Commercialization And Workers’ Remuneration: A Study Of Nigeria Ports Plc (Np Plc) Lagos

Abstract

The study is on “Commercialization and workers’ Remuneration: a study of

Nigeria Ports Plc, Lagos. The study was restricted to the three sea ports in Lagos

(Marina, Tin-can and Ijora Wharf) and a total no of 558 respondents who are

employees of these three ports in Lagos were surveyed in the study. The crosssectional

survey design was used while six research questions were formulated

to guide the study. Respondents are of both sexes. Questionnaires were

administered to 540 of the respondents randomly selected among the staff who

have spent five years and above in the company. Focus Group Discussion (FGDs)

was used to study nine staff of the organization randomly selected from the ports

while In-Depth Interview (IDIs) were administered on another nine purposively

selected members of the staff, who had neither been selected for questionnaire

nor FGD study. It was discovered among other things following the testing of

four hypotheses at 0.05 levels of significance that: Commercialization of the

Nigeria ports leads to higher wages in that establishment; there is a significant

relationship between commercialization of Nigeria ports and duration of

working hours there; there is a significant relationship between

commercialization of Nigeria Ports and levels of profit in the organization; also

increasing levels of incentives in the Nigeria ports are a significant function of

commercialization of the establishment. The implications of the findings for the

government and other workers were also discussed. The recommendations

based on the findings were that: staff training should be a regular phenomenon;

The transport scheme of the company should be re-organized for effective and

efficient services, seminars and enlightenment programmes should be organized

for all the stakeholders to know the way forward; The retrenched workers

should be adequately compensated and trained towards achieving a better life.