Integrating Islamic Work Ethics: A Solution to the Persistent ASUU Strikes in Nigeria

Abstract

Inclusivity of the Islamic law is felt in every aspect of human dealings. Employer-employee relations also attract the necessary attention to creating a friendly interaction that can foster a successful ending for the parties. As a means, certain roles and rights of each are recommended. The Nigeria education policy recognises university education as the apex where citizens can obtain the peak of academic certification. The government remains the employer of the public universities while staff are employees; both academic and non-academic, duo stakeholders have complementary responsibilities that must not suffer. The academic staff established the Academic Staff Union of the University (ASUU) in 1978 to cater for the welfare of its members. The union sets certain approaches to achieve the set aim and objectives and the most effective is the seizure of every academic activity by her member-institutions which is sometimes persistent. The present research work sets to x-ray the establishment of ASUU, highlight her aim and objectives, causes and effects of her strikes, and delve into Islamic work ethics to see its relevance to solving the incessant ASUU strikes in Nigeria. The descriptive research method and the library are used as instruments for data collection. The findings of this research reveal that both the employer and employee are not holistic in the discharge of their designed roles and are inconsiderate of the effects of their actions. Adoption of the Islamic worldview on the employer-employee relation is found to be worthy of being given a try by the government and ASUU and can subjugate the causes of incessant ASUU strikes, which contradicts the Islamic work ethics as identified. In conclusion, university education has always been designed to use the gown to develop the town but such can be realised when each stakeholder discharges its role responsibly.