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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY COST AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH OF LISTED MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN NIGERIA
Full text linkThe study examined the effect of corporate social responsibility cost on sustainable growth of listed firms in Nigeria. The study adopts ex-post facto research design. Fourteen (14) out of the 56 listed manufacturing companies on the Nigerian stock exchange as at 2021 were selected for the study. Data was analyzed using panel regression and Autoregressive Distribution Lag (ARDL) model. Findings from the study reveal that, corporate social responsibility cost denoted as social responsibility cost and environmental cost has a long run relationship with sustainable growth of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria as measured by the bounds test using the Wald statistics. Furthermore, the results also reveal short run relationship with a speed of adjustment to long run equilibrium at 77.95% significant at 5% level of significance. It is thus recommended that manufacturing firms should continue to invest in corporate social responsibility as this has a significant effect on their sustainability. Firms must sustain the current corporate social responsibility strategy and improve on ways to be cost efficient while still maintaining an effective corporate social responsibility strategy that will put the firms in good light with consideration to environmental responsiveness
BIG DATA: A SOURCE OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Full text linkIn a business environment that constantly and rapidly changes, future prediction becomes more important than the simple visualization of historical or current perspectives. For effective future prediction, data analysis using statistical and predictive modelling techniques may be applied to enhance and support the organization’s business strategy. Therefore, the effective use of data is becoming the basis of competition. Big data fundamentally change the way businesses compete and operate. Companies that invest in and successfully derive value from their data have a distinct advantage over their competitors. This performance gap will continue to grow as more relevant data is generated and the technologies that enable faster, easier data analysis continue to develop
THE SMART MANAGEMENT AND INDUSTRY 4.0, PROVIDERS OF POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS FOR IMPROVING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME HUMAN CAPITAL
No full textRegional Intermediate Body for Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development Bucharest-Ilfov Region implements the 40Ready Interreg Europe project, “Strengthening SME capacity to engage in Industry 4.0”. Within this project, a research tool, a survey (“Industrial revolution 4.0 coming to our lives”), was developed and applied, designed to provide relevant information in the field of Industry 4.0 and also to provide thematic solutions (a new criterion to support SME digital competences through the Operational Programme Human Capital 2014-2020; a new evaluation criterion for the call “Digital competencies for SMEs’ employees”, designed to support the Managing Authority for OPHC in evaluation and, at the same time, to help SMEs acknowledge the main I4.0 domains to focus on their digitalisation path in general and specifically for developing employees’ digital competencies).This paper, the result of an exploratory research, aims to present the relevant characteristics, trends and potential solutions for improving the implementation of the Operational Programme Human Capital 2014-2020, a topic that generated the need to start and, implicitly, to operationalize such a study.Therefore, in the configuration of the research process, there were no strict rules.
CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND FIRM PERFORMANCE OF LISTED MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN NIGERIA STOCK EXCHANCE
Full text linkThis research studied the link between capital structure and financial performance of Nigerian manufacturers. It evaluated the nexus between total debt and financial performance of listed manufacturing companies in Nigeria, the nexus between equity and financial performance of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria.Stock Exchange.The study used ex-post-facto data to investigate variable relationships. Nigerian manufacturing firms were studied. The data was taken from the company's (2005-2020). Both descriptive and inferential statistics, such as Pearson correlation and panel regression, were used to examine the data.Return on equity, equity capital has a substantial influence on the performance of Nigerian manufacturing companies. 6.34 and 0.26 Total debt assessed by asset debt-to-equity ratio has no influence on stock market performance (p>0.6580). Sand return on equity has a positive significant influence on financial performance of Nigerian manufacturing firms by 6.331 (p=0.0000.05) and 0.117 (p=0.0070.05); long-term debt also has a positive significant effect.The study found that equity capital, total debt, and long-term debt have the potential to positively and significantly influence the financial performance of manufacturing firms in Nigeria, whereas short term debt has the potential to positively and insignificantly influence financial performance. Total asset has the potential to positively and significantly influence financial performance
Women in work contexts. A sociological investigation
No full textIn the world of work, the presence of women has been a very stable phenomenon for years now. Some factors, such as:- the increasing level of education,- the progressive outsourcing of the national economy,- the diversification of employment contracts,have definitely favored an increase in the employed female population, which however still remains in a due minority compared to the figures regarding male employment. However, one factor outlines the importance of the presence of women in the labor market, and is that relating to female entrepreneurship, which has grown in recent years thanks above all to regulatory systems which, in fact, have progressively favored both its promotion and development. . However, this is a process that has not only affected Italy, but the entire sphere of the European Union, where it is estimated that almost a fifth of the annual GDP growth can be explained, in principle, precisely with the increase participation of women in the workforce. Although disparities continue to affect the employment market, the "gender segregation" element appears singular, with women concentrated in some types of employment and men, obviously, in others.
KYRGYZ ETHNOGRAPHIC TERMS IN CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC ADVERTISING
Full text linkThe usage of a variety of stylistic and lexical means makes the language of advertisements colorful, rich, and bright. Language of advertising is been created with an aim to attract customers’ attention and provoke them to the further actions. This paper covers the examples of the advertisements taken from the Kyrgyz language in order to demonstrate the structural traits of the advertising discourse; the analysis of the advertisements in Kyrgyz assists to reveal the main contextual notions represented in advertising. The paper hypothesis is that the advertisements in Kyrgyz can greatly influence the views of ordinary people. The paper has been accompanied by the examples taken from the mass media sources functioning in Kyrgyzstan
YOUTH ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN WEST AFRICA (REFERENCE TO THE AMNESTY PROGRAMME IN THE NIGER DELTA)
Full text linkThe growth of an economy needs to have a great impact on the citizens of that economy and thus help reduce poverty which is one of the main purposes of the millennium development goals. Nigeria has one of the largest populations in Africa and regarded as wealthy in terms of natural resources but with high levels of poverty. The government in their effort applied many policies in eradicating poverty through many empowerment programmes. This study attempts to examine if the empowerment programmes implemented by the government really helped in reducing poverty with focus on the youth who are the future of the economy. Focus was laid on the Amnesty Programme implemented to empower the youth in the Niger-Delta, highlighting the financial commitment of the programme and challenges encountered. The study uses the qualitative research approach which was exploratory and descriptive in nature with information leading to deduction of conclusions derived from journals, books and previous papers. It was realized that the Amnesty programme has helped to prevent the militant youths from their bad deeds and succeeded in equipping them with technical training in various fields of endevour. It was also concluded that there has been a lavish expenditure on the programme but still encounter many challenges such as unpaid or irregular payment of allowances to beneficiaries, inappropriate training provision, and limited employment prospects and so on. The challenges hinder the achievement of the expected goals and thus do not yield any effective result in reducing poverty. The study recommends that The Federal government should provide funds to the beneficiaries of the programme to establish their own businesses or provide them with job opportunities since unemployment of the graduates can push them back to the cree
CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN PUBLIC RELATIONS, AS AN IMPORTANT TOOL IN ASSISTING MANAGERIAL DECISIONS
Full text linkIn this study, we write regarding creativity and innovation in public relations, of which it is evident that we need as a necessary means in supporting managerial judgments. For us, creativity in public relations can be a new way to achieve a goal easier, more efficient and faster. It is evident that every client acknowledges creativity, but in frequent situations, it does not convert into evident cases or messages for a mass audience and then is not visible. We also discuss in our study the profile of a ingenious public relations professional, who must be: engaged, instructed, ambitious for performance, having logical knowledge, having malleable and decisive judgment, being an idealist. In this analysis we will make an investigation to show that ingenuity can appear in one of the subsequent positions at the corporate administration zone: either in planning (positioning, outlining) or implementation (technique, presentation information, knowledge).
THE IMPORTANCE OF USING SMART DATA TO ANALYZE SKILLS IN THE LABOR MARKET
Full text linkThe needs of the workforce are constantly changing as a result of global concerns about digitization, production automation, the introduction of new technologies and industry 4.0. Therefore, the labor market needs a continuous reassessment of labor skills in the context of digitalization and the industrial revolution. The paper will study the change in perspective of the structure of the employed population by occupational groups and in high-tech economy of Romania compared to UE27 and the most requested skills currently in online job postings in various fields, based on traditional and intelligent data from Cedefop. It is also intended to understand how the use of BigData can facilitate labor market decision-making. The analysis of the skills required in the jobs posted online from various fields in Romania, in 2020, suggests importance of digital and contextual skills having in view that in the top is ,,accessing and analyzing digital data”, followed by ,,working with others” and ,,using digital tools for collaboration, content creation and problem solving”
