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PERCEIVED FACTORS INFLUENCING INDUSTRIAL HARMONY AMONG HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS IN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA TEACHING HOSPITAL, ITUKU OZALLA, ENUGU STATE

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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 the perceived 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).