Abstract Background: During the last few decades, Egypt experienced rapid socio-cultural changes that were associated with major changes in the food choices and eating habits, which becomes more westernized. Aims: To investigate the consumption of different food groups among secondary school students and its associated socio-demographic factors in Mansoura, Egypt. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted on 927 adolescent students. Thirty clusters were selected to cover both g...
ABSTRACTThe study sought to determine the effect of internal control system on financial performance of manufacturing firms in Kenya. To achieve the objective of this study, the study used hypothesis testing research design. The study tested the following hypotheses: H1: Internal Controls and Financial Performance are positively related; H2: Internal Controls have a significant impact on Financial Performance. The population chosen for this study was 65 manufacturing firms registered by...
ABSTRACTThe College of Business and Economics (CBE) is one of the higher learning institutions whichenables its students to carry out their internship in various organizations for purpose of not onlyto sustain them with employment environment in the future but also gain experience in thedomain and this concern the level five students have to conduct the internship attachment andmake a report on after completion.Then, it is in these views that as an undergraduate student in level five, man...
ABSTRACTThis project studied the cause of disparity between male and female enrolment in Enugu State College of Education (Technical) Enugu.Chapter one the research population comprised student and lecturers of Enugu State College of Education (Technical) Enugu from three schools namely, school of business education, science education and technical education. The population prompted the researcher to regard the entire population as the sample.The questionnaire was the major instrument used. I...
This paper examines the interface between diversity and industrial relations and how the impinges on the development of Nigeria and in Europe. Underlying the magnitude of the problems and the challenges in managing diversity in industrial relation systems in work environment. The paper highlights some of the sources of diversity and industrial relations and human resource implications of diversity. The paper explores the similarities and differences between Industrial relations practice and w...
Abstract Discrimination is one of the most controversial phenomena to challenge the Human Resources (HR) function in the workplace. Gender issues are such phenomenon in Nigerian society, which has serious implications for both human and national development. Gender discrimination turns the employees emotionally brittle, simple peace loving employees transform into paranoid and suspicious, fearful and angry individuals. Therefore, this study was undertaken to examine gender issues and women ad...
INTRODUCTION In manufacturing industries it is the material flow in the shop floor decides its productivity. In this process material handling system plays a key role in influencing productivity, throughput time and product cost. In the manufacturing industries productivity is highly influenced by the efficiency of the working human resource along with the tools or operating equipments. Material handling is the most critical and the integral part of production and operations mana...
INTRODUCTION Any business unit that wants to survive must make the right decision. The era of mile of thumb is gone; employing it is a sure way to fail absurdly. The price of any conceivable item from garri and bread to radio and book not to mention petrol has been soaring in geometric proportions over the years. The economy is truly in distress. These compounds and complicates, intricate the problems of most organisation and their effective planning and decision making processes. Other fa...
ABSTRACT This research work if carefully read will educate all small scale business on profit realization as a result of capital investment and it also state clearly how relevant small scale business is toward the development of this country, questionnaires where raise3d and the respondents were of the opinion that capital investment really affect the profit of small scale business and conclusions were drawn that indeed acquiring fixed asset is good for the profi...
ABSTRACT Since the evolution of civilization, the human society has attained an unintentional stratification into two unequal classes of people; the few ruling leadership and the vast masses of ruled people. It is however no secret that the few ruling class, otherwise called the elite have continually dominated every sector of the society, passing the baton of control from one elite to another. This study was undertaken to examine the circulation of elites in Nigeria, with particular referenc...
ABSTRACT The coordinated attacks on September 11,2001 on the United States of America masterminded by Osama Bin Laden, made the word terrorism become a ‘global household’ name throughout the world. In the past, terrorism was said to have evolved as a direct consequence of the United States and Russia (former Soviet Union) foreign policies towards the world. Now the concept of domestic terrorism which has a long history in developing countries as emerged to become a cliché. Hence, variou...
ABSTRACTThe study examined the impact of inventory management on service delivery in public health facilities. The objectives of the study were to examine the inventory management techniques, to assess the ways through which inventory management influences service, and to establish the challenges faced in implementing inventory management techniques employed at Kidera health Centre III. The methodology involved the use of a cross sectional research designs which employed the use of both qua...
A brief analysis of the prospect of a Computer Based Testing method in Minna Niger State.
ABSTRACT Today, information technology (IT) has become a key element in economic development and a backbone of knowledge-based economies in terms of operations, quality delivery of services and productivity of services. Therefore, taking advantage of information technologies (IT) is an increasing challenge for developing countries. There is now growing evidence that Knowledge-driven innovation is a decisive factor in the competitiveness of nations, industries, organizations and firms. Orga...
AbsractThis discussion paper is concerned with entrepreneurship and the development of small andmediumsized enterprises (SME) in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, wherethe transition from a socialist command economy towards a marketbased system opened upenormous possibilities for private entrepreneurs. Since the early 1990s, private entrepreneurshipgained ground, and the same applies to research on new and small enterprises [e.g., Aidis (2003,2006), Aidis et al. (2007), Djankov et...