The Positioning Women and Viable Development in Nigeria

Women constitute the majority of humanity, being about 56% of the total of the 6 billion on earth. The problem of unequal access to social benefits by women received global attention when the United Nations declared the period 1975-1985 as the decade for women. There was also a special conference on women held in Beijing, China in 1995 to access improvement on the life of women. A consciousness has been developing nationally that unless something is done to politically empower women, as an interest group, and to combat poverty amongst them by creating incomes and wealth, the entire development of the country stands mortgaged. Women have gone through notable development phases in human history. Poverty has a woman face since 70% of people in poverty are women

PROMOTING OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP QUALITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: NEW CHALLENGES FOR AN EMERGING DEMOCRACY AND INCLUSIVENESS IN AFRICA.

Leadership has become an intellectual issue, a socio-political, cultural and economic development challenge in Africa. This is because of what Africa countries and economies have missed in terms of the emergence, practice and benefits derivable from outstanding leadership qualities expected from African leaders and elites for a rigorous and effectively driven implementation of sustainable political-economic, national, and millennium development. The paper examines the urgent need for the promotion of truly outstanding leadership qualities among African leaders at all levels for overcoming the challenges of emerging democracy, inclusion and sustainable development in Africa. Relevant literature on conceptual and theoretical frameworks on outstanding leadership qualities, the standard form of Western democracy autochthonous, the kind of democracy Africa needs, sustainable development practices in Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. The findings reveal that the persistent dearth and failure of leadership qualities among African political and elitist leaders. As regards policy implications the emergence of outstanding leidership qualities among these leaders constitutes the best practices approach in overcoming impedrments to cost beneficial, democratic systems, the practice of good governance for the required masses oriented, empowerment, inclusive democratic systems and sustainable development for African Countries

ROLE OF STRATEGIC HR IN ENHANCING GOOD GOVERNANCE AND EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT FOR IN NIGERIA

Good government and effective public sector management by means of strategic and critical official human resources and practices are major requirements for overcoming economic recession and relighting sustainable national development. The study examined the role strategic human resource management could play in the actualization of good governance and .. public management: especially under economic recession in Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive and theoretical approach by reviewing studies and propositions in comparative 0 ° 0 public administration and management across· nation -states. The· study showed· that good · ·. governance and public management, overcoming recession and running with sustainable national development correlate the strong institutionalization of strategic human resource practices in the Nigerian federal,.stat'e and local go~ernmental systems and processes. That is, for the achievement of optimum public service delivery, productivity, popular involvement, and corresponding political power and legitimacy, transformative of general standard of living of Nigeria. The study also showed that to adequately improve on the decision processes outcomes, there is the urgent need for the application of international best practices, highly institutionalized differentiated, achievement oriented, perfmmance centric, specialized and professionalized government staff, systems institutions and processes. The study recommended that the country invest in and step up strategic human capital management and development of public administrators, managers and officials, who are professional.ized, honest and transparent, candid innovative with high and competences and highly capable of critical thinking (out of box). These are the major ways of launching the country out of economic recession and on the path of rapid and sustainable growth and development

Impact of Organizational Change to Achieve Competitive Edge

The purpose of this paper is to analyze that organization which changes its ways of doing things an or before time is either better able to achieve competitive edge. A model is design based on the literature, linking factors of organizational change to achieve competitive edge. The literature and various studies concluded that factors: employee empowerment, leadership style and culture at workplace play an essential role in achieving edge in hyper competitive environment when any changes occur in the organization. More the employee empowered, leader's communication and flexible organizational culture supports positively towards organizational change. The study focuses on the practice and observance of the three central factors, employee empowerment, leadership style and organizationtJ/ culture for enhancing positive organizational change that gives the organizations competitive ed9e relative to others. The organizations should design their rules, policies and organizational structures that give space to work well and appreciate them on their tasks fulfillment and achievements. This will surely lead to organizational growth

GLOBALIZATION AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS SYSTEM IN NIGERIA

Abstract: Globalization has a major impact on the management of human resources in developing countries including Nigeria. With accelerating globalization organizations have had to change and new trends have set in even in the industrial relations system and the management of. .human .resources . . The fundamental .. issue . addressed. .in . this . .paper . .is .. the extent to which Nigeria has restructured her industrial and trade systems for effective industrialisation within the on-going trade globalisation process. Globalization can therefore be said to have had a phenomenal impact on a developing economy like Kenya that is both positive and negative as explored in the paper

Trade Union and Conflict Resolution in the Public Sector

This paper discusses the review of literature related to the subject of the role of trade union in conflict resolution. It is embarked upon in order to know the position of experts and the direction of research. The literature review covers areas that include industrial relations, the trade union, conflict and conflict resolution, causes of industrial conflict in the public sector, conflict resolution mechanisms. The paper argues that Industrial conflicts expressed in lil'hatever form pose cost to all industrial relations actors. It recommends that government should engage the union early enough on all issues that may likely affect the workers. The Unions should also engage their members early enough to obtain their mandate, buy-in and understanding. Both parties should work together to resolve issues fairly, effectively and expeditiously. The paper concludes that the quality of labour-management relations in any organisation determine whether the enterprise will harness the positive co~tributions of labour unions on product{vity and by extension, the achievement of the enterprise strategic blfsiness plans or whether the enterprise will n.ot benefit from the labour unions

GLOBALIZATION AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS SYSTEM IN NIGERIA

Globalization has a major impact on the management of human resources in developing countries including Nigeria. With accelerating globalization, organizations have had to change and new trends have set in even in the industrial relations system and the management of human resources. The fundamental issue addressed in this paper is the extent to which Nigeria has restructured her industrial and trade systems for effective industrialisation within the on-going trade globalisation process. Globalization can therefore be said to have had a phenomenal impact on a developing economy like Kenya that is both positive and negative as explored in the paper

Entrepreneurship Education and Training on Business Venturing: Perception of Lagos State University Undergraduate Students

r"[1-,his study investigated the relationship of entrepreneurship education and 1 training on business venturing among entrepreneurship undergraduate students in Lagos State University. The integrated theoretical perspective was based on human capital theory and economic theory of entrepreneurship. An empirical analysis was done by means of survey method to determine the perceptions of students' selected from 300 levels and 400 levels of three (3) departments offering entrepreneurship courses. The study adapted instrument developed by Nian et al and Almousa/Paorkodi with Cronbach Alpha of 0. 780, meanwhile purposive sampling procedure was used in the study to select the required sample size. The data collected were analyzed descriptively; while the stated research hypotheses were investigated using Pearson product moment correlation techniqueat O.Ollevel of significance. Findings show that entrepreneurship education and training has encouraged students to pursue business venturing (r = .619, p < 0.01). Similarly, the relationship between entrepreneurship education and training on innovations for commercialization among the student was also significant (r = .338, p < O.Ol).There was also a significant relationship between the given entrepreneurship education and training as a hope for national development and competitiveness through strategic partnership (r = .520, p < 0.01). The study recommended that university management should improve on the courses and practical curricula of entrepreneurship education and training to foster innovation at the university. Secondly, the study recommended a strong strategic partnership with industry expert, professionals, mentors, and coaches and provides logistic support from the government and non-governmental bodies