Abstract:
This study was conceived to determine the factors influencing industrial harmony among health care professionals in UNTH, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State. The study was specifically aimed at assessing the influence of interdisciplinary collaboration, workplace communication and equitable remuneration among health care professionals on industrial harmony. The study used a descriptive survey design. Non probability purposive sampling was used to select medicine, nursing, pharmacy and medical laboratory science disciplines. The population of study was 1371, with a sample size of 300 health care professionals,consisting of eighty doctors, one hundred and ten nurses, twenty pharmacists and fourteen Medical Laboratory Scientists.A researcher-developed questionnaire was employed to collect data from the respondents. Analysis of Variance was used to test the hypotheses at a 0.05 level of significance. Results showed that theperceived influence of interdisciplinary collaboration among health care professionals on industrial harmony was statistically significant with the health care professionals reporting a favourable interdisciplinary collaboration (2.86 ±0.76, p= 0.0000). Theperceived influence of workplace communication among health care professionals on industrial harmony was statistically significant with the respondents reporting poor workplace communication among the health care professionals and with the management (2.31 ±0.79, p= 0.0160). The result for influence of equitable remuneration of health care professionals on industrial harmony was notstatistically significant, with the health care professionals reporting dissatisfaction with their remunerations (2.49 ±1.00, p=0.821). The result showed that there existed good interdisciplinary collaboration among health care professionals but also a need for improvement and a more inclusive approach. Workplace communication among health care professionals in UNTH needs improvement to promote healthy working environment. Health care professionals’ remuneration was not very satisfactory and a more equitable remuneration is neededto boost industrial harmony and help forestall industrial dishamony.
