Crisis Management on Organisational Resilience in Manufacturings Firms in Akwa Ibom State

Purpose: The effect of crisis management on organisational resilience highlights the importance of addressing both immediate challenges and underlying issues, as crises often expose and amplify existing vulnerabilities. This study examined the effect of Crisis management on organisational resilience in manufacturing firms in Akwa Ibom State, specifically one from each of the senatorial districts. The objective was to examined the effect of crisis management strategies such as training, incident reporting, decision making, effective communication and resource allocation affect organisational resilience. Methodology: With descriptive survey research design, primary data were obtained from 142 out of 220 employees, selected using the Taro Yamane formula. Data analysis involved simple percentages, frequency tables, descriptive statistics, and multiple regression analysis. Finings: The findings revealed that Training, Decision Making, Effective Communication, Incident Reporting, and Resource Allocation all positively impact organisational resilience. Specifically, the p-value for Training was 0.000, for Decision Making was 0.000, for Effective Communication was 0.000, for Incident Reporting was 0.000, and for Resource Allocation was 0.000 < 0.05, all indicating significant positive effects at the 0.05 significance level. It was concluded that training, decision making and Effective Communication emerged as the most critical factor for ensuring effective coordination and response during crises. The study concludes that a broad approach integrating these factors is important for enhancing organisational resilience. Recommendations include investing in continuous training, developing robust communication systems, strengthening incident reporting, improving decision-making frameworks, and optimizing resource allocation to maintain resilience and operational continuity during disruptions. Originality / Value: This research contributes important insights into how these factors can be strategically leveraged to not only enhance resilience but also to drive long-term sustainability and competitive advantage

Crisis Management on Organisational Resilience in Manufacturings Firms in Akwa Ibom State

Purpose: The effect of crisis management on organisational resilience highlights the importance of addressing both immediate challenges and underlying issues, as crises often expose and amplify existing vulnerabilities. This study examined the effect of Crisis management on organisational resilience in manufacturing firms in Akwa Ibom State, specifically one from each of the senatorial districts. The objective was to examined the effect of crisis management strategies such as training, incident reporting, decision making, effective communication and resource allocation affect organisational resilience. Methodology: With descriptive survey research design, primary data were obtained from 142 out of 220 employees, selected using the Taro Yamane formula. Data analysis involved simple percentages, frequency tables, descriptive statistics, and multiple regression analysis. Finings: The findings revealed that Training, Decision Making, Effective Communication, Incident Reporting, and Resource Allocation all positively impact organisational resilience. Specifically, the p-value for Training was 0.000, for Decision Making was 0.000, for Effective Communication was 0.000, for Incident Reporting was 0.000, and for Resource Allocation was 0.000 < 0.05, all indicating significant positive effects at the 0.05 significance level. It was concluded that training, decision making and Effective Communication emerged as the most critical factor for ensuring effective coordination and response during crises. The study concludes that a broad approach integrating these factors is important for enhancing organisational resilience. Recommendations include investing in continuous training, developing robust communication systems, strengthening incident reporting, improving decision-making frameworks, and optimizing resource allocation to maintain resilience and operational continuity during disruptions. Originality / Value: This research contributes important insights into how these factors can be strategically leveraged to not only enhance resilience but also to drive long-term sustainability and competitive advantage

Overcoming: A Concept Analysis

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86851/1/j.1744-6198.2011.00227.x.pd

A Trivers-Willard Effect in Contemporary Humans: Male-Biased Sex Ratios among Billionaires

BACKGROUND: Natural selection should favour the ability of mothers to adjust the sex ratio of offspring in relation to the offspring's potential reproductive success. In polygynous species, mothers in good condition would be advantaged by giving birth to more sons. While studies on mammals in general provide support for the hypothesis, studies on humans provide particularly inconsistent results, possibly because the assumptions of the model do not apply. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Here, we take a subset of humans in very good condition: the Forbe's billionaire list. First, we test if the assumptions of the model apply, and show that mothers leave more grandchildren through their sons than through their daughters. We then show that billionaires have 60% sons, which is significantly different from the general population, consistent with our hypothesis. However, women who themselves are billionaires have fewer sons than women having children with billionaires, suggesting that maternal testosterone does not explain the observed variation. Furthermore, paternal masculinity as indexed by achievement, could not explain the variation, since there was no variation in sex ratio between self-made or inherited billionaires. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Humans in the highest economic bracket leave more grandchildren through sons than through daughters. Therefore, adaptive variation in sex ratios is expected, and human mothers in the highest economic bracket do give birth to more sons, suggesting similar sex ratio manipulation as seen in other mammals

Locality, Environment and Law: The Case of Town and Village Greens

In this paper we explore one type of commons - town and village greens - which are an important feature of the rural and, increasingly, the urban, English landscape. Greens are an ancient form of commons, but they are increasingly recognised as having contemporary significance, particularly because of their potential to act as a reservoir for natural resources and their enjoyment. They are, in other words, emerging out of a 'feudal box'. We focus on the fact that town and village greens are recognised in law by their association with a group of people defined by their physical proximity to the land which is to be registered. Although this does not in itself constitute a community, the law requires for the registration of land as a town or village green a certain degree of organisation and self-selection and this has in the past fostered both a sense of subjective belief in 'belonging', as well as exclusion (the rights of local people being potentially 'diluted' by the use of the land by those from outside the locality). As well as helping to produce and recognise community and community identity, then, commons may simultaneously produce the conditions for disassociation and exclusion. In this context, we consider how law defines and upholds notions of locality, and also the ways in which an increasingly powerful environmental discourse might be seen to challenge the primacy given to locality as a way of defining and creating greens and, more generally, the practical effects of this on how decisions are made about preserving these spaces as 'common'. We consider the scope of the public trust doctrine as providing an example of how law is capable of accommodating ideas of shared nature and natural resources, in this case providing a form of public ownership over natural resources. Whilst our analysis is rooted firmly in the law relating to town and village greens in England and Wales, this body of law displays certain important features more broadly applicable to a range of other types of common land, and raises more general issues about how law supports certain interests in land, often to the exclusion of others

Speech of Hon. Lazarus W. Powell, of Kentucky, on the state of the Union: delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 22, 1861.

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