rom high turnover rates and down falls because they do not apply compensation that may only need little effort (Aktar, Sachu & Ali, 2012). Additionally, though organizations are channeling more resources in enhancing organizational performance, there is widespread ignorance on how employee performance could increase when managers and human resource personnel use compensations on employees, the relationship existing between the kind of compensation and performance and how effective they can be ut... read more

e Food and beverage industry seemed to be losing market share because of quality related challenges. Some food companies in the food and beverages industry lost 12% and 10% sales in lager beer and soft drinks respectively because of the proliferation of imported beverages into the country, (Delta Corporation Full Year Report 31 March 2015). Similarly, Nestle PLC seemed to be facing quality problems in raw milk and this resulted in related imports gaining ground (Nestle PLC Annual Report 2014). T... read more

hese institutions allow cross-sectional diversification across projects, allowing risky innovative activity while guaranteeing contracted interest rate to savers (King and Levine, 1993). Financial institutions can boost the rate of technological innovation by identifying the entrepreneurs with most promising technologies. Successful institutions can help reduce liquidity risk and enable long-term investment (Diamond and Dybvig, 1983). Banks with sound long term performance can offer job security... read more

ne major reason for the incessant industrial actions in Nigeria today is due to lack of good salary review policy that would be in line with changes in some macroeconomic factors such as prices of goods and services, and inflation. Prices of goods and services continue to increase everyday while the review of public sector employee’s salaries are only considered years after negotiations and industrial actions. An application of effective industrial relation practices would ensure an establishe... read more

economies of the world that have adopted a similar strategy to boost their economic growth. A large percentage of Nigeria’s population estimated to be 182.2 Million according to World Bank, (2016) remain at rather low levels of literacy and often with insufficient access to education and health care. This may be attributed to various measures used to measure human capital development as Education, Health, Productivity, youth empowerment with no universal agreement on the measures. However life... read more

spite of ITF’s pursuit to fulfill its mandate of promoting and encouraging skills acquisition in Industry and Commerce to meet the needs of the economy, it is important to measure the contribution of its Training Programmes to client organizations vis-à-vis economic growth and development. The need to assess the impact of its Training Programmes becomes imperative. It is expected that the Nigerian workforce, would have acquired necessary Skills required to make significant impact on industria... read more

Finance for the general research work will be a challenge during the course of study. Correspondents also might not be able to complete or willing to submit the questionnaires given to them. However, it is believed that these constraints will be worked on by making the best use of the available materials and spending more than the necessary time in the research work. Therefore, it is strongly believed that despite these constraint, its effect on this research report will be minimal, thus... read more

This research work will be beneficial to the organization under review (Nestle Nig Ltd) as the researcher will search into various aspects of marketing branded food products within the organization to ascertain whether the huge amount of money spent to brand food products is justified. The study is also expected to serve as a reference material for future research work in this important aspect of business administration as it can be consulted as a reference material especially if there i... read more

The growing complexity of the business environment and the cut-throat competition in market places makes budgeting an invaluable managerial tool. Management must know where it wants to be at the end of a prescribed period and how it intends to get there. It is not just enough to know what share of the market a company wants to capture, it must also plan how to achieve that objective. Unfortunately, many business undertakings have not come to terms with this indispensable financial tool that has ... read more

inance for the general research work will be a challenge during the course of study. Correspondents also might not be able to complete or willing to submit the questionnaires given to them. However, it is believed that these constraints will be worked on by making the best use of the available materials and spending more than the necessary time in the research work. Therefore, it is strongly believed that despite these constraint, its effect on this research report will be minimal, thus,... read more

Finance for the general research work will be a challenge during the course of study. Correspondents also might not be able to complete or willing to submit the questionnaires given to them. However, it is believed that these constraints will be worked on by making the best use of the available materials and spending more than the necessary time in the research work. Therefore, it is strongly believed that despite these constraint, its effect on this research report will be minimal, thus... read more

Finance for the general research work will be a challenge during the course of study. Correspondents also might not be able to complete or willing to submit the questionnaires given to them. However, it is believed that these constraints will be worked on by making the best use of the available materials and spending more than the necessary time in the research work. Therefore, it is strongly believed that despite these constraint, its effect on this research report will be minimal, thus... read more

his research work is organized in five chapters, for easy understanding, as follows Chapter one is concern with the introduction, which consist of the (overview, of the study), statement of problem, objectives of the study, research question, significance or the study, research methodology, definition of terms and historical background of the study. Chapter two highlight the theoretical framework on which the study its based, thus the review of related literature. Chapter three deals on the rese... read more

his study investigated the relationship between working capital management measured by account receivable period (ACRP), inventory period (INVP), cash conversion cycle (CCC) and sales Growth (SG) and profitability performance measured by returns on assets (ROA). The study utilized secondary data obtained from the annual financial statements of Nigerian Manufacturing companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) for period 2008 – 2012. Multiple regression model were adopted for testing ... read more

The particular attention in manufacturing emanates from the conviction that the sector is a potential instrument of modernization, a creator of jobs, and a generator of positive spill-over effects (Tybout, 2000). Moreover, the growth in manufacturing output has been a key element in the successful transformation of most economies that have seen sustained rises in their per capital income (Soderbom and Teal, 2002). Focus should therefore be on manufacturing and those factors that may foster its... read more

COMMUNICATION: Communication can be said to be the exchanged and flow of information and ideas from one person to anther or a process by which information is exchanged between individual through a common system of symbols, signs or behavior 4. DEVELOPMENT: This is a systematic use of science and technical knowledge to meet specific objective or requirement. 5. DIVERSIFICATION: It is a portfolio strategy designed to reduce exposure to risk by combining a verity of investments such stocks, bound... read more

This could be described as an income accruable to person(s), government and organization. Statutes: This is a legal frame work upon which actions/ inaction are based. Tax Jurisdiction: This refers to an area where one tier of government has power to collect tax. Tax Allowance: This refers to the proportion of income exempted from tax. Tax Holiday: This is a period of grace granted to a company during which it’s income is not subjected to tax. Taxable Income: This refers to that ... read more

his study focused on the impact of informal group influences on employees on organizational performance. It is centered on the staff and management of Nigeria Port Authority. It will include important areas of informal group, the effect of informal group on organizational performance, supervisory strategies for harnessing informal group power. The data will be collected for analysis and subsequent testing will cut across staff and departmental head and unit head. The limitations that affect adeq... read more

he study examined the impact of strategic planning and organization effectiveness among selected firms in Port Harcourt. The research design utilized was the quasi-experimental research design. The Pearson product moment correlation coefficient was used to test the postulated hypothesis at 0.05 percent level of significant, and population of 112 employees, comprising managers of various categories in the selected firms the finding revealed that strategic planning has positive and significant inf... read more

Managers and administrators have realized that having capable staff is a competitive advantage, effective and productive workforce makes an organization not only survive but flourish (kumar & Arora, 2012). Due to this understanding, retention of satisfied employees as key potentials in an organization which represents the total of the inherent abilities, acquired knowledge, capabilities and skills give employees the guarantee and security that they have access to their jobs and in turn they deve... read more