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A STUDY OF NIGERIA FOREIGN POLICY UNDER PEOPLE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ADMINISTRATION, 1999-2007

           ABSTRACT Following  return  to  the  democratic  rule  in  the  nation  back  into  the international system with intensity of his foreign trips and commitments, the country was  reconnected to the outside world through shuttle diplomacy which paved way for FDI flow into the country. In other to tackle the perennial problems in the country after years of international isolation, apart from economic domestic reform, the foreign policy approach and the shuttle dipl...

The Influence of e=Ethical Leadership Behavior, Leader-Member e=Exchange on e=Employee Job Involvement and Organizational Commitment

ABSTRACT This present study aims to examine the influence of ethical leadership behavior, leader-member exchange on employee job involvement and organizational commitment. A total of 250 participants from private owned organizations in Lagos state where use in the study, and 250 questionnaires were collected after the completion.  Data were collected using Ethical Leadership Scale (Brown Trevino, & Harrison, 2005), LMX-multidimensional scale (Liden & Maslyn, 1998), Job Involvement Questionn...

Seun Ogunla 93 PAGES (17470 WORDS) Psychology Project
Remuneration and job satisfaction among Lagos state government teachers

ABSTRACT This present study investigated remuneration and job satisfaction among Lagos state government teachers. A total of 100secondary school teachers in both government and private schools (Alimosho Junior and Senior Grammar School, Eminent Comprehensive College, Dansol High School, Bachel International College, Abesan High School and Community Secondary School) Iyana Ipaja, Lagos state were used in the study, therefore a total 100 questionnaires were collected after the completion.  Da...

Seun Ogunla 71 PAGES (13621 WORDS) Psychology Project
The Influence of Performance Appraisal on Employee Motivation and Productivity

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to examined the influence of performance appraisal on employee motivation and productivity in the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Apapa, Lagos. The study was carried out in Nigerian Ports Authority, Apapa, Lagos State. A total of 150 questionnaires were distributed and gotten back after completion. Data were collected using Employee Productivity Scale, (EPS) (Chen and Tjosvold, 2008), Performance Apprasal Scale (PAS) (Pearce and Porter, 1986) and The Multidi...

Seun Ogunla 73 PAGES (15622 WORDS) Psychology Project
The emergence of cyber bulling in Nigeria and its effect on self-esteem among adolescence

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to examine and analyze the emergence of cyber bulling in Nigeria and its effect on self-esteem among adolescence. The study was carried out among four senior secondary school students in Lagos metropolis. Specifically, Birch Freeman High School, Anglican Girl Senior Secondary School, Lagos Progressive Senior Secondary School and Kliffon Senior Secondary School students in Lagos State. A total of 200 questionnaires were distributed and gotten back after comp...

Seun Ogunla 55 PAGES (13623 WORDS) Psychology Project
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Vulnerable Youth Towards Sexual and Reproductive Health (Report for the Community Survey on Vulnerable Youth in Calabar South, Cross River State)

Adolescence is a pivotal time in a child’s life and a gateway to adulthood. This stage of life presents a  very critical point in life because the child is transiting into adulthood, decisions made at this stage  certainly does affect the child in life. There are 1.2 billion adolescent in the world today and nine out  of ten of these lives in Asia and Sub Saharan Africa. Despite increasing insights into the opportunities  that education and literacy can offer to children especially girl...

Planning framework in organisations and information flows within management control

In today’s world information is considered as important as other factors like capital, human resources and material. But the most important task is finding the right information which can support the business process and work task (Kurt Sandkuhl, 2007). The right information available to the right person and on the right time can make a significant difference in the work tasks and business processes in an organisation; in fact if the right information is not available to the user then he ha...

PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL OF OPERATIONAL COST OF MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT    Scarce resources must be properly planned and controlled using scientific approaches to control cost of allocating them. The root cause of undue production and high cost of production can neither be easily traced using traditional method nor past experience even computer systems. This study used Linear Programming Model to plan production of Products of Adama Beverages Limited. The aim was to apply Linear Programming Model to determine the products and how many to produce to asc...

THE EFFECT OF ETHICAL ACCOUNTING PRACTICES ON ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY IN OSUN STATE, NIGERIA

ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of ethical accounting practices on organizational productivity in Osun state, Nigeria. To achieve this objective, data was collected from primary and secondary sources. The secondary sources were from textbooks, journals, magazine, public and academic libraries and unpublished thesis. The primary source adopts descriptive research design questionnaire while data were collected from 176 respondents cutting across organisations in Osun State. Our hypothes...

Copyright management industry in Nigeria

ABSTRACT Copyright management under the law in Nigeria is an area of law that has not yet been fully explored. This is not because the law is not known, but because people are so reluctant to deal with the law and also the awareness has not so much been canvassed. Copyright faced lots of problems in Nigeria and these problems are causing losses of income to musicians, authors, actors, publishers, amongst others. However, in order to understand the reasons behind this development, where the c...

JOB EVALUATION PROJECT REPORT FOR A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY IN NIGERIA

INTRODUCTION Job evaluation is a method for comparing different jobs to provide a basis for grading and pay structure. It is an assessment of the relative worth of various jobs on the basis of a consistent set of job and personal factors, such as qualifications and skillsrequired and it aims at determining which jobs should get more pay than others. Several methods such as job ranking, job grading and factor comparison are used in job evaluation. Research indicates, however, that each method...

Effectiveness of the audit committee to quality financial reporting in Nigeria

Effectiveness of the audit committee to quality financial reporting in Nigeria. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Financial reporting is the preparation of published report for users of financial statements. Theissues relating to financial reporting could be traced back to 1975 with the advent of what wasthen known as corporate report, in England. In Nigeria, following the increasing demand forfinancial   information   on   companies,   financial   reporting   h...

NIGERIA FOREIGN POLICY IN THE FOURTH REPUBLIC

CHAPTER 1 NIGERIA FOREIGN POLICY IN THE FOURTH REPUBLIC 1.1 INTRODUCTION The year 1999 is very significant in the history of politics in Nigeria. It marks the beginning of a new political generation in Nigeria which is the birth of democracy. The birth of democratic system of government in Nigeria was greeted with high hopes and expectations in the belief that a new dawn has eventually been ushered. Such expectations were informed by the fact that democracy is reputed as the best form of gove...

AUDITOR AND LAW: CONCEPT AND IMPLICATIONS (A CASE STUDY OF FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC, OKPARA AVENUE, ENUGU, NIGERIA)

ABSTRACT This research project is designed to bring out the importance of audit to   the effective working of the organization using First Bank Nigeria Plc Okpara Avenue,Enugu State. In pursuant to this, data were collected by personal interview, questionnaires and through researcher’s observation. Secondary data were collected from journals, publications and related works. Also, findings showed that all the strategies for effective working operations are applicable in  the case st...

SERVICE MANAGEMENT AND CUSTOMER CONTENTMENT: A CASE OF KEYSTONE BANK PLC. GOMBE STATE NIGERIA

Abstract Customer contentment and service management is a well-established concept and has long been a topic of high interest in both academia and practice in several areas like marketing, banking, consumer research, economic psychology, welfare-economics, and economics. This paper attempts an examination of service management and customer contentment in a service firms using Keystone Bank Plc, Gombe state as a case study. SERVQUAL model of dimension of service quality is adopted as framewor...


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