A Research on HRM Factors Affecting Employee Retention at Huawei Senegal

This study puts emphasis on the relationship between human resource management practices (recruitment and selection, training and development, performance appraisal, rewards and recognition…etc.) and employee retention at Huawei in Senegal. Relatively, there is little published research on HRM practices and employee retention in Telecom industry. Such factors have necessitated this research to analyze HRM practices and employee retention at Huawei in Senegal, the influential factors on employee retention at Huawei, the impact of HRM practices on employee retention and organizational success. Data was collected through a survey research methodology. The principal instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire through a quantitative method. The instrument contained questions that included multiple indicators of human resource management practices and employee retention. Copies of the questionnaire were administered to a convenience sample of 100 of respondents drawn from staff managers and other remaining employees at Huawei in Senegal. Out of this sample, 72 questionnaires were properly answered and returned. The data collected were analyzed using SPSS 20. Data were collected from both primary (questionnaires) and secondary (reviews, articles, journals...etc.) The findings have shown that, first of all, Huawei still uses effective recruitment and selection activities for the purpose of better organizational performance and employee retention in Senegal. Then, research results also show that at Huawei company employee can get access to the necessary training and career development they expect for their job. As far as performance evaluation is concerned, results have shown the two following aspects: on the one hand, respondents’ neutrality to the question, which somehow highlights the existence of performance appraisal by a supervisor and on the other hand the fairness of  performance appraisal system at Huawei in Senegal. However, as regards to rewards and recognition, respondents avoided part-taking or just consider that the rewards and recognition was not enough at Huawei. Besides, results show that training and career development and salary are among the main factors which contribute more in retaining employees at Huawei. Finally results highlighted, for better employee retention at Huawei, HR should consider the revision of salary scheme, job security, job contract, working conditions, better recognition and reward. Keywords: HRM Practices, Employee Retention, Impact, effective, Senega

Les accords de Cotonou et la coopération décentralisée en Afrique Subsaharienne (The Cotonou agreements and decentralized cooperation in Sub-Saharian Africa)

La coopération entre l’Europe et l’Afrique a une longue histoire, mais son efficacité est discutable. La première partie de ce texte est consacrée à une mise en perspective diachronique, à la définition et aux cinq principes de la coopération décentralisée. Dans la deuxième partie nous analysons les liens systémiques qui se sont tissés entre les deux acteurs majeurs de cette coopération : l’UE et l’Afrique subsaharienne. Enfin, dans la troisième partie nous présentons une recommandation pour une mise en oeuvre efficiente d’une politique de soutien au secteur privé (et plus particulièrement au renforcement des PME-PMI) en Afrique subsaharienne du point de vue d’un acteur du Sud. The cooperation between Europe and Africa has an old history but its efficiency can be questioned. The First part of this paper explains the history and defines the five principles of the decentralized cooperation. In the second part, we analyse the systemic links between the two main actors of this cooperation: the European Union and sub-saharian Africa. Finally, in the third part, we recommend the implementation of an efficient policy to support the private sector (notably SMEs) in sub-saharian Africa, from a Southern point of view.cotonou agreements, decentralized coorporation, Sub Saharian Africa

Identités plurielles et Etat-nation: la dialectique du singulier et de l'universel

International audienceIdentités plurielles et Etat-nation : La dialectique du singulier et de l'universel in Penser la diversité, Revue sénégalaise de philosophie, numéro 18, Janvier-Juin 2012, pp. 19-29, actes du colloque de la journée mondiale de philosophie, 17 Novembre 2011, UCAD-DAKAR La construction d'Etats-nations est-il possible, en Afrique notamment, dès lors qu'à la base même nos territoires sont marqués par des identités plurielles, par des singularités ? L'Etat-nation n'est-il pas un mythe en Afrique, surtout à l'heure où les frontières se distendent et semblent se brouiller ? L'Etat-nation comme norme et fabrique de l'universel 1 dans le cadre d'un territoire bien délimité est-il seulement envisageable ? N'est-ce pas une catégorie déjà dépassée, avant même son effectivité ? Malgré les obstacles que ces questions soulèvent, nous voulons pourtant croire à la possibilité d'une existence ou d'une construction d'Etats-nations, sur ce terreau même de la pluralité. Nous voulons croire à une dialectique entre le singulier incarné par ces identités singulières et l'universel auquel est censée correspondre la catégorie d'Etat-nation. C'est en tout cas à la démonstration d'une telle idée que nous allons nous atteler dans cet article. D'abord nous nous attacherons à camper la question en précisant brièvement ce que nous entendons par « identités plurielles », pour saisir par la même occasion ses dimensions à la fois biologique, historique, sociale ou culturelle. De quel poids cela pèse-t-il sur l'idéal du vivre-ensemble et sur la construction d'un espace national, ou supranational ? 1 On l'aura compris, nous penchons pour la conception universaliste de l'Etat-nation; celle inspirée, entre autres, de Renan, et qu'on a souvent qualifiée de française, par opposition à celle dite allemande. Comme on le sait, les promoteurs de celle-ci insistent beaucoup sur les critères ethnico-linguistico-religieuses. Il n'est pas pensable à notre avis, dans le cadre de ce que nous offre l'Afrique aujourd'hui (et même le monde) en termes de diversité, de réfléchir sur la base d'une homogénéité pour concevoir ou consolider nos Etats-nations. Nous n'oublions pas cependant le fait que dans ce projet de vie en commun, il puisse être bienvenu, voire nécessaire d'élaborer, ensemble, a posteriori, un socle commun. Nous ne renions donc pas l'idée qu'une nation suppose forcément ce qu'en économie on appellerait des critères de convergence. Mais rien de tout cela n'est naturel ou évident. L'universel est à construire, ainsi que nous le montrons dans la suite de notre texte

Study of the Impact of Brain Vascular Accidents on Memorization in Man

BACKGROUND: The search for disruption of memory in patients with stroke has been performed, in order to better understand the behavior of these patients and optimize their neuropsychological accompaniment. AIM: To evaluate memory disturbances following stroke in patients; in order to better understand the attitudes of these patients.MATERIALS AND METHOD: Fifty-five (55) patients with stroke participated in a spatial memory test. This test consists in studying the arrangement, the designation and the evocation of images during learning a spatial arrangement. RESULTS: Of the 55 patients, 54.54% of patients passed the test but with later learning. And 45.45% failed at different events, they present real memory problems.CONCLUSION: Our study, confirms that stroke patients face difficulties which often include cognitive impairments, such as memory deficits. Our results indicate that these memory disorders manifest themselves to varying degrees. Indeed, the working memory disorders would be more marked in group II patients than in group I patients or they can be considered transien

Gestational diabetes and endothelial function: impact of gestational insulin resistance on reactive hyperhemia index

Our aim was to characterize endothelial function in gestational diabetes by evaluating the reactive hyperemia index (RHI, LnRHI). A prospective, descriptive and comparative study was conducted on a population of pregnant women aged over 20 and under 36, located in the gestational age group 24-38th week of amenorrhea. They were divided into two groups. Group 1 (G1): group of pregnancies without diabetes, consists of pregnant women with no risk factor for gestational diabetes and with normal fasting blood glucose. Group 2 (G2): group of pregnancies with diabetes, includes pregnancies whose oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTT) came back positive. Anthropo-physiological parameters (age, weight, height, blood pressure (PA) and biochemical parameters (glycemia, insulinemia, HOMA-IR, cholesterol, triglycerides) were measured. RHI and LnRHI were determined at Endopat 2000. The two groups were matched for age, weight, heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP). Levels of glucose (G1:0.76±0.11; G2:1.11±0.11; p˂0.0001), insulin (G1:7.67±4.35; G2:22.9±3.75; p˂0.0001), HOMA-IR (G1:1.51±0.97; G2:6.29±1.23; p˂0.0001), total cholesterol (G1:1±0.81; G2:2.49±0.74; p=0.002), HDL cholesterol (G1:0.45±0.23; G2: 0.8±0.19; p=0.004, LDL cholesterol (G1:0.42±0.54; G2:1.39±0.6; p=0.004), triglycerides (G1:0.65±0.49; G2:1.48±0.27; p=0.0018), were significantly higher in the diabetic group. Both RHI and LnRHI were negatively correlated with HOMA-IR (respectively, r=-0.8931, p<0.0001; r=-0.8938; p<0.0001). HOMA-IR index was independently associated with levels of RHI and LnRHI (respectively r²=0.797; p<0.0001); (r²=0.804; p<0.0001)). Thus, gestational insulin resistance would be associated with a change in endothelial function such as a decrease in endothelium-dependent vasodilatation reflecting endothelial dysfunction, hence an increase in cardiovascular risk

Le mouvement associatif féminin: une société civile en acte

Ce travail se veut d'abord une contribution à la réflexion sur la société civile qui, au Sénégal, suscite un vif intérêt au niveau des acteurs de la vie politique et sociale et dans la communauté des chercheurs. La réflexion est principalement axée sur la spécification d'un cadre d'intervention au sein duquel ceux qui s'y meuvent peuvent être identifiés comme étant des acteurs de la société civile. Il vise, ensuite, à articuler la problématique de la société civile avec celle des relations de genre. Aussi, allons-nous nous appesantir sur le mouvement associatif féminin et notamment sur deux de ses composantes les plus représentatives qui, au niveau de leur mode de manifestation, épousent les spécifications reconnues à la société civile. Cette investigation devrait nous permettre de jauger le dynamisme des femmes dans cette sphère d'action et, partant, de montrer le rôle qu'elles assument dans le changement social.This article is about civil society and feminine associations in Senegal, with particular emphasis on two of them : FEPRODES and APROES. By their militant involvement in these associations women voice, at the same time, new aspirations in the hope of improving their social status

Cardiopulmonary Response to Exercise in COPD and Overweight Patients: Relationship between Unloaded Cycling and Maximal Oxygen Uptake Profiles

Cardiopulmonary response to unloaded cycling may be related to higher workloads. This was assessed in male subjects: 18 healthy sedentary subjects (controls), 14 hypoxemic patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and 31 overweight individuals (twelve were hypoxemic). They underwent an incremental exercise up to the maximal oxygen uptake (VO 2 max), preceded by a 2 min unloaded cycling period. Oxygen uptake (VO 2 ), heart rate (HR), minute ventilation (VE), and respiratory frequency (fR) were averaged every 10 s. At the end of unloaded cycling period, HR increase was significantly accentuated in COPD and hypoxemic overweight subjects (resp., +14 ± 2 and +13 ± 1.5 min −1 , compared to +7.5 ± 1.5 min −1 in normoxemic overweight subjects and +8 ± 1.8 min −1 in controls). The fR increase was accentuated in all overweight subjects (hypoxemic: +4.5 ± 0.8; normoxemic: +3.9 ± 0.7 min −1 ) compared to controls (+2.5 ± 0.8 min −1 ) and COPDs (+2.0 ± 0.7 min −1 ). The plateau VE increase during unloaded cycling was positively correlated with VE values measured at the ventilatory threshold and VO 2 max. Measurement of ventilation during unloaded cycling may serve to predict the ventilatory performance of COPD patients and overweight subjects during an exercise rehabilitation program

Insulin resistance and arterial stiffness: impact of gestational diabetes on pulse wave velocity

Background: Gestational diabetes is an intolerance of glucose with the first appearance during the pregnancy. This hyperglycaemia status, because of the pre-existing insulin-resistance, constitute a favourable land of arterial stiffness. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of non obese gestational diabetes on arterial stiffness by measuring the pulse wave velocity (PWV).Methods: We recruited 60 pregnant women aged from 20 to 35 years old. They were between twentieth four and thirtieth five weeks of gestational age. Subjects were divided into two groups: the first group (G1), considered as control group, included 25 normoglycemic pregnant subjects without any history of illness or risk factors of gestational diabetes; the second group (G2) included 35 women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM). All pregnant women had not history of smoking, were not taking decoction or medicine, which could disturb pregnancy evolution. Anthropo-physiological and biochemical parameters studied, were: age, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure (BP), triglyceride, cholesterol and HOMA-IR index. The PWV between finger and toe (PWVft) was measured by pOpmètre®.Results: The two groups are matched by age (G1:28±4ans; G2:29±3ans) and BMI (G1:25.6±1.27; G2:26.9±1.3). Blood pressure (BP) values are in normal interval (systolic BP: [110-132mmHg]; diastolic BP: [63-87mmHg]; mean BP: [79-103mmHg]). Total cholesterol (G1:0.95±0.08;G2:2.4±0.7; p˂0.0001), HDL cholesterol (G1:0.44±0.02; G2:0.76±0.2; p˂0.0001, LDL cholesterol (G1:0.40±0.05; G2:1.3±0.5; p˂0.0001), triglyceride (G1:0.57±0.45; G2:1.6±0.4;p˂0.0001), HOMA.IR (G1:1.31±1.05; G2:7.4±1.07; p˂0.01), PWVft (G1:5.99±1.23; G2:10.3±1.9; p˂0.0001) are significantly higher in diabetic group. PWVft is positively correlate to HOMA-IR index, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglycerides (r=0.3348, p=0.032; r=0.5275, p˂0.0001; r=0.4855,p˂0.0001; r=0.5581, p˂0.0001respectively).Conclusions: Gestational diabetes might induce an increase of pulse wave velocity expressing increment of arterial stiffness. This last constitute an early underlying cardiovascular risk.

High blood viscosity is associated with high pulse wave velocity in African sickle cell trait carriers

Background: Sickle cell trait (SCT) is the benign condition of sickle cell disease. Often asymptomatic, the SCT carriers have hemorheological disturbances such as blood hyper-viscosity compared to healthy subjects. These disturbances could lead to structural and functional changes in large vessels. The aim of the study was to evaluate the association between blood viscosity (ηb) and pulse wave velocity (PWV) in SCT carriers.Methods: Thirteen SCT with high blood viscosity (SCT_hηb) aged 34±12 years (4 men) were compared to 13 SCT with low blood viscosity (SCT_lηb) aged 32±9 years (5 men) recruited from the National Blood Transfusion Center (CNTS) in Dakar (Senegal). Pulse wave velocity finger-toe (PWVft) was assessed using pOpmètre® (Axelife SAS-France). Cardiovascular risk (CVR) was assessed according to the Framingham Laurier score.Results: SCT_hηb had higher PWVft (m/s) than SCT_lηb respectively 8.98±1.98 and 7.11±1.18 (p = 0.004). CVR score (%) was higher in SCT_hηb than SCT_lηb, but this difference was not statistically significant (5.96±7.45 vs 2.09±2.15; p=0.31). Multivariate linear regression showed a positive correlation between PWVft and ηb and CVR score (r2=0.74, F=21.19, p˂0.001).Conclusions: Present results indicate that the SCT_hηb carriers have arteries stiffer than SCT_lηb and ηb and CVR could remain independent determinants of arterial stiffness in SCT carriers