare for achieving increased productivity in some selected industries in Ondo State.
   
  The purpose of the research was to examine the different welfare approaches viz economic, psycho-social and socio-physical approaches, the possible influences using them collectively on workers’ approaches that is counter-view to ensuring efficiency, productivity and profitability in the selected industries.
The study adopted a descriptive survey research design, using six randomly selected industries in Ondo state. A total number of three hundred and fifty-four (354) subjects were randomly selected from all the sections/departments of the industries.
Two types of self-constructed instruments - Welfare Perception-Productivity Scale (WPPS) and Company’s Management Questionnaire (CMQ) were designed, using a 4-point likert Scale. These were complemented with oral interview and available records in the selected industries.
The data collected were collated and analysed, using a multivariate statistical option (correction matrix), analysis of variance, and percentages to test the six postulated hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.
The following findings were established from the study:
1. The use of economic approach to improve workers’ welfare has a significant influence on
employees’ increased productivity.
2. The use of psycho-social welfare approach has a significant influence on workers’ increased
productivity.
3. The use of socio-physical welfare approach does not enhance any significant influence on
workers’ productivity when not complemented with other approaches.
4. Psycho-social approach towards improving workers’ welfare has a greater significant influence
on employees’ productivity than social-physical approach.
5. Economic approach to workers’ welfare was rated by the employees as the psycho-social and

Socio-Physical approaches, using a multivariate approach lead to high productivity of workers.
Based on the above findings, necessary recommendations towards improving workers’ productivity and management profitability were given. Among others,
- the use of all the approaches to increase
- welfare schemes was popularized for use of various industrial organisations.
- Workers’ union executives should always be involved in the organisations’ decision making that affect workers’ welfare.
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TITLE: Retention and failure in distance education: The experience of the National Teachers'
Institute (NTI) Kaduna.
AUTHOR: RASHID ADEWUMI ADERINOYE
B.ED. M.ED., (IBADAN)
MATRIC. NO. 24672
ABSTRACT
This study sets out to determine the factors leading to wastages among distance learners of the Teachers’ Grade II programmes of the National Teachers’ Institute Kaduna. This with a view to finding possible solutions to reducing the failure rate and increase the rate of retention.
The data collected through the instruments used were analysed with the chi-square and analyses of variance (ANOVA) to determine the influence of the various factors on the failure and retention rate of the Teachers’ Grade II distance learners.
The findings from the study established that:
i. the educational background of Teachers’ Grade II distance learners were found inadequate and it
    greatly affected their retention and failure rate.
ii. The course materials significantly affected the learners’ rate of retention and failure.
  iii. The facilitator/tutor factor significantly affected the rate of their retention and failure.
  iv. The environmental variables were not conducive to learners’ need and thus significantly
    ffected the subjects’ rate of retention and failure.
  v. the financial inadequacies of the distance learners grossly affected their rate of
    retention/failure.
  vi. The distance learners are burdened with too much of social responsibilities and this invariably
    affected their rate of retention and failure.
  vii. The motivation available to learners was not adequate and it thus affected the rate of retention
    and failure.
  vii. That factors like boredome, professional advancement, learners’ welfare, external expectation
    of learners’ and their cognitive ability variedly affected the Teachers’ Grade II
    distance learners.
Based on the findings, the following suggestions are made on how distance learning system can sustain learners’ interest and improved performance that:
i. Distance learners should understand the basic concepts and attributes of Distance Education.
ii. entry qualification of learners for a particular course of study be uniform.
iii. the cost of course materials be highly subsidized by the Government or the employers of the
learners.
iv. distance learners be motivated and encouraged during the course of their programmes through
appropriate reward system in the work place.
v. qualified and trained course writers on distance learning system be employed to write course
materials for the learners.
vi. study centres be adequately quipped with support materials to facilitate better learning
environment for the learners.
vii. course materials be produced and distributed early enough for the learners use.
viii. Tutorial masters, supervisors and others involved in any distance learning programme be
promptly paid their honorarium to motivate them.
ix. the various Government policies should take into consideration the implication on the working
populace.
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TITLE: A study of worker alienation in selected establishments in Ibadan.
AUTHOR: FUNMINIYI OLA ADEWUMI
B.A. HONS (EDUC.) (HIST.) (IFE).
M.ED. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, (IBADAN)
ABSTRACT
The study set out to examine the concept of alienation as it affects workers in selected work establishments in Ibadan, Nigeria.
In Chapter One, the changing nature of work over time was examined and in the process, the origin of alienation was found in the antagonistic social relations of societies divided into different social formations. It was within that context that the problem of the study was situated. A brief description of the work establishments form which the sample ware taken was also made.
Chapter Two examined the various theoretical models that have been developed to study the industrial behaviour of workers. Four theoretical models were considered, out of which the phenomenological variant of the ‘Action Approach was taken. The approach was taken because of its appeal which lies in the fact that it views the individual in his entirety both within and outside the work situation in trying to understand his industrial behaviour.
Chapter three is a review of the major positions on alienation. Three positions were identified. These are those of the Marxists, the Anti-Marxists and the Revisionists of Marx. While the three groups appear to concede to the existence of the phenomenon of alienation, there is a disagreement as to its source. The Marxists ascribe alienation to the nature of a class society while the Anti-Marxist would see the nature of modern industry as being the source of alienation. The revisionists would also argue that even in socialist courtiers there are traces of alienation among workers.
Chapter Four highlights the research methodology used for the study. In all, 260 respondents from six different work establishments were covered. In eliciting information from the respondents, open ended questions were asked and a number of workers were also interviewed. In the main, qualitative analysis was used in treating the responses returned by the subjects of the study. This was complemented by a few ANOVA and MCA.
   
The findings of the study and discussion of same, are presented in Chapter Five. The findings confirmed the reality of alienation in the establishments covered by the study, although the extent varied between them, the tendency being highest among the respondents from Isoglass Nigeria, Limited. The lowest tendency was among respondents from the University of Ibadan. The respondents from Vitalink Pharmaceutical Industries, showed how factors or the reality of the work situation can affect the outlook and previous orientations of workers. It was also found that a work situation that does not offer the worker an opportunity for self-fulfilment can lead to frustration.
In Chapter Six, which is the concluding chapter, a summary of the study is given while conclusions are drawn from the findings. Recommendation and suggestions for further studies were made in the light of the findings. Some of the conclusions reached are:
i. that alienation is real in Nigerian industries.
  ii that an instrumental attitude towards work results from the worker’s inability to find meaning
  of fulfillment in work.
iii. That if the worker becomes frustrated in the course of work, he may resort to instrumentalism.
iv that a work organisation that does not take the interests and feelings of the worker into
consideration, make the activity of work unrewarding and unsatisfactory.
v that the tendency towards alienation is higher among junior workers.
vi. that the type of work done, will determine the extent of alienation,
vii. that ownership and control of industry may compound the problem of alienation for the
worker and
viii that the disposition of management has its role in determining the level of alienation
experienced by the worker.
The recommendation put forward are:
- that efforts should be taken to make work worthwhile and rewarding and this may involve re-designing work.
- that academicians and researchers should gear their efforts in the direction of work re-design.
- That the Nigeria Labour Congress should intensify efforts that will enhance the position of workers both within the work situation and the larger Nigeria society.
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TITLE: The study set out to examine the concept of alienation as it affects workers in selected
work establishments in Ibadan, Nigeria.
AUTHOR:REUBEN OLU-UDOCHUKU ANI
B.SC. HONS. ZOOLOGY (NIGERIA)
P.G.D.E. (BENIN), M.ED. (IBADAN)
ABSTRACT
Many Nigeria workers are known to be aspiring to obtain University degree certificates while working and studying at the same time. It is being debated whether those workers are likely to get job satisfaction to work more diligently and be more productive in their jobs.
   
The purpose of this study is an effort to find out the relationships between academic and job aspirations, and job satisfaction among working adult leaders. The study also examined the relationships between the three dependent variables and some selected demographic variables of the learners.
   
The subjects used for this study were 310 learners of the Correspondence and Open Studies Institute of the University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
Three instruments namely, Academic Aspiration Questionnaire, Job Aspiration Questionnaire and Job Satisfaction Questionnaire, were constructed and used for the investigation.
The statistical methods used for analysing the data collected were univariate and multi-variate correlations, regression analysis, analyses of variance and covariance, and multiple classification analyses.
The results show that academic aspiration of the learners is positively highly related to their job aspiration was also found to be highly related to the ages and educational qualifications of the learners at a significant level of 0.01 and with economic status at 0.05.
Job aspiration was found to be very significantly related to age and working experience of the learners at o.o1 level and at 0.05 level with occupation and economic status.
Job satisfaction of the learners was found to be highly related to their course of study and social influence for COSIT study at 0.01 level of significance and at 0.05 level with their ages and working experience.
The other selected variables (sex, residence and marital status) have very low correlations with the three scale scores.
It was found that those who have higher academic qualifications aspire more for academics than those who are with lower academic qualifications.
On analysis of variance it was found that none of the selected demographic variables has any significant effect on academic aspiration.
Age was found to have a very significant effect on job aspiration with 3.15 F-ratio and at 0.025 significance of F. Working experience was also found to have significant effect on job aspiration with 2.48 F-ratio and at 0.03 significant effects on job satisfaction with 4.86 F-ratio and at 0.008 significance of F. Working experience was also found to have significant effect on job aspiration with 2.48 F-ratio and at 0.03 significance of F.
Course of study was found to have a significant effect on job satisfaction with 4.86 F-ratio and at 0.008 significance of F. Working experience of the learners and the social influence on them for COSIT study were found to have very significant effect on job satisfaction with 2.76 and 4.59 F-ratios at 0.019 and 0.001 significance of F. respectively.
Only occupation out of the other selected variables that had low correlation with job satisfaction showed a significant effect on it with 3.57 F-ratio and at 0.001 significance of F.
Majority of the learners were found not satisfied with their jobs.
 
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TITLE: Socio-Economic factors and the terminal examination performance of extra-mural students
of Ibadan Varsity
AUTHOR: MARY OKENWA
B.A. (ED.) HONS. (IFE), M.ED. (IBADAN)
ABSTRACT
This thesis examines the problem posed by such socio-economic factors as age, sex, occupation and distance travelled on the performance of students in their final examinations, particularly in preparation for the General Certificate of Education examinations.
In this study, various categories of extra-mural students are grouped into two quinquennial sections 1979 to 1983, and 1984 to 1988. The effects of the respective socio-economic factors on the performance of each of the experimental sections are measured in terms of examination parameters. The means of the final examination marks are also determined. Hence, reasonable comparisons are possible, both on a yearly basis, and in quinquennial terms.
Based on the assumption that socio-economic factors do exert influence on the success or failure in the final examinations of extra-mural students, the following hypotheses were tested:-
(a.) The failure rate of sedentary workers in the final examinations is less that that of hard working
manual workers.
(b) The longer the distance which extra-mural students have to travel from their homes to classes,
  the greater the failure rate exhibited.
(c) The older the G.C.E. extra-mural student is, the les would be his exhibition of failure in his or her
  final examination.
(d) Female extra-mural students show higher incidence of final examination failure.
The study discovers that socio-economic factors do influence performance in the final examinations. For example, the study reveals that :-
(i.) sedentary workers performed better than manual workers in the final examinations of 1983 and
1988.
(ii) While distance to lecture venues also has measurable influence on students’ performance
  during the period of study.
(iii) Female students performed better than male students in the final examinations.
(iv) In the same way, the study establishes the tendency for younger students to perform better
than their older counterparts in the period of the two quiquenuial sessions.
The findings have led to such suggestions as giving extra assistance to older students, as well as arranging students in junior and senior classes.
The finding of this study have implications for further research. They open up a whole vista of research possibilities. Apart from earlier studies carried out on the effect of some socio-economic factors on learning outcomes by European and American scholars, this area has not been much researched into, in the local contest, beside earlier work done by:
(i.) T.O. Fasokun titled “Relationship Between Learning Climate and Academic Achievement in
Extra-Mural classes: A case study”.
(ii) I.A. Abiona titled “A Comparative Analysis of Socio-Economic status of students Attending
  Remedial/Continuing Education Centres in Ibadan and Iwo”
(iii) M. Ookenwa titled “Some Factors Affecting Absenteeism Among Extra-Mural Students At
The University of Ibadan”. Quoted in the references.
The findings therefore give food for thought and pose a challenge to researchers to probe deeper in search of further information.
 
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TITLE: Multilaterial bargaining approach towards effective dispute resolution in the public sector:
The experience of Federal Universities in Nigeria, 1990-1996.
AUTHOR: PETER BRAI ABU
B.A. (HONS.), M.I.L.R. (IB), AMNIM, AIPM
ABSTRACT
The study examined the effectiveness of the multi-lateral bargaining approach toward effective dispute resolutions between Labour and Management in the Federal Universities in Nigeria. This was to establish the advantages this approach has over and above the traditional bilateral collective bargaining approach in dispute resolution as in the case of University workers with different unions and associations with the same employer. The Academic Staff Union, the Senior Staff Association, the Non-Academic Staff union, the governing Councils, the Principal Officers of the Federal Universities constitutes the study population.
The research design employed in this study is the ex-post facto correlation design. All the federal Universities in Nigeria served as the focus of the study. A total number of two hundred and twenty-eight subjects were used for the study. These subjects included all the executives of the existing unions and associations - Academic and Non-academic Staff and all the Principal Officers of the Federal University in Nigeria.
Two sets of questionnaire: The Management Questionnaire (MQ) and the Workers Questionnaire (WQ) served as the main instruments for the study. These were complemented with oral interviews and the available records in all the Universities on various issues relating to conflicts between labour and management.
The data collected were analysed with the use of correlational matrix to test the hypotheses postulated for the study at 0.05 level of significance. The study established the fact that multilateral bargaining approach encourages better cohesion and cooperation among the workers in the Universities. The approach also guaranteed industrial democracy within the work environments by reducing industrial strife. It also reduced the communication gaps between labour and management thus enhancing industrial harmony among the workers in the Universities. Based on the findings from the study, recommendations were made for the adoption of multilateral collective bargaining approach for dispute resolution as against the traditional bilateral collective bargaining approach.
University Authorities should ensure industrial harmony among the workforce through multilateral bargaining approach so that all the factions within the Universities should see themselves as working towards the same goal.
   
There should be Intra and Inter Union Executive meeting between the Academic and Non-Academic to determine the subject matter to jointly present to the Council of the various Universities. This would reduce to a great extent the Intra and inter conflicts between the Academic and Non-Academic Staff.
   
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