Behavior Pathology on Gender Issues in Nigeria Banks Employment: Myths and Realities

The paper examined the myths and realities on gender issues in Nigeria banks employment. The study collected data from a sample of 648 employees of deposit money bank headquarters in Port Harcourt. The research data were treated to primary analysis involving descriptive statistics of respondents’ demographics and workplace factors concerning workers outcomes. The demographics were presented in pie charts, while the workplace factors were presented in their mean scores. The study perceived that the discrimination in banks employment, which is in favour of young unmarried girls, is a mere response to societal sex-role creation in feminism and masculinism, clothed in corporate immorality. This is perceived to be strong in generating sex appeal, coquetry, flattery, and pandering to male egoism. The paper thus suggested a three phase model to reduce the expanding margin in the gender dichotomy in banks employment. Keywords: Gender Issues, Bank Employment, Sex Roles, Feminism, Masculinism, Behaviour Pathology and Corporate Immorality. DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/11-8-05 Publication date:March 31st 201

Perspectives on Human Nature and Implications for Research in the Behavioural Sciences

This paper examined the perspectives of human behaviour as a precursor to determine the methodological preference for inquiry into the knowledge of its complex and intricate nature. The paper identified some fundamental taxonomies of action, expressed in human action, social action, purposive action, environmentally constrained action, and emergent process action. These constitute perspectives on action that are broadly categorized into prospective and retrospective perspectives on action. The prospective view holds that meaning of action is constructed and known before the action, while the retrospective perspective presupposes that meaning of action can only be constructed and known after the action. However, the bipolar views tend to elicit different methodologies from opposing intellectual domains. The paper contended that for the sake of robust social knowledge, mixed methods defined in methodological pluralism should be adopted in inquiry related to the behavioural sciences

Corporate Philanthropy as Firms’ Survival Strategic Behaviour in South-South Nigeria

The environment of the business enterprise has become increasingly turbulent and less predictable. This is amidst the element of violence, particularly in the Niger Delta, South-South Nigeria. The paper identify the survival strategic behavior of the firm in the context of the volatile environment created by political dynamics and government inability to provide the basic social amenities necessary for existence. The proximity of most of firms to host communities has almost put such firms at the frontline of host community demands and violence. Thus, corporate strategic philanthropy has become firms’ survival strategy, as the firms become de facto government. Keywords: Corporate Philanthropy, Strategic Philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Firm’s Survival Behaviour, Quasi-Philanthropy, Bottom-Line Mentality, Strategic Altruism

Effects of Organizational Structure on Employee Resilience

The uncertainties triggered by external environment require that there is no one best way of designing the structure of the organisation rather it is dependent on the circumstance and resilience capacity to withstand the threats. The purpose of this study therefore is to investigate the effects of organisational structure on employee resilience in manufacturing companies in Nigeria using cross-sectional survey. Ten manufacturing companies were selected using simple random sampling. 132 validated questionnaires were distributed to the participants. It was found that organisational structure has positive significant effect on employee resilience. The study concludes that organisational structure measured in terms of centralization, formalization and complexity enhances the resilience consciousness of employees in the organisation. The implication of this study is that managers of manufacturing companies as well as policy makers should employed organisational structure that will accommodate uncertainties, threats and other changes from the external business environment by ensuring that their resilient capacity is very strong to withstand such disruptions