Abstract

The study examined the relationship between industrial harmony and employee performance of oil and gas firms in Nigeria. The specific objectives were to: evaluate the relationship between employee board representation and employee job satisfaction and ascertain the relationship between employee collective bargaining and employee job commitment. Study area was Niger Delta of Nigeria. The research design of the study was descriptive survey design. The population of the study comprised of 173,000 staff of 23 quoted Oil and Gas Firms in Nigeria. Simple random technique was used to select four Oil and Gas Firms in Nigeria namely: Shell PLC, Exxon Mobil PLC, Chevron Corporation PLC, Conoil PLC. The sample size of 371 respondents was drawn from population of the study using Freund and Williams sampling technique. Research questions were answered using frequency, mean and standard deviation. The hypotheses stated were tested using Pearson correlation statistic. The empirical results showed that employee board representation has significant relationship with employee job satisfaction (r-statistic = 0.761; P-value 0.00 < Sig-value (0.05) and employee collective bargaining has significant relationship with employee job commitment (r-statistic = 0.750; P-value 0.00 < Sig-value (0.05). Management of oil and gas firms should give room for unions in the organization to air their views and try as much as possible to align the needs of the employees to that of the firm.