ABSTRACT The study investigated personality type, parenting style and socioeconomic status as predictors of adolescents’ delinquency behaviour among three hundred and sixty (360) secondary school students from Nsukka Local Government Area. They consist of both male and females aged 10 – 17 years with a mean age of 13.5 years. Three instruments were used such as; Type A behaviour scale, parental bonding Instrument and the Self report delinquency scale. Multiple regression analysis was used...
ABSTRACT This study was on investment management practices and growth of public enterprises in Enugu state, Nigeria. The objective of this thesis was to identify investment management practices employed in public enterprises in Enugu State; and explain how the adoption of appropriate investment management practices promoted the growth of the enterprises. The purpose of this study was to analyse any observed growth of public enterprises in Enugu State in terms of the extent to which they emplo...
ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of staff training and development on employees’ work attitudes in Anambra State Local Government system. It worked on the contention that the low performance of employees in Anambra State Local Government system was as a result of the existing poor attitudes to work put up by the employees. The study therefore concerned itself with the primary task of finding out the extent at which local government training and development programmes has been able to...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effect of family responsibility on work commitment of professional women workers. Two hundred (200) women employees engaged in the financial institutions were used as participants. One hundred and twenty (120) were unmarried while eighty (80) were married. Among the married ones, thirty-eight (38) had children while forty-two (42) had no child. The participants were selected using stratified random sampling method. The instrument that was used is the Organ...
Abstract IDPs worldwide are amongst the most vulnerable groups in society. They face a number of challenges and these include poverty, food insecurity, acute water shortages, inadequate educational and health facilities as well as marginalization. In the wake of such challenges this has given rise to the intervention by civil society in the form of programs and projects aimed at improving the livelihoods of these IDPs and empowering them. The aim of the research is to analyse the role played ...
Abstract Zimbabwe is facing a huge amount of inequity in terms of labour relations due to the Supreme Court ruling of 17 July 2015 by Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku in the case of Nyamande and Anor V Zuva. This instability within parastatals has become a common feature as the ruling triggered mass terminations on notice without benefits. Morale within the work place subsequently hit a low and by the end of September 2015 it had led to over 30 000 job terminations. The rights workers had pr...
ABSTRACT The study focuses on the electoral system , election management and democracy in Zimbabwe.The study primarily focuses on how the electoral system in Zimbabwe influence democracy.Essential to this research is to critically look at the factors that impede the electoral system to achieve democracyThe research questions were therefore a replica of the objectives of the research so as to come up with a feasible research with worthy recommendations in the last vii chapter.It must be noted ...
ABSTRACT Vegetation Condition Index (VCI), a function of Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) forms a very critical model for climate modelling, detecting crop yield productivity and yield prediction. It approximates the weather (rainfall) component in NDVI value and allows quantifying the impact of weather (rainfall) on maize crop. The thrust of this research study was to detect land suitability potential for maize crop based on VCI-drydekads in Mberengwa District, Ward 36 in view o...
ABSTRACT In Zimbabwe youth constitute a large percentage of the population and they are most marginalised group of people when it comes to resource allocation. As result their livelihoods have been affected by lack resources, capabilities and assets to improve their livelihoods. However the Zimbabwe government has made numerous efforts to improve the livelihoods of youth. One of the efforts done by the Zimbabwean government is to create the Ministry of Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Em...