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Employee Performance Among Selected Tertiary Institutions: Evidence from Intrinsic Reward System
Get PDFThe study examined employee performance among selected tertiary institutions: evidence from intrinsic reward system. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised the selected universities staff in Ado-Ekiti. A total of 360 structured questionnaires were administered to elicit information from the target respondents. Data gathered were analyzed using hierarchical regression models. The result showed that consultative participation significantly affect institutional stability as it was significant on institutional stability (t=-1.303, t=5.429, t=2.108, t=6.365 and t=3.078, p<0.05) Thus, in conclusion, it was shown that all the constructs of the explanatory variable were significantly and positively related to employee performance of selected university in Ado-Ekiti. Keywords: Intrinsic Reward, Employee, Performance. DOI: 10.7176/JESD/10-4-1
Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic and Performance of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Akure Metropolis, Ondo State, Nigeria
Get PDFThis study examined the effects of coronavirus on the performance of Small and Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Akure North and Akure South in Ondo state, Nigeria. The specific objectives are to evaluate the direct impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the structure and system of SMEs; examine the downstream effects of the lockdown order due to coronavirus on SMEs; investigate the effect of social distancing and hand washing on the performance of small and medium scale enterprises. This research adopted a descriptive research design; the purposive sampling method was used to select the SMEs, with the sampling size of the study being 284 respondents in both Akure North and Akure South. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire and analyzed using simple linear regression. The study found that direct impact, downstream effect, and social distancing had significant effects on the performance of SMEs. The study thus concludes that the coronavirus influences the performance of SMEs. It was recommended that SMEs emphasise more resources towards building customer protection guides and personal selling to improve the enterprise’s profit level.
 
Influence of Gender and Age on Organisational Commitment Among Civil Servants in South-West, Nigeria
Get PDFThe paper examines the influence of demographic variables of gender and age on the commitment of employees in the Nigerian civil service. Data for the study were obtained through 567 valid questionnaire containing information on gender and age, and work related issues from civil servants purposively selected from six states in the South-West, Nigeria. The Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used for the data. Findings indicate that the age groups of the civil servants are critical to their commitment in the organisation. The findings indicated that commitments in the civil service organisation are higher for the younger and older civil servants than those within the middle age groups. The government is provided with information on what can be done to enhance employees’ commitment to the Nigerian civil service through adequate remuneration and motivation for the different age groups. The paper concludes that civil servants should be motivated according to the needs of the age groups in order to enhance their commitment levels
Gender Analysis of Social Capital Status of Entrepreneurs in Akure Metropolis, Ondo State
Get PDFThis study examined the social capital status of male and female entrepreneurs in Akure metropolis, Ondo State, Nigeria. Social capital has become a pivotal tool for poverty alleviation in Nigeria, which is due to the fact that it is the coming together of people with common interest, values, norms, cultural practices and with a goal to meet certain basic needs, enjoy inherent benefits in participating or joining associations to achieve pre-determined goals and objectives which in turn is expected to improve the living standard of individuals, enterprises, and the economy in general. The study administered structured questionnaire to collect data from the respondents. Multi-stage sampling technique was used in selecting 201 micro scale entrepreneurs from six male and female dominated enterprises (barbing, printing press, mechanics, catering, hairdressing, tailoring) and the data were analysed using descriptive statistics. The result of the descriptive characteristics revealed that respondents were in one association or the other which include: occupational groups (39.22%), cooperative society (28.45%), trader association (13.79%), religious group (6.89%) and family group (7.76%). In the same vein, the social capital profile of both male and female entrepreneurs were, meeting index (100%, 96%), homogeneity index (39.26%, 44.77%), membership index (36.74%, 43.36%), labour index (25.18%, 29.38%) and trust index (24.70%, 24.70%) respectively. The study concluded that entrepreneurs (male and female) in Akure metropolis did not take advantage of their social capital and as such this has placed a bottleneck on their inability to maximize their business performance. The study recommends that entrepreneurs should appreciate gender balance in entrepreneurship, recognise their social capital status, and be actively involved in groups and deploy proper education and enlightenment on their social capital benefits through their various groups.
 
Assessment of recreational pattern of students in higher institutions of Ondo and Ekiti States, Nigeria.
Get PDFRecreation is very vital for all categories of persons in the society no matter the age, social or
economic status considering the stress placed upon each individual in order to make ends
meet and the resultant hazard on individuals. The assumption is that Nigerian students are
too encumbered with heavy academic burden such that they are too busy to recreate. This
paper focuses on the recreational pattern of students in institutions of higher learning in two
contiguous south-western states in Nigeria, namely Ondo and Ekiti. In particular, the study
looked into the adequacy of facilities available in the institutions, the frequency of students’
participation in recreation and factors inhibiting their participation in recreational activities. In
addition, students’ preference for the different forms of indoor and outdoor recreational
activities and the propensity to pay for the use of recreational facilities were investigated. Fifty
questionnaire copies were administered on randomly sampled students from each of the six
institutions of higher learning in both states. A total of three hundred questionnaire copies
were thus administered. It was discovered among other things that more students gyrate by
going to parties rather than night clubs while (as a big surprise) the greatest number of
students see their academic work as posing very little hindrance to their recreation and more
than two-third will be willing to pay for the use of recreational facilities provided on campus if
the need arises
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
LIFE COACHING AND EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA
Get PDFLife coaching is a key managerial behavior that organizations must promote to develop employees and achieve higher levels of productivity. Hence, the need to assess the effect of life coaching on employee productivity in creative industry in Lagos State, Nigeria. Purposive sampling was employed to select three companies in Lagos State for their production value which include Hi-Impact Television, Azusa Productions and GDH Designers Hub. The entire staff of the three companies were selected, in all 179 respondents were sampled. Descriptive, chi-squared and Z- test were employed for analyses. The result shows that 94.6% of the respondents were still in their productive years and that they still had more years to spend in their work places. Majority of the respondents (63.1%) are male and 76.6% of the employees were first degree holders. Before the life coaching intervention, 85.6% of the respondents were aware of a life coaching, 66.7% of the respondents set goals at work while after the coaching intervention, 94.6% set goals at work. The result shows that only coach competence has no significant effect on employee productivity while Coachee efficacy, coaching condition and other factors have significant effect on employee productivity. The result revealed that there is significant difference in the productivity of the experimental and control group in the study area. The study therefore recommends that Managers, Executives and Human Resource Personnel should focus more on providing life coaching programs to supplement training and development practices in their organizations to enhance productivity
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