Career Guidance and Entrepreneurship Education in Nigeria

Entrepreneurship education is a necessity in addressing the problem of unemployment of school leavers (secondary and tertiary education graduates) in Nigeria and the promotion of employment market for those who cannot employ themselves. Entrepreneurship education aims at preparing and equipping students of secondary and tertiary educational system with relevant theories, knowledge and practice of entrepreneurships. It is to prepare students to venture into job creation and nurturing of entrepreneurship successfully in emerging economies of Nigeria.  The paper focuses on career guidance and entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship skills needed in careers, examples of entrepreneurs required in Nigeria, how to identify entrepreneurship skills and theories supporting career choice development. The role of self-    concept and self-esteem in career choice. The paper concludes with   recommendations on the need to place emphasis on entrepreneurship education in order to save the Nigerian school leavers and graduates from idleness and save Nigerian economy from diving downward. Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Education, Career

EFFECT OF GREEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND GREEN WORK LIFE BALANCE ON EMPLOYEE RETENTION IN SELECTED HOSPITALITY FIRMS IN LAGOS AND OGUN STATES, NIGERIA

Employee retention is a strategy of retaining talented employees with a specific end goal to meet business targets. Employee turnover is a symptom of deeper issues that have not been resolved. Hospitality Industry in Nigeria has faced several issues, including poor employee retention and low staff motivation. Part of the reasons for the poor employee retention and high turnover in the Hospitality Sector was owning to issues that border on green human resource management practices and green work life balance, and the inflexible nature of their job. Other certain reasons for poor employee retention include low pay, lack of development opportunities, and bad working conditions with greater efforts by staff and fewer receivables. Therefore, this paper examines the effect of green human resource management practices, green work life balance on employee retention of selected hospitality firms in Lagos and Ogun States, Nigeria. The data collected through the primary sources (questionnaire) were analysed using inferential statistics employing regression analysis. The study revealed that Green human resource management practices, green work life balance (green performance management, green employee relation, green disciplinary management, work family balance and work health balance) had a significant and positive effect on employee retention in hospitality firms in Lagos and Ogun states, Nigeria (Adj. R2 = 0.540, F (4, 669) = 176.897, p < 0.05).  Article visualizations