INTRODUCTION The complexity and sophistication of business decision making requires strategic management and planning skills. Managing various and multi-faceted internal activities is only part of the modern executive’s responsibilities. The firm’s immediate external environment poses a second set of challenging factors. This environment includes competitors, suppliers of increasingly scarce resources, government agencies monitoring adherence to ...
INTRODUCTION Motivation is a human psychological characteristic that contributes to a person's degree of commitment (Stoke, 1999). The Concept of motivation has therefore led different scholars in research about ‘motivation’. Some scholars were able to come out with their theories of what motivation is, types of motivation and factors of motivation. This paper shall attempt to examine the different types of motivation theories as propounded by different scholarsINTRODUCTION Mo...
.ABSTRACT Economic integration (EI), which is an embodiment of custom unions, tradeblocs, and free trade area, has the ultimate aim of promoting tradeparticipation of Members and in the long-run enhancing economicperformance and welfare of their citizenry. Economic Integration cannotoperate in a vacuum, it requires some sort of components such as transportand communication...
ABSTRACT Boko Haram has been evolving in north-eastern Nigeria for over a decade. An extremely violent Islamist movement, it has in 2014 entered a new transitional phase. The inability of Nigeria’s armed forces to obstruct its onslaught, combined with a higher international profile, have lent it a confidence and ambition that appear to have prompted increasingly strategic behaviour, alongside its ongoing indiscriminate and widespread attacks against civilian and stat...
ABSTRACT Effective strategic thinking requires a clear understanding of one’s external environment. Therefore, looking at the Nigerian environment of the 21st century, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the Nights of some African Countries e.g. Ghana, is safer and more secure than the day in Nigeria (over 200 girls were kidnapped in Chibok in April 2014 in broad daylight). It is no news anymore that the state of security in Nigeria is in a deplorable condition...
OVERVIEW (UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF LEADERSHIP) “It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” Nelson Mandela (1990) Gary Yukl (2006) defines leadership as “the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the process of facilitating individual and coll...
ABSTRACT The main thrust of the study was to examine the role of education in ensuring gender equality and its effect in the society. Specifically, the study was set out to find out how education has changed values and promote gender equality, determine how sex segregation in education is a risk to the society among others. Five research questions and five hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Relevant literature were reviewed. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study an...
In the singular search for profits, some corporations inadvertently kill humans. If this routinely occurs throughout an industry, it may no longer serve a net positive social purpose for society and should be eliminated. This article provides a path to an objective quantifiable metric for determining when an entire industry warrants the corporate death penalty. First, a theoretical foundation is developed with minimum assumptions necessary to provide evidence for corporate public purposes. Th...
This article focuses on one of the challenges that the Nigeria economy has to contend with presently which is the enamours number of Nigerians who are qualified educational and wish to work but unfortunately are unable to find any meaningful employment if not at all for themselves. This and many more are at the centre of my exploration, its implication and its concomitant dilemma in contemporary Nigeria life
This paper aims at discussing the relevance of mother tongue in achieving a constructivists’ classroom environment at the Primary education level in Nigeria. Philosophical research methodology was employed in this study. The study reveals that the relevance of mother tongue as a medium for instruction includes increase access to instruction and equity, improve learning outcome, socio-cultural benefits such as sustainability of acceptable social values and norms, lower costs of education and...
Abstract This study focuses on school climate and teacher commitment of selected high schools in Taungdwingyi Township. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the relationship between school climate and teacher commitment in selected high schools. The subjects of this study involved all teachers who have had at least one year service in selected schools. Quantitative research method was used in this study. For quantitative study, Organizational Climate Index (OCI) developed by Hoy...
ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between class size and effective teachers class management in Oredo Local Government Areal of Edo state. To carry out the research, three (3) research questions were raised and turned into hypothesis to guide the study. The study was a descriptive research that employed the ex-post-facto research design. The study population consisted of one-hundred (100) teachers and students drawn from four schools...
Public relations consultancy provides specified public relations technical services which an organization cannot provide as a result of limited time, shortage of staff or lack of public relations department. Thus, this article defines public relations consultancy services; identifies specialized services that are rendered; states why we render the services, mention how the school management can maximize the benefits of consultancy services and manage the challenges therein.
Public relations practice involves a planned programme of activities. This is called public relations process: It includes research, planning, communication, and evaluation. In this article, you will read about public relations research in the school system, Public relations campaign and impact of the public relations programmes on its publics.
The school public relations department can be a task or scope structured. This is a function of school size and operations. In this article, you will read about the features of each of the structures, requirements of public relations department and domains of the public relations department or unit in the school system. The school public relations officer is a manager by status and information officer by function. You will read about the roles of a school public relations officer in the schoo...