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Effectiveness of Cooperatives in Coffee Value Chain: An Analysis in Sasiga District of Oromia Region, Ethiopia

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...

CHALLENGES OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR NON-MARKETING STAFF IN NIGERIAN BANKS

       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...

Evaluating The Role of Planning and Forcasting in Achieving Managerial Efficiency

        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...

Ghost Workers: How They Thrive on Nigerian Public Service: (A case study of Abuja Municipal Area Council)

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 ...

The role of planning and forecasting in business organisation

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...

Discussing The Research Process

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...

THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF FALLING STANDARD OF EDUCATION AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN GWAGWALADA AREA COUNCIL.

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...

THE STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF THE ORGNS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CROP IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF THE COOPERATIVE FEDERATION OF ANAMBRA STATE)

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...

THE ROLE OF NARDB IN THE FINANCING OF AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVES SOICETY IN NGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF NARDB ENUGU)

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...

THE ROLE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) ON ORGANIZATION PERFORMANCE (A CASE STUDY OF FIDELITY BANK PLC. OGUI ROAD, ENUGU)

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 POTENTIALS FOR A CO-OPERATIVE THRIFT CREDIT SOCIETY IN A HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION (A CASE STUDY OF I.M.T, ENUGU)

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...

THE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN CO-OPERATIVES IN ENUGU STATE (A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU NORTH LGA AND EZEAGU LGA OF ENUGU STATE)

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...

THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING CO-OPERATIVE ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT IN INSTITUTIONS

ABSTRACT Co-operative Economics and Management in tertiary institutions help to improve the co-operative growth and development, quality manpower in co-operative. The importance of studying co-operative in schools and tertiary institutions could as well known as co-operative education and is at the heart of co-operative for work motivation, growth, development, commitments in co-operative because is said that once a co-operative is always a co-operative. Despite these, many co-operatives ha...

THE IMPORTANCE OF IMPROVING AGREICULTURE PRODUCTION THROUGH CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES (A CASE STUDY OF ANIOCHA L.G.A, ANAMBRA STATE

ABSTRACT Agriculture is a science or practice of cultivating the land the keeping or breeding animal for food and for the promotion of the countries economy. The importance of improving Agricultural production through Co-operative Society especially in Anambra State, is their source of earning food and money for their survival, both man and animal around.  It is also provision of  raw materials for the Agro-based Industries, which helps in the production facilities programmes. Co-operat...

EFFECTIVE INVENTORY CONTROL AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING AN ORGANIZATION PERFORMANCE (A CASE STUDY OF EEDC)

ABSTRACT  This research project is conducted on effective inventory control as a means of improving and organizations performance A case study of EEDC The research was prompted by the researchers believe of the indispensable role an inventory that is properly controlled can play in gearing up the profit of an organization in any given accounting period with the increasing high cost of production attributable to scarcity of raw-material.  It has therefore become necessary that an ex...


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