This paper investigates the relationship between entrepreneurship development and poverty reducti... more This paper investigates the relationship between entrepreneurship development and poverty reduction in rural communities in Edo State Nigeria. Taro Yamani"s statistical technique was used to calculate the sample size of the population. Stratified random sampling was used to distribute the survey questionnaires, out of the 215 questions distributed to the respondents, only 211 were completed and returned back for data analysis. SPSS version 20 software were employed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to analyze the data and compare different population of mean existing within the groups and between the groups at five point-likert scale of strongly agreed, agree, undecided, disagree and strongly disagree. The result of analysis revealed that F-calculated (1270.644) is greater than F-tabulated (2.53) thereby rejecting the null hypothesis and accepts the alternative hypothesis that, there is significant relationship between entrepreneurship development initiative and poverty reduction in the rural areas in Edo State, Nigeria. The result of study also showed that entrepreneurship initiative has translated positively towards poverty reduction in rural communities through jobs creation, development of rural areas, establishment of small and medium size enterprises, youth empowerment through soft loan provided by federal government of President Good Luck Jonathan"s You-Win Program among others. The following recommendations were made; government of Nigeria should strengthen macroeconomic policies such as judiciary to prosecute corrupt government officials that loot government treasury. Secondly, government abandoned project should be recycled and resuscitated to avoid huge waste of resources and time wasted. Thirdly, there should be need for both government and private sector partnership through Private-Partnership Project (PPP) to complete most abandoned government projects such as skills and acquisition centres. This will help to achieve greater sustainability and economic growth in the country.
Entrepreneurship is an essential variable in the growth and development of any economy. The point... more Entrepreneurship is an essential variable in the growth and development of any economy. The point at which man stopped satisfying only his needs and accommodated the needs of others marked the real evolution of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship development has been gradually corresponding with the development of the human race and it has reinforced the emergence, proliferation and growth of small scale businesses in Nigeria. In the light of the above, this paper attempts to establish the impact of entrepreneurship evolution on the growth of small scale businesses in Nigeria by discussing the concept of entrepreneurship and its evolution in Nigeria, the concept of small scale business and efforts aimed at enhancing the growth of small scale businesses in Nigeria. The paper also x-rays the relationship between entrepreneurship evolution and the growth of small scale businesses in Nigeria. It was concluded in the paper that entrepreneurship evolution has positive correlation on the gr...
One of the major problems of food and beverage firms is the problem of mentoring and its resultan... more One of the major problems of food and beverage firms is the problem of mentoring and its resultant effect on succession planning. The broad objective of the study is to determine the type of relationship that exist between succession planning and organizational continuity in food and beverage firm in Anambra state, while the specific objective is to ascertain the type of relationship that exist between mentoring and organizational agility is selected food and beverage in Anambra state. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study, a total population of 470 was used for the study, and the Taro Yamane sampling technique was used in selecting the sample size of 216 employees. Questionnaire was used to collect data while analysis of data was done using Pearson product moment correlations coefficient. Findings revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between mentoring and organizational agility. Based on the findings the research concludes that talent re...
This study investigates the effect of collaboration between different organizations in the relief... more This study investigates the effect of collaboration between different organizations in the relief operation. This paper has identified three different agencies in the following; humanitarian organization (example, Kenyan Red Cross, World Food Program among others); Humanitarian Logistics (example, DHL); and Military Organization (such as guerrilla forces, national forces and international forces) cooperating together during relief operations. The study found that military organization and the humanitarian organization adopted postponement strategy as means of meeting with the demands of the beneficiaries during United Nations Peace Keeping Operations, Kenyan Post Election Crises, and Pakistan’ earthquake among others. The study also found that humanitarian logistics also adopted local and global sourcing strategy to develop procurement centres (where materials are sourced at better prices), to improve logistics services and build sophisticated technology used for online tracking and...
This study examined the implications of youth unemployment and violent crimes on the economic gro... more This study examined the implications of youth unemployment and violent crimes on the economic growth of Nigeria. The sample size was calculated using Taro Yamani‟s statistical technique. A sample of 272 persons was selected from the population of 147 business owners and 125 members of the national council of youth in Anambra state Nigeria and questionnaires were administered through simple random sampling to collect data for analysis. SPSS version 20 software was used for analysis using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to analyze the data and compare the different population of mean existing within the groups and between the groups at five-point Likert scale of strongly agreed, agree, undecided, disagree and strongly disagree. The result of hypothesis one indicated that when F-calculated value (1714.670) is greater than F tabulated value (2.53), decision rule was applied to rejects the null hypothesis and accept the alternative hypothesis that there exists a significant relationship bet...
The study examined conflict management and its influence on employee turnover. The objective of t... more The study examined conflict management and its influence on employee turnover. The objective of the study was to determine the relationship between conflict, management and employee turnover. The study employed descriptive survey design to generate data which were analyzed using product moment correlation coefficient, which establish the extent of correlation between two variables. Subject for the study were one hundred and eighty two. It was discovered that conflict management has a positive influence on employee turnover. Locating the core conflict helps management to seek for resolutions that work and management should concentrate on developing innovative, structural and procedural changes that encourage communications and a broad corporate focus
The study sought to determine how core competencies are employed during the performance managemen... more The study sought to determine how core competencies are employed during the performance management process of the selected private secondary schools in Port Harcourt. The need to ascertain whether these organizations employ their core competencies during their performance evaluation process led to this study. Survey research design was employed for the study. Two research questions were raised and one hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population of the study was 210 workers in the two private secondary schools that were selected for the study (Graceland International Secondary School and Blessed Children Academy High School). The entire population was used for the study. Structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The reliability of the instrument, tested through split-half method, were 0.61 and 0.71 for sections B and C respectively. Mean and Standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while Z-test was used to test the hypothesis....
Employment generation and poverty eradication can only be possible and successful if Nigerians wo... more Employment generation and poverty eradication can only be possible and successful if Nigerians would collectively embrace entrepreneurship education. Whenever, there is growth and development the agent of change has been entrepreneurship. The study tested hypotheses on the relationship between entrepreneurial education/training and poverty eradication. The study was based on a sample of 209 graduating students of Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro, Oghara and Ogwashi-uku. The research instrument was a questionnaire. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) technique was used to analyze the data. It was discovered that a higher proportion of Delta State Polytechnic students have entrepreneurial intention. The recommendations were made based on the research findings. Young men and women should be encouraged to be independent minded and be exposed to a worthy profession
This paper investigates the relationship between entrepreneurship development and poverty reducti... more This paper investigates the relationship between entrepreneurship development and poverty reduction in rural communities in Edo State Nigeria. Taro Yamani"s statistical technique was used to calculate the sample size of the population. Stratified random sampling was used to distribute the survey questionnaires, out of the 215 questions distributed to the respondents, only 211 were completed and returned back for data analysis. SPSS version 20 software were employed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to analyze the data and compare different population of mean existing within the groups and between the groups at five point-likert scale of strongly agreed, agree, undecided, disagree and strongly disagree. The result of analysis revealed that F-calculated (1270.644) is greater than F-tabulated (2.53) thereby rejecting the null hypothesis and accepts the alternative hypothesis that, there is significant relationship between entrepreneurship development initiative and poverty reduction in the rural areas in Edo State, Nigeria. The result of study also showed that entrepreneurship initiative has translated positively towards poverty reduction in rural communities through jobs creation, development of rural areas, establishment of small and medium size enterprises, youth empowerment through soft loan provided by federal government of President Good Luck Jonathan"s You-Win Program among others. The following recommendations were made; government of Nigeria should strengthen macroeconomic policies such as judiciary to prosecute corrupt government officials that loot government treasury. Secondly, government abandoned project should be recycled and resuscitated to avoid huge waste of resources and time wasted. Thirdly, there should be need for both government and private sector partnership through Private-Partnership Project (PPP) to complete most abandoned government projects such as skills and acquisition centres. This will help to achieve greater sustainability and economic growth in the country.
Entrepreneurship is an essential variable in the growth and development of any economy. The point... more Entrepreneurship is an essential variable in the growth and development of any economy. The point at which man stopped satisfying only his needs and accommodated the needs of others marked the real evolution of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship development has been gradually corresponding with the development of the human race and it has reinforced the emergence, proliferation and growth of small scale businesses in Nigeria. In the light of the above, this paper attempts to establish the impact of entrepreneurship evolution on the growth of small scale businesses in Nigeria by discussing the concept of entrepreneurship and its evolution in Nigeria, the concept of small scale business and efforts aimed at enhancing the growth of small scale businesses in Nigeria. The paper also x-rays the relationship between entrepreneurship evolution and the growth of small scale businesses in Nigeria. It was concluded in the paper that entrepreneurship evolution has positive correlation on the gr...
One of the major problems of food and beverage firms is the problem of mentoring and its resultan... more One of the major problems of food and beverage firms is the problem of mentoring and its resultant effect on succession planning. The broad objective of the study is to determine the type of relationship that exist between succession planning and organizational continuity in food and beverage firm in Anambra state, while the specific objective is to ascertain the type of relationship that exist between mentoring and organizational agility is selected food and beverage in Anambra state. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study, a total population of 470 was used for the study, and the Taro Yamane sampling technique was used in selecting the sample size of 216 employees. Questionnaire was used to collect data while analysis of data was done using Pearson product moment correlations coefficient. Findings revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between mentoring and organizational agility. Based on the findings the research concludes that talent re...
This study investigates the effect of collaboration between different organizations in the relief... more This study investigates the effect of collaboration between different organizations in the relief operation. This paper has identified three different agencies in the following; humanitarian organization (example, Kenyan Red Cross, World Food Program among others); Humanitarian Logistics (example, DHL); and Military Organization (such as guerrilla forces, national forces and international forces) cooperating together during relief operations. The study found that military organization and the humanitarian organization adopted postponement strategy as means of meeting with the demands of the beneficiaries during United Nations Peace Keeping Operations, Kenyan Post Election Crises, and Pakistan’ earthquake among others. The study also found that humanitarian logistics also adopted local and global sourcing strategy to develop procurement centres (where materials are sourced at better prices), to improve logistics services and build sophisticated technology used for online tracking and...
This study examined the implications of youth unemployment and violent crimes on the economic gro... more This study examined the implications of youth unemployment and violent crimes on the economic growth of Nigeria. The sample size was calculated using Taro Yamani‟s statistical technique. A sample of 272 persons was selected from the population of 147 business owners and 125 members of the national council of youth in Anambra state Nigeria and questionnaires were administered through simple random sampling to collect data for analysis. SPSS version 20 software was used for analysis using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to analyze the data and compare the different population of mean existing within the groups and between the groups at five-point Likert scale of strongly agreed, agree, undecided, disagree and strongly disagree. The result of hypothesis one indicated that when F-calculated value (1714.670) is greater than F tabulated value (2.53), decision rule was applied to rejects the null hypothesis and accept the alternative hypothesis that there exists a significant relationship bet...
The study examined conflict management and its influence on employee turnover. The objective of t... more The study examined conflict management and its influence on employee turnover. The objective of the study was to determine the relationship between conflict, management and employee turnover. The study employed descriptive survey design to generate data which were analyzed using product moment correlation coefficient, which establish the extent of correlation between two variables. Subject for the study were one hundred and eighty two. It was discovered that conflict management has a positive influence on employee turnover. Locating the core conflict helps management to seek for resolutions that work and management should concentrate on developing innovative, structural and procedural changes that encourage communications and a broad corporate focus
The study sought to determine how core competencies are employed during the performance managemen... more The study sought to determine how core competencies are employed during the performance management process of the selected private secondary schools in Port Harcourt. The need to ascertain whether these organizations employ their core competencies during their performance evaluation process led to this study. Survey research design was employed for the study. Two research questions were raised and one hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population of the study was 210 workers in the two private secondary schools that were selected for the study (Graceland International Secondary School and Blessed Children Academy High School). The entire population was used for the study. Structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The reliability of the instrument, tested through split-half method, were 0.61 and 0.71 for sections B and C respectively. Mean and Standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while Z-test was used to test the hypothesis....
Employment generation and poverty eradication can only be possible and successful if Nigerians wo... more Employment generation and poverty eradication can only be possible and successful if Nigerians would collectively embrace entrepreneurship education. Whenever, there is growth and development the agent of change has been entrepreneurship. The study tested hypotheses on the relationship between entrepreneurial education/training and poverty eradication. The study was based on a sample of 209 graduating students of Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro, Oghara and Ogwashi-uku. The research instrument was a questionnaire. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) technique was used to analyze the data. It was discovered that a higher proportion of Delta State Polytechnic students have entrepreneurial intention. The recommendations were made based on the research findings. Young men and women should be encouraged to be independent minded and be exposed to a worthy profession
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