ABSTRACT Numerous types of management tools can be applied to innovation management -conceptual and mathematical models, frameworks, checklists, benchmarking tool and specific techniques and methodologies. This paper reviews a variety of such tools, examines their take-up by and usefulness to industry and speculates on their relevance and applicability in complex product system industries. The development of many of the tools has been informed by the large body of research into the success an...
ABSTRACT The study was motivated by the necessity to establish what constitute policies in organization. Personnel policies are a preplanned course of action establishing a guide to work towards acceptable outcomes and objectives in organizational. Effective impacting of policies in a company motivation team work, this team work in organization enable the organization to achieve effectiveness and efficiency in the objective of organization. Sources of data include, primary and secondar...
ABSTRACT This research work would be carried out to appreciate the role of management information system as an aid to management decision making. The ignorance of management information system or its in certain business especially small scale business has led to unsound. Management system, thereby affecting the effectiveness and efficiency of its operations. This may lead to the non-effectiveness and efficient achievement of the firm’s objectives. The objectives is to determine th...
INTRODUCTION Today’s competitive market, in almost every category of products and service, is characterized by accelerating change, innovation, and massive amounts of new information, much by changing customer needs significant and customers’ behaviour and market changes happen almost over night change in market preference or technology, which used to take years, may now take place in a few short months. As the pace of change accelerates it become more difficult to maintain stable relat...
ABSTRACT In a recent survey by the federal ministry of education indicates high incidence of unemployment among graduate of higher education institutes in Nigeria. The collaboration of other statistics that situation of unemployment in Nigeria is among the highest in the World, evidence that of the increasing deterioration in the quality of life of most Nigerians. In summary of the literature review, the study of entrepreneurship which is emphasized is the act of getting into and managing y...
INTRODUCTION In business sense, communication is the means by which people in organization exchange views and information regarding the operations of an enterprise or business. Communication takes place at all levels in the organization both among and between the executives, managers, personnel, supervisors foremen and employers. Communication process is continuously in action, conveying information, ideas of individuals. Communication affects all aspects of management since none of them ca...
PREFACE In government or private sector business does not do anything right without planning. This is a well established fact even in the days of the primitive man. It is even more necessary today to plan for any meaningful activity before implementation. Many government and private business have spent quite considerable resources in this regard with measurable success or failure. This book is intended to review the management of developmental planning in Nigeria since independence in 1960. V...
THEORETICAL ISSUES It is generally agreed that economic development implies sustained increases in income per capita coupled with positive structural changes (political, cultural and social etc) within an economy over a long period of time. It follows that economic growth may not result in economic development. For development to occur, there must be visible positive changes to income dis...
INTRODUCTION Planning is an activity we perform before taking action. It is an anticipatory decision making process of deciding what to do and how to do it before action is required. Its purpose, he continued, is to facilitate progress and improve performance and that planning allows integrated, consistent, and purposeful action. Although mistakes can be avoided and problems can be anticipated and overcome before crises arise, but that planning must be based on prudent forecasts and rea...
ABSTRACT The trend contemporary to the business organizations of our time is that the business organizations such as Emenite Asbestostes Limited owe certain responsibilities to the area, more specifically, inhabitants of the Community in which the business operates. Among these responsibilities is social responsibility. Every Emenite Asbestostes Limited is expected to show interest on the issues relating to its responsibilities, and should by no way attempt to evade or ignore it. An organiz...
INTRODUCTION Critical thinking is not a matter of accumulating information. A person with a good memory and who knows a lot of facts is not necessarily good at critical thinking. A critical thinker is able to deduce consequences from what he knows, and he knows how to make use of information to solve problems, and to seek relevant sources of information to inform himself/herself. Critical thinking should not be confused with being argumentative or being critical of other people. Although cr...
INTRODUCTION Time is a dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them. Time has long been a major subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a manner applicable to all fields without circularity has consistently eluded scholars. Nevertheless, diverse fields such as business, industry, sports, the sciences, and the performing arts all incorporat...
ABSTRACTThe research on the account for the low productivity in Public Corporations in Nigeria with reference to Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) Enugu Zonal Office is aimed at determining hold best to improve the productivity of Nigerian Public Corporations. In conducting the research, information were sourced from many places as well as reviewing of related literatures. Questionnaires were also conducted for proper collection of data for the research and other forms of data collect...
ABSTRACT This research work was carriedout to analyze the implications of privatization the unbundled firms of the PHCN. The broad objective of the study was to ascertain the effect of the privatization program on the Nigeria selecting and the economy as a whole. In the course of the study, survey research method was adopted and the researcher formulated a part of hypothesis. A sample size of 150 respondents was used. Primary data were collected from respondents using questionnaires m...
ABSTRACT The socio-economic background of an individual can never be separated from the immediate environment within which the day to day activities of the individual revolves. Based on this assertion the occupation, culture, dressing and behaviour of people is a direct reflection of their immediate surroundings and to a great extent affects their social and business mindset. Therefore this research work is embarked upon to determine the socio-economic background on entrepreneurship capacit...