BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Today’s increasingly competitive business world means that a highly-motivated workforce is vital for any organization seeking to achieve the best results. Many firms are moving away from the “command and control” approach towards the “advice and consent” method as a preferable way of motivating staff. This shift in attitude began when employers recognized that rewarding good work is more effective than punitive measures for poor work. Different people are mot...
ABSTRACT Many studies have been conducted on decision making, but little has been known about participatory decision making as an essential ingredient in the quest for better organizational management. Research has shown that participatory decision making contribute to better decisions and strategies. Thus, this paper is an attempt to investigate the influence of participatory decision making in Wema Bank Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State branch. The subordinate aim is to find out if employees of the Bank...
INTRODUCTION The concept and theories of and productivity has always been a central problem for leaders and managers, this is because of the relative importance and effect of motivation to productivity in an organization. Unmotivated employees are likely to spend little or no effort on their jobs, avoid workplace as much as possible, exit the organization if given the opportunity and produce low quality product on the other hand employees who feel motivated to work are likely to be persistent...
ABSTRACT This study examined strike actions and the achievement of aims in Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Uyo,Akwa Ibom State. The broad objective of this study was to examine the relationship between strike actions and the achievement of aims in ASUU, in terms of its effectiveness and using it to draw a conclusion on how far strike actions has helped the union in the achievement of its aims. The population of the study was the entire academic staffs of the University of ...
INTRODUCTION Nowadays purchasing trends are changing from small retail stores to mega store and departmental stores, the buyers are moving to mega stores and undergo different experience and stop depending on old traditional small retail stores.While on the one other hand these mega stores adopt various strategies to offer different experience to the customers with variety of ranges in brands, size and quantity under one roof. Success at one stage does not ensure continued success, as custo...
CHAPTER ONE 1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.2STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS 1.3RESEARACH QUESTIONS 1.4STATEMENT OF HYPOTHESIS 1.5OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY 1.6SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1THEORETICAL LITERATURE REVIEW 2.2EMPIRICAL LITERATURE REVIEW CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY 3.1SOURCE OF DATA 3.2SPECIFICATION OF MODEL 3.3METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS CHAPTER FOUR DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS 4.1INTRODUCTION 4.2DATA PRESENTATION 4.3DATA ANALYSIS 4.4TEST OF HYPO...
AbstractThis research study appraised the impact of the Banking Sector Reforms on the Real Sector of the Nigerian Economy for the period 1986 to 2009. Data on real sector output, credit to the real sectors, lending rate and interest rate on savings were obtained from the CBN Statistical Bulletin (2009 edition). The data were analysed using Ordinary Least Square (OLS) technique. The result of the analysis revealed that financial sector reforms were effective in addressing the twin problems of ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUUCTIOM 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY 1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY 1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 1.5 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY 1.6 RESEARCH QUESTION 1.7 DEFINATION OF TERMS 2.0 CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 IMPORTANT OF CASH MANAGEMENT 2.2 THE PROBLEM OF LITTLE CASH IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SMALL SCALE BUSINESS 2.3 FUNCTION OF CASH MANAGEMENT 2.4 MOTIVES FOR HOLDING CASH 2.5 REASON FOR HOLDING ...
ABSTRACT The Treasury Single Account (TSA) was recently implemented fully in the Nigerian economy by the present government in order to ensure prudence and probity in the management of financial resources. With the TSA government expects to block all loopholes and leakages of financial resources of the government and also ensure a robust financial management system. The paper therefore provides the conceptual meaning of the TSA and also gives its expected benefits to the economy of Nigeria su...
ABSTRACT The study examined the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Nigeria over the period 1980 to 2010. The study employed multiple regressions in analysis, using the ordinary least square (OLS) regression technique. The result at this revealed that FDI impacted positively on the growth of the Nigeria economy over the period under study. Europe and the far east. The study examines an analysis of the impact of foreign direct investment on Nigeria’s economic growth over the period ...
ABSTRACT Substance abuse is a social problem that has spread and increased rapidly in our educational institutions even in secondary schools but especially among the under graduate students in Nigeria, this social mal adaptation is considered an issue of serious concern as it adversely affects the lives and performance of students involved as well as the harmonious functioning of the entire structure of the society the theoretical framework used in the study is mso-fareast-font-family:"Time...
Abstract This study examined corruption as a main plague of Nigerian Civil Service; The Analysis in Retrospect. Hermeneutics model of Analytical Conceptual pattern was adopted for this study. It deduces its facts from literature on records of activities proceeding of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) (which are the main anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria) and data from Transparency International on corruption. This st...
Abstract The relation between Nigeria and china has grown so much in recent years. This relation is governed by agreements which cut across political, trade, investment, aid, technical and military. The implementation of these agreements is uneven as China is strategically on the advantage side and Nigeria perpetually on the disadvantaged position. Therefore, the study examines the key features and patterns of the economic relations between Nigeria and China in order to establish an underst...
ABSTRACTThis research work examined the impact of commercial Bank credit on Agricultural output in Nigeria using Macroeconomic variables (commercial bank credit and agricultural output). The broad objective of the study is to investigate the extent to which commercial bank credit had supported agricultural output Nigeria. The specific objectives are: (i) to determine the impact of commercial banks credit on agricultural output in Nigeria, and (i) to determine the impact of agricultural output...
ABSTRACT The study is made up of two independent models, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Investment respectively. The independent variables Oil export, Non-oil export, Real exchange rate and Inflation rate were modeled to capture their effect on GDP and Investment respectively. The study employed Log Linear Model. Follo...