Culture significantly influences management practices worldwide, including those in Nigeria and South Africa. This research paper thus conceptualised cultural values in relation to African management practices, focusing specifically on the Nigerian and South African contexts.
2023
The study examined the relationship between workplace incivility and organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) in selected tertiary institutions in Edo State. Workplace incivility variables that were investigated include gossiping, hostility, exclusionary behaviour, and privacy invasion. Cross-sectional survey research design was adopted for this study. The population of this study covers all academic and non-academic staff of University of Benin, Ambrose Alli University, and Auchi Polytechnic. A sample of 388 was proportionally taken from the three institutions.
Poor employees‘ engagement in organization could affect their commitment to duty and lower productivity. The objective of this study was to assess the influence of employee engagement on their job commitment in the selected private manufacturing organisations in Kaduna Metropolis of Nigeria. The paper is survey research sampling the opinion of 200 employees. Their opinions were collected using a structured questionnaire. Cronbach alpha coefficient was used to determine the reliability of instruments used. Face validity was also used to determine the validity of the instruments.
This study explores the post-retirement experiences and life satisfaction of retirees from the Lagos State Civil Service. Using the descriptive survey research design and the purposive sampling technique, 671 retirees were selected as respondents for this study. Two research questions and one hypothesis were stated.
The purpose of the study is to expand the frontier of knowledge on SMEs‘ adoption of strategy, innovation in managing the changes in their business environment. Specifically, the study seeks to provide explanation to what strategy, innovation, and change mean to SMEs; identify the strategies that the SMEs have adopted in navigating the changes in their business environment; and identify ways in which SMEs are innovative in the face of the changes in the business environment.
The study is an examination of organizational justice and turnover intentions of private school staff in Edo State, Nigeria. Cross sectional survey research was employed. The population of the study comprised all staff of the private primary and secondary schools in Edo State, Nigeria. A sample size of 309 was taken as copies of questionnaire were administered to them. Of the 309 copies of questionnaire administered, 293 were found valid and usable. Collected data was analyzed using multiple regression as all tests were performed at 5% level of significance using SPSS software.
The review examined the impact of managing external environment on the organizational culture. The review discussed ideas including organizational culture, the relationship between internal and external cultures, managing the external environment using PESTEL analysis, and pertinent theories. The objectives of the review were to investigate the impact of technological developments on university decision making processes and define the impact of competitive developments on university decision making.
Depression, anxiety disorders, and bipolar disorder are chronic and highly disabling conditions that start early in life and often continue for a significant period, resulting in huge economic and health losses. Here, we make a compelling argument for scaled-up investments in mental health to address the losses from depression, anxiety disorders, and bipolar disorder. We used the mental health module of the OneHealth tool to calculate treatment costs and health impacts from 2022 to 2042. We assumed a linear increase in treatment coverage.
The study examined impact of adaptive organizational design on organizational performance. Strategic flexibility and Organizational ambidexterity theories provided a framework for this study, the review utilized a comprehensive literature review and analyzed empirical work investigating Adaptive Organizational Design and Organizational Performance, the studies found out a meaningful correlation between organic structures promoting dispersed decisionmaking and strengthened innovation outputs leading to profitability boosts.
This study presents an outline of the history of management and his contributors‘. It covers the early philosophical standpoint that set the framework for the development of management ideas from the pre-industrial evolution through the era of fast economic growth. It looks at the early philosophical position that served as the starting point for the construction of management ideas from the time before the industrial evolution up until the period of quick economic growth. The paper is solely qualitative and a review of instant literature.