The specific perspective of this research study on small scale business operation in Nigeria today is based on their impact and potential contribution on broad and diversified production base, income distribution and development of Nigeria, as well as challenges encountered in its day to day operations.This research work on the CHALLENGES OF SMALL SCALE BUSINESS IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF GARRI PROCESSING INDUSTRY IN ABAKPA NIKE ENUGU)was born out of the desire of the researcher to contribute i... read more

The prerequisite of this extended essay is to know the Relevance of Financial Management to Business Growth in Nigeria. Financial management is relevant to business growth for a well balanced operation. As businesses in Nigeria are made up of small, medium and large scale enterprises need financial management to operate well. The ultimate aim of financial management is to plan and forecast the profit making and sourcing of fund for business growth. Money is needed in financial management and us... read more

One prominent scholar and writer on management “Mary Packer Follet” defined management as “the act of getting things done through people”. Thus management carry out their functions of planning, organizing, directing, controlling, staffing, etc of both human and material resources in an organization through people. In modern days management has metamorphosed into strategic management with emphasis on how strategic management which involves strategic planning and can be used to foster or... read more

This study is on the Role of Communication in Enhancing Productivity in Hamdala Hotel Ltd Kaduna. The objectives of this study is to evaluate ways of improving effective communication. The researcher carried out his research through personal interview, direct and observation. The researcher administered questionnaire for his finding, so as to find out views, feelings, experience and activities of the respondents. The researcher wish to concludes that as a result of effective communication, we ob... read more

Human resource function becomes recognized as a central business concern sequel to its ability to integrate employee welfare and organizational objective and effective communication into strategic management. Human resource management seeks to eliminate the meditation role and adopts a generally unitarist perspective. It emphasizes strategy and planning rather than problem-solving and medication, so hat employee cooperation is delivered by programmes of corporate culture, remuneration, packaging... read more

One of the major economic backwardness of the most third world countries like Nigeria is the over prolonged sojourn of private foreign divestment in them. The predatory exploitative orientation and activities of foreign monopoly capital, it inherent tendency to resist and hamper local industrialization and to perpetuate merchant capitalism and its determination and deliberate efforts to retard the growth of endogamous entrepreneurship all this have heavily influenced Nigeria economic history ... read more

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in the development of national economy. Due to their importance and the crucial role they play in economic development and growth of the nation, much attention has been placed on financing of small and medium enterprises, since they are major contributors to the economy of Nigeria. These enterprises are drivers of the economy; therefore policy attention has to be given to them especially in developing economies because of their impact on many... read more

The underlying belief is that this involvement of employee lead to commitment and if an employee is committed he can be directed to perform in manner that positively contributes to the achievement of organizational objects. The MBO afford both the superiors and subordinates the opportunity to sit together and jointly identify common goals of enterprise define individual major areas of responsibility term of the results expected of him and use these measures as guides for operating the unit and... read more

For efficient management of the resources and the maximization of returns, the management of an organization has to set up some internal control system to assist regulating and directing the activities of the organization. The statement of auditing standards, number includes the following definition of internal control Meanwhile, internal control has been defined by the institute of chartered Accountants of England and Wales as “All forms of control both financially and otherwise establi... read more

In 1976 a uniform system of local government was introduced according to local government reforms of 1976 the primary motive is to take development direct from the center to the people at the rural areas through the local government hence the same reform (1976:1) describes local government as a tool for rural development some of these motive are the conscious attempt of the federal government to involve people in the management of their rural affairs through which the human and materials resourc... read more

The importance of human resources in an organization cannot be over emphasized. Every organization depends more on the resources for attainment of its objectives. However the objectives cannot be achieved unless organization made up of employee who have skill knowledge but in the long run. They may find it very difficult to cope with their jobs due to many factors such as organizational changes and so on. The manpower training and development programme is very important activities the manage... read more

Training and development of human resource have been considered an expend able luxury in terms of financial constraints. The growth and development of any organization depends on its human resources specific cost of management to develop individual skills or a means of developing people for promotion to the next level of organizational leadership. While these views carry some validity it is rapidly becoming apparent that the development of human resources should be regarded in the large context... read more

Decision according to the oxford advance learner is the action of deciding a conclusion reached and a judgment arrived at. Therefore decision-making is the most germane activities of management of multifarious organization ranging from small-scale organization to multinational corporations. Decision-making styles through out organizations are changing because the task, the environment and the people have changed. We are no longer marching troops into battle; we do not want blind obedience.... read more

Ours is an age of rapid change, unrest and conflicting ideologies. Society is unsettled and individuals are apprehensive as group, nations and organized groups within the nation’s struggle for power and control over material resources and man’s mind. It is in such a world setting of tension and discourages that we view the present day relationship between labour and management in Nigeria. In an organization, there are the owners of business who’s primary goals and objectiv... read more

The industrial revolution of the mid 18th century significantly changed the world of work by introduction machinery. Work moved away from being predominantly agricultural (based on peasantry and tendal land tenures) to factors labor truly became a commodity as workers received only wages for their efforts The factory system of production needs four categories of inputs: money to finance operation, machines to produce goods and services, men to operate the machines and managements ... read more

The rate of economic growth is dependent upon the growth in the factors of production and the rate of technical change. Recently, some economists hence shifted the emphasis away from the increase of physical capital to the expansion of high-level manpower such as entrepreneurship development. They maintain that the major obstacle to the economic development of developing countries is not so much a shortage of capital as a lack of absorptive capacity in part from shortage of skills... read more

The importance of quality cannot be over emphasized.itcan be trance back to the history of early man and his search for selection of fruits, capable of satisfying his need. Historically too, the ancient craftsmen of Egypt or let say other civilized words all over were conscious of what was considered appropriate and understanding. When it comes to creation of aircraft and work of art, many story were been told of how narrow minded megalomaniacs unwilling to let another piece of art to be ... read more

The first and only indigenous network provider in Nigeria called NITEL was originally known as post & telegraph communication. It was established during the coloninai era. The Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) is a federal Government owned company that provides public telecommunications services in Nigeria it started operations as a company in 1985 as an amalgam of the telecommunications Division of the default P & T Department and the Nigeria External Telecommunications limited (N... read more

Financial institutions have a very great role to play in the growth of small scale business everywhere in the world but I will limit my discussion to their roles in Nigeria. Financial institutions could be seen as an institutions which primary function is collecting and giving out funds to individuals, firms, organizations etc. for business purposes. From the definition of financial institution, or its function, one can see that financial institution could aid the growth of small scale bus... read more

From years back disputer over the terms and conditions of employment are inherent in the employer- employee relationship such disputer have existed from the day an employer hired his first employee in the organization. This disagreement may be as a result of all or some of the problem enumerated below - Employment problems and employment scantiest - Condition of work hours of work shifts. - Remuneration levels method of w... read more