AbstractJob satisfaction is a crucial factor that determines retention of employees in all industries. In the 21st century, with the abundance of job opportunities available to employees, a constant challenge faced by upper management is in the retention of existing employees. Job satisfaction is defined as a general behavior towards an object or job (Okpara, 2006). Locke (1976) defined job satisfaction as a positive or pleasant emotional state res...
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">ABSTRACT mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> color:#231F20">This research work studies the international competitiveness of the Nigerian economy in the global market by analyzing the relationship between trade liberalization and economic growth in Nigeria. Using time-series data over the period 1980-2013, the study focus on instabilities in regime, trade policy, and exchange rate using both single and system estimation technique...
ABSTRACT Customer satisfaction is a fundamental marketing construct in the last three decades.In the past, it was unpopular and unaccepted concept because companies thought it was more important to gain new customers than retain the existing ones.However,in this present decade,companies have gained better understanding of the importance of customer satisfaction (especially service producing companies) and adopted it as a high priority operational goal. This study aimed at investigating the o...
Abstract Ethiopia is producing ranges of coffee varieties with unique flavors, quality and traditional organic and shade grown coffee by smallholder farmers for which actors including cooperatives are involved in adding values at each stage of the activities of the value chain. This study focused on examining the linkage between cooperatives and other actors in coffee value chain, and analyzing factors influencing the effectiveness of cooperatives in coffee value chain. The study was conducte...
ABSTRACTThis study focuses on the challenges of Performance management for non-marketing staff in Nigerian banks. The primary purpose of this study is to identify the challenges facing this non-marketing staffs. The need for performance management in Nigerian banks cannot be over-emphasized because it is a traditional approach to evaluating the staff performance. Data collected were analyzed in tables with simple percentage. One hundred and eighty (180) questionnaires were distrib...
ABSTRACTThe research was conducted mainly to evaluate the role of planning and forecasting in achieving managerial efficiency. Individuals and organizations have operated for hundreds of years by planning and forecasting in an intuitive manner. It was not until the 1950s that formal approaches became popular. Since then, such approaches have been used by business, government, and nonprofit organizations. Advocates of formal approaches (for example, Steiner, 1979) claim that an o...
ABSTRACT The ghost workers syndrome has been a menace across all tiers of government for years which has affected the Nigerian economy. Annually, millions of naira is siphoned from government coffers through salary payments to non-existing employees who have fraudulently been listed in the payroll system This study examined the effect of ghost workers in Nigerian publicly service using Abuja municipal council as a reference. The study made used of descriptive and survey designs to carry out ...
ABSTRACT In modern business, planning and forecasting are important tools of company management and decision- making as they assist in the appraisal of investment project in the analysis measurement and improvement of current marketing strategy and manpower. The research was conducted mainly to examine the role of planning and forecasting in the business organization. For this reason, both primary and secondary data were used to elicit information from sample studied, the primary source...
INTRODUCTION:To research means to search again or to look very carefully or to search over and over again. It is necessary to search over and over again or to look very carefully because for every additional careful look at any phenomenon, one gains a better insight. Research can be considered as a systematic manner or procedure through which we try to arrive at a reality or a fact. It can therefore be defined as a systematic and intensive investigation geared towards a more complete know...
ABSTRACT The pride of educational system depends not just on the quantity but more importantly, on the quality of its products at all levels. The quality of the products in turn depends largely on the quality of the education that students receive in Secondary Schools and which is also dependent upon the standard of control that teachers and students enjoy. It has been observed that,the problem of inadequate and ineffective quality control has been responsible for producing students who rem...
ABSTRACT Over the years, there has been a high rate of business failure in both private and public sector . analysis and the review of the problem has shown that the provision of capital and technology alone cannot avert the situation. The situation can be change through a communal living. Establishment of co-operative society and there stay under the umbrella might contribute more to the efficient and effective management. This research project was done to determine the impact of co-opera...
ABSTRACT The study is aimed at examine the role of bank in the financing of agricultural production with a view of determining the part played by the Nigeria agricultural and rural development bank NACRDB as the apex agricultural lending institution in the state. The researcher aimed to examine the nature of problems inherent such as illiteracy, loan default, loan diversion, poor repayment, natural deserter etc. the general objectives of the study is to determine the contributions of (NACRDB...
ABSTRACT Every modern organization uses Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to capture, transmit, store, retrieve, manipulate and report information used in business processes. In most organization particularly medium and large size one. Information and Communication Technology needs are met through grant information systems. More recently, computer specialists have increasingly recognized that it is becoming increasingly difficult to meet all the information and communication n...
The Co-operative thrift and Credit Society is now in existence in many institutions of higher learning. Based on this, one might start to wonder what this research topic is all about, since such a programme is not a new one.All the same, the truth remains that the existence of Co-operative, Thrift and Credit Society in our higher institutions, one side is lower than the other, badly balanced. This is to say that its present existence concern itself with only a particular section of the in...
ABSTRACT The research work titled, “The Participation Of Women In Co-operatives In Enugu State (A Case Study Of Enugu North LGA And Ezeagu LGA Of Enugu State) was carried out by the researcher. Chapter one, deals with the introduction and the background of the study, statement of the problems, objectives of the study, research question, significance of the study, scope and limitation of the study are in the Chapter one. Chapter two deals with the review of past related literature with the...