DOES PROCEDURAL AND INTERACTIONAL JUSTICE IMPROVE EMPLOYEES
PERFORMANCE IN EDUCATIONAL SECTOR? A STUDY OF CONFLICT BETWEEN
ASUU AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Received: 25.04.2021; Revised: 28.06.2021, Accepted: 05.07.2021, Published Online: 19.07.2021
Solomon Adejare BABARINDE, PhD
Department of Business Administration and Marketing,
Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria

Olufemi Samuel OMOYELE, PhD
Department of Business Administration and Marketing,
Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria

Ayodele Aderemi OPADERE, PhD
Department of Behavioral Studies,
Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria

Folake Olubunmi LANRE-BABALOLA
Department of Sociology,
Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria

ABSTRACT
The aim of this paper is to present an empirical survey of resolving conflict between academics in the
Nigerian public universities and Federal Government of Nigeria. The paper adopts the survey research
with the use of primary data obtained from the use of questionnaire as the test instrument. The study
population was 6800 and a sample size of 378 was drawn from the estimated population. With the use
of structural equation model, the study focused on different aspects of conflict in Nigerian public
universities. There appears to be very little in the area of the quality of conflict approach management
in handling the range of internal and external conflicts in the Nigerian educational institutions.
However, there is the fear that without this critical connection, intervention efforts will yield very
minimal results. Consequently, this study concludes that the factors affecting the industrial disputes
between the ASUU and the FGN have been largely propelled by historical, economic and political
factors which have become institutionalized and embedded in the Nigerian polity so that the disputes
will continue to be difficult to resolve. The study recommended in the light of this study that not only
procedures should be revised from time to time, but also their execution needs to be monitored more
seriously.
Keywords: Conflict, University System, Interactional Justice, Procedural Justice