ESSENTIALS OF LABOUR RELATIONS IN NIGERIA: Volume II (2016) by Dafe Otobo

Combined together in three volumes are the author’s writings on labour and employment relations in Nigeria spanning over three and a half decades. Volume two covers the Nigerian industry-specific employment relations, comparative labour relations and cross-cutting African development issues. Volume 2 contains Nigerian industry-specific employment relations, comparative labour relations and cross-cutting African development issues:

• Industrial Harmony in the University System

• Globalisation and telecommunications industry in Nigeria

• Managing unemployment of professionals in Nigeria

• Achieving regulatory certainty and independence in the Oil and Gas Industry

• Formation of the Nigerian Universities Pension Fund Administrator

• The Relevance of Labour in Nigeria’s Socio-Economic and Political Development

• The notion of International Labour Standards: critical observations

• Globalisation and National Development: the role of Labour

• Career Planning in a Deregulated Economic Environment

• Engendering Better Resource Management Policies in a Globalised environment

• Implications of Fiscal Policies for Human Resource Management and Development

• Unemployment and making a living: compelling problems in our national life

• The Economic Crisis and Employment

• Agreements and regional integration in Africa

• Decent Work Agenda and Social Dialogue:  challenges to stakeholders in the face of Global Financial Crisis

• Labour administration, regional integration and co-operation in poverty alleviation: the case of West and Southern Africa

• Labour administration, regional integration and co-operation in Africa: integrating labour and employment sector under globalisation

• The Role of Labour Administration and Industrial Relations

• State and Corporate Governance: the missing link in Africa’s Development