WORK GROUP MANAGEMENT AND ITS IMPERATIVES ON TEAM MEMBERS’ PERFORMANCE AND DEVELOPMENT

Bunmi Gabriel Ogunshola, & Taiwo Adewale Shobande

Department of Business Administration,

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye. Ogun State

Email: angeliclineonline@yahoo.com, taiwoshobande@hotmail.com

Abstract: Managing organization and developing managerial competency of employees could be time and resource consuming, however, organization that intends to keep a top flight and secure its competitiveness cannot but make this a priority, hence, recent innovations in organizational practices and management style, intended towards driving organizational performance by enhancing employee productivity, developing managerial competencies and leadership potentials, resulting in the adoption of relatively new models of employee management style by adopting a team model to work-place management. This study examines how the management of work group influences performance and personal development of employees. Respondents were selected from the Call Centers of one of Nigeria’s leading telecommunication outfit and administered questionnaire, 110 of the responses were analyzed to arrive at the findings of this research work using a mixture of Regression and correlation analysis and Chi square . The findings revealed that there is significant relationship between team leaders’ management style and team performance, and that individual performance is significantly related to their propensity for self-development, it was also discovered that the group management style impact the process of building employees’ leadership skills and personal development.

Keyword: Work Group, Team, Tele-density, Employee Performance, Self Development, Productivity

NIGERIA’S NATIONAL UNITY VERSUS REGIONAL POLITICAL TENDENCIES: ASSESSING THE TENABILITY OF REMAINING TOGETHER

Joshua Timothy                                                                               

Department of Political Science,

Wesley University, Ondo, Ondo State.

Email: joshua_timothy84@yahoo.com. Josday37@gmail.com

Abstract: History is replete about instances in which two or more ethnic groups have come together with a desire to live and be governed by the same political administration. Although there have always been ethnic tensions at the beginning, these groups have often found a common ground that helped them to tolerate one another, and this has been positively exploited by some countries, such that they were able to see and tap into the enormous strength in their ethnic diversities. Nigeria, a country in the Western Sahara, is blessed with several ethnicities, but they have struggled unsuccessfully to live together as one country, due to ethnic chauvinism, which has been exploited by the political class so blatantly, that it has become commonplace for citizens to vote on ethnic lines during general elections. This paper assesses the historical coexistence between the various ethnicities in Nigeria, with a particular emphasis being placed on the reasons why they have found it difficult to live together. It further analyses the tenability of the forced amalgamation in the face of daunting events which point to uneasy coexistence. Having dissected the above, this paper recommends some policy alternatives, which, if adopted, will solve most of the problems militating against Nigeria’s unity.

Keywords: Ethnicity, Diversities, Union, Constitution, Regionalism, Primordialism, Instrumentalism, Coup d’état, Colonialism.

Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Joshua Timothy (2017), Nigeria’s National Unity Versus Regional Political Tendencies:  Assessing the Tenability of Remaining Together. J. of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Vol. 9, Number 3, Pp. 76-91

EFFECT OF BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY ON WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN AGRICULTURE ACTIVITIES IN JERE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF BORNO STATE, NIGERIA

¹Baba Gana Alimi & ²Bintu Kachallah Galadima

¹Department of Social Services, Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri, Borno State. Nigeria.

²Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Maiduguri, Borno State. Nigeria.

Email: bgalimi2@gmail.com

Abstract: This paper examined the effect of women participation in agricultural activities and further investigated whether the emergence of Boko Haram insurgency in 2009 had serious negative effects on the active participation of women in agricultural sector in Jere Local Government Areas of Borno State. The study obtained a sample size of (60) sixty respondents and all were women spreaded across five (5) villages, that includes: Addamari; Zabbarmari; Amaramanti; Gongulon Lawanti; and Nguddo. All the respondents were selected using simple random sampling techniques and structured questionnaire on the subject. An explanatory research design was applied in order to get sufficient information under investigation. A statistical data of simple frequency distribution and percentages coupled with chi-square analysis was used to understand the facts about the phenomena examined through the respondents responses. The researchers decline figures to appears in the work but extensively discussed. The study revealed that the emergence of Boko Haram has paralyzed the agricultural activities and seriously affected the women role and their participation in the agricultural activities and agro-allied businesses. The respondents appreciates the efforts of Borno State Government and some International Non-government Organization (INGO’s) for their supports.

THE 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND THE FUTURE OF NIGERIA DEMOCRACY

Moses .M. Adagbabiri, & Ugo .C. Okolie

Department of Political Science, Delta State University Abraka, Nigeria.

Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria, Edo State Study Centre, Benin, Benin City, Nigeria.

Email: adagbabirimoses@gmail.com, Ugookolie2@gmail.com

Abstract

In the eve of transition from the military authoritarian regime, democracy was packaged by the apostles of democratization, both domestic and international, to Nigerians as a sine qua-non for development. Hence with the return to civil rule on May 29, 1999, the mantra of dividends of democracy which soon fizzled out became the populist political rhetoric. The hope for economic, social and political justice, popular empowerment, development and better life with the advent of democracy provoked was supplanted by injustice, disempowerment, insecurity, maladministration, poverty, indignities, backwardness and under development (Odukoya, 2015). Nigerians have become devalued, underdeveloped and victims of a flawed democracy. Africa is democratizing but the democratization occurring in African does not appear to be in the least emancipator. On the contrary, it is legitimizing the disempowerment of ordinary people who seen to be worse off than they used to be because their political oppression is no longer perceived as a problem inviting  solution, but a solution endowed with moral and political legitimacy (Ake, 1994). The 2015 general elections was in several respects a historical watershed in Nigeria. The elections took place against the background of important but debilitating factors namely: The presidency challenge, security threats and election postponement, opposition merger, the  expiration of tenure, intemperate political rhetoric, sanctity and independence of the electoral administration/ process, states where incumbents were not returning, proliferations of arms and privatization of security, state capacity to checkmate violence, nomination of candidates etc. These factors are strongly affecting democratic stability and consolidation. The analysis of the above factors is the mainstream of this paper.Keywords: Democracy, Election, Electoral Democracy, Democratization

FISCAL FEDERALISM AND UNEMPLOYMENT REDUCTION IN DEMOCRATIC ECONOMIES: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA (1999-2015)

Matthew J. Kromtit¹; Gideon G. Goshit¹, & Adakai F. Amayah²

¹Department of Economics, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria.

²Department of Political Science, University of Jos, Nigeria

Email: kromtitm1@gmail.com; kromtitm@unijos.edu.ng

Abstract

The Nigerian federal system over the years is beset by a lingering lopsidedness in revenue allocation among the three tiers of government-Federal, State and Local Governments amidst the debate whether the public or private sectors should be the major driver of the economy given rising unemployment. Therefore, this study aims at investigating the causal relationship between the statutory allocations to the levels of government, and unemployment in the country and estimating their contribution to unemployment reduction since the return to democracy in 1999. By using the Granger Causality Technique, the result shows that independence is suggested between Federal, State and local governments’ allocations and unemployment in Nigeria at 5% level of significance. The Ordinary Least Squares was used to determine the impact of federation allocations to various tiers on unemployment. The result indicates that while the Federal and State Governments’ impact positively on unemployment, the local Governments’ impact is negative. A 1% increase in federal allocation to the federal and states government would respectively lead to 118.17% and 11.06% increase in unemployment    while Local Governments would have a greater reduction of 54.76% in unemployment; The study concludes that the relationship between fiscal federalism and unemployment reduction in Nigeria is significant. It is thus recommended that more revenue should be allocated to Local Governments; Federal and State Governments levels should be more efficient in the allocation of funds; and a greater synergy should be promoted between the levels of government as well as between government and the private sector so as to help reduce unemployment in Nigeria.

Keywords: Fiscal Federalism, Democracy, Unemployment and Nigeria.

TERRORISM AND BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY IN NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC: A PROGNOSIS

Moses M. Adagbabiri & Ugo C. Okolie

Department of Political Science, Delta State  University Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria.

Chartered Institute of personnel management of Nigeria, Edo State Branch Study centre, Benin City, Nigeria.

E-mail: adagbabiri@delsu.ng, Ugookolie2@gmail.com

Abstract

Since the emergence of the nascent democracy in 1999, the contemporary Nigeria Society has been engulfed by terrible acts of terrorism. The Country which had hitherto been one of the most relatively peaceful in Africa has been deeply enmeshed and suffused in political and ethno-religious conflicts characterized by genocidal attacks, bombing, maiming and killings of several persons, loss of business investments, and properties worth several billions of naira. These acts of terrorism have seriously caused untold hardship to the Nigerian populace. Terrorism has been a global menace which affects economic, political and social status of the country experiencing it. Since the inception of the president Goodluck Jonathan Political regime, Boko Haram has been disrupting and destabilizing government activities mainly in Northern Nigeria. The political implication of terrorism has been deadly in Nigerian democratic governance. The challenges of terrorism and insecurity have been traumatizing president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in Nigeria while many political gladiators hide under the Siege of Boko Haram insurgency in terrorizing existing political regime in Nigeria which makes it difficult to actualize governmental policies and programmes in Nigeria. It would seem that democracy has increased the culture of impunity in some people while political differences are believed to have fueled some of the violence that have erupted. The discourse of the argument put forward in this paper is that contemporary terrorism in Nigeria is a product of prolonged failure of the Nigerian state to show characteristics or fulfill the purposes accepted as normal or beneficial to the totality of her citizens. The thrust decimal of flawed political and ethno-religious conflicts with a view to pinpointing its nature, causes and proffering solutions for Nigeria’s democracy to thrive.