EMPLOYEE WELFARE PROGRAMME IN NIGERIA NITEL LIMITED
ABSTRACT
The practice of employee welfare programmes has now become a popular phenomenon of the total personal policy of any organization. The programme involve given extra benefit to employer to supplement their ways at a cost to the employs.
They are important to both the organization and the employees. From employs point of view it is participated that a good employee welfare programme will indices the employee to work hard and improve their general attitude towards the organization.
But for the employee, these benefits represent an extra income, additional serenity or more desirable effort. In examining this practice in Nigeria telecommunication (NITEL) Ltd. The stand is divided into (3) three chapters.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
BACK GROUP OF THE STUDY
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
SIGNIFICANCE
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
REFERENCE
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
DEFINITION OF EMPLOYEE
TYPES OF EMPLOYEE
WELFARE PROGRAMME
GROWTH OF EMPLOYEE
PURPOSE OF EMPLOYEE
PRINCIPLE OF EMPLOYEE
REFERENCE
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND LIMITATION
SOURCES OF DATA
METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
DETERMINATION OF SAMPLE DATA
LIMITATIONS OF STUDY
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND ON THE SUBJECT MATTER- NITEL
The Nigeria Telecommunication limited (NITEL) come into existence in January 1985 as a result of the merger between the former Nigeria External Telecommunication limited (NET) and the telecommunication sector of the former post Telecommunications Department (P&T) by the federal Government. The reason for the merger as advised by the government were the compatibility of service/ equipment and the streamlining of activates in both NET & P&T. it was envisaged that NITEL will definitely create harmonization and complimentarily of services. Which up till the merger, were handled by NET (external and P&T (international).
Unlike most government parastatals, NITEL was created to render its service at a profit. The company is not only self financing but serves as a source of revenue per government. It would be recalled that with NET & P&T, the parent bodies, were solely owned by the federal government hence NITEL could be described as the “brain child” of government. The main objective of the company is other provision of telecommunication services, both internally and internally through in a combination of communication satellites, submarine cables of microwave links and the high frequency radio network.
The telecommunication services provided by NITEL include the following (both internal and external and external):
Telephone service
Telex service
Telegram service
Press recreation
Presses international direct delivery service (100)
Voice cast
Leased Grant
Photo telegrams
Ship shore service
Television courage the satellite
High frequency radio service.
The above service are being rendered to the public by NITEL at us head offices in Lagos and at its branches all across the nation on a 24 hours daily basic.
The importance of the above service cannot be overstated in the development of our country’s economy. It is a known fact that communication is and essential and vital means of development in terms of peace and war. Its effectiveness and efficiency are not only desirable, but inevitable if the nation must achieve its economic objective and maintains its proper place in the comity of nations
NITEL in its strive of producing improved and efficient telecommunication service is segmented into five zones of operations, with the national headquarters in Lagos. The zones are:
South west
South East
North west
North East
The Zones are further into divided into 23 territories, all across the 21 states of the federation, including the federal capital Territory, Abuja.
The company is structured into a division for proper and effective administration. Each division is headed by a direction or general manager, as the case may be. There are two deputy managing director who co-ordinate the division together for achieving the company’s objectives. The company as a whole is being headed by a managing director. At the top of the organization hierarchy, the company has a beard of director comprising the chairman, the managing director, the two deputy managing directors and the heads of division and zones; as well as the company secretary/ lager Adviser. The organization is really a complex one and was a such designed to case the achievement of the company objective.
In the area of administration, the company had formulated many new polities. One of such polities includes the recently revised fringe benefit schemes.
