Communication as a Means of Enhancing Organizational Development (A Case Study of International Tobacco Company, Ilorin)

PROPOSAL

         This is a proposal on a project topic: COMMUNICATION AS A MEANS OF ENHANCING ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

         This work is a part of requirement for the award of higher National diploma (HND) in business administration of Kwara state polytechnic, Ilorin Kwara state. In this project, the research would comment on the importance and significant of communication in an organization especially manufacturing industries. Also, effective communication process would be evaluated to let the readers know the reason why communication has to be managed effectively in an organization.

         The searchers would visit international tobacco company Ilorin for more findings on the project, and for collection of necessary on the project, and for collection of necessary data to be used. The problem findings would be analyzed in the project. The view of many authors, the organization itself, manager and the people involved in the process would also be discussed extensively. Based on the summary of findings and conclusion the authors reasonable recommendation of how to improve the skill of communication process in an organization settings and how it can be managed effectively to enhance organizational development would be discussed.

         Chapter one of these projects shows that introduction, statement of problems, objectives of the study, scope and limitation of the study, significant of the study, historical background of the study and definition of the terms.

         Chapter two shows the literature review, chapter three of the project shows the research methodology, justification of research methodology adopted, and method of data collection chapter four of this project shows the presentation and analysis of data.

         Chapter five shows the summary, conclusion recommendation and bibliography.

         Finally, the researchers hope the write up would not only attract attention of various organizations in Nigeria, but would also form an important topic of discussion among business education managers and industrialist. Therefore the researchers hope to summarize their finding, drawn conclusion and suggest recommendations, which would be put to valuable uses by the case study organization and other industry alike

TABLE OF CONTENT

Title page                                                              i

Approval page                                                      ii

Dedication                                                            iii

Acknowledgement                                                iv-vi

Abstract                                                                vii-ix

Table of contents                                                 x-xi

CHAPTER ONE

1.1      Introduction                                                1

1.2      Background of the study                            5      

1.3      Statement of the problems                          9

1.4      Objective of the study                                 10

1.5      Significance of the study                             10

1.6      Scope of the study                                       11

1.7      Limitation of the study                                12

1.8      Definition of terms                                      13

1.9      Plans of the study                                       14

CHAPTER TWO

2.0      Reviews of related literatures                      15-43       

CHAPTER THREE

3.0      Research methodology                                44

3.1      Historical background of the case study    47

3.2      Population of the study                               49

3.3      Sample size                                                 50

3.4      Sources of data/method of data collection 50

3.5      Methods of data analysis                            52

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0      Data presentation, interpretation analysis 54

4.1      Data presentation                                        55

4.2      Data interpretation                                      56

4.3      Data analysis                                               58

4.4      Research findings                                        64

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0      Summary, conclusion and recommendation 66

5.1      Summary                                                    66

5.2      Recommendation                                         68

5.3       Conclusion                                                 70

Reference                                                     72