SME/ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 1. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES’ PERFORMANCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALA...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study In the last ten years, organisations especially in Africa have been hit with the undisputable fact that the creation of competitive advantage lies in people. Organisations have increasingly recognised the potential for their people to be a source of competitive advantage. Not too long ago, so called HR functions was the preserve of “Person...Continue Reading »

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• 2. spirit of entreneurship in teriary institutions

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study It has become increasingly apparent that entrepreneurship play a significant role in the socio economic development of a society. Economically, entrepreneurship invigorates markets and promotes job creation through the formation of new businesses. History has shown that economic progress has been advanced by pragmatic people who are entrepreneurial ...Continue Reading »

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• 3. THE EFFECT OF PUBLIC RELATIONS STRATEGIES ON THE PRODUCTIVITY IN ORGANISATION (A...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Knowledge of the past forms the basic for an understanding of the present and the future.Many people believe that public relation does have a history which like that of other professions follows a logical line of sequence. In recent years, there have been such studies of related fields propaganda and public opinion. (Examples of public opinion i...Continue Reading »

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• 4. INFLUENCE OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES OF EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY IN SMALL AND MEDIUM...

  » CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION1.1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYTraining and development of employees is among one of the tools of competitive advantage of organizations. Economic process has place incessant pressure on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for them to adapt to alter in order that they will stay competitive (Fassoula, 2006). This suggests that small and medium enterprises ought to train and deve...Continue Reading »

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• 5. PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT AND INVESTMENT DECISIONS OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERP...

  » INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Researchers all over the world has advocated the need for manager or consultant to constantly examines and evaluates an employee’s work behavior and productivity by comparing it with preset standards, document the results of the comparison, and use the results to provide feedback to the employee to show where improvements are needed and why (Miles, 20...Continue Reading »

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• 6. THE ROLES OF INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA ECONOMY

  » CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYEntrepreneurship is a dynamic process of creating incremental wealth. The creation of this wealth, the entrepreneurs assume the major risk in terms of equity time and career commitment of providing value for some products or services. According to Robert E. Holmes, Ph.D (Dean of UAB’s school of Business) “Entrepreneurship is more a phil...Continue Reading »

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• 7. IMPACT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTRE ON JOB CREATION (A CASE STUDY OF NIC CATERING ...

  » CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTIONBACKGROUND OF THE STUDYResearch on the menace of unemployment has created a huge gap in the mind of many researchers particularly in Nigeria and the world by extension. This is so because the rising rate of poverty and other social vices have aggravated the economic recession and political crises experienced in recent times in the country. World Bank (2004) in its report ass...Continue Reading »

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• 8. EMPOWERING SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  » CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTIONBACKGROUND TO THE STUDYSmall and Medium Scale Enterprises are sub sectors of the industrial sector which play crucial roles in socio political and industrial development (Ahmed, 2006). Following the adoption of Economic reform programme in Nigeria in 1981, there have been several decisions to switch from capital intensive and large scale industrial projects which was based o...Continue Reading »

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• 9. PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT AND INVESTMENT DECISIONS OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERP...

  » CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDYResearchers all over the world has advocated the need for manager or consultant to constantly examines and evaluates an employee’s work behavior and productivity by comparing it with preset standards, document the results of the comparison, and use the results to provide feedback to the employee to show where improvements are needed and why (...Continue Reading »

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• 10. AN APPRAISAL OF SUCCESS CRITERIA FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS IN NIGERIA A CASE...

  » CHAPTER 1 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Management School of Entrepreneurship The management school suggests that an entrepreneur is a person who organizes or manages a business undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of profit (Webster, 1966). Within this perspective, it is believed that entrepreneurship can be developed through conscious learning. In most cases, failure in entrepreneurial acti...Continue Reading »

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• 11. EFFECTS OF STARTUP BUSINESS IN ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA. (A CASE S...

  » 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY. In the beginning, entrepreneurship started when people produced more products than they needed, as such, they had to exchange these surpluses. For instance, if a blacksmith produced more hoes than he needed, he exchanges the surplus he had with what he had not but needed; maybe he needed some yams or goat etc. he would look for someone who needed his products to exchan...Continue Reading »

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• 12. THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY (A CASE ...

  » CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION1.1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYEvery Organization, sect, household and business needs proper management to ensure smooth running of such Organizational set up. Any institution that is not properly managed, planned and controlled cannot achieve success. In a nutshell, good management needs to be established. Human, material and financial resources must be present to achieve mana...Continue Reading »

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• 13. BASIC PRODUCTION CONTROL PROBLEM IN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY AND BEST WAYS OF SOLVING...

  » CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTIONEver since the industrial revolution a couple of years ago which encouraged us from an economy based in agriculture into on based on manufacturing, ourstandard of living depended on the efficient production of goods and services, without production we would still be a poor and backward nation instead of being what we re. we have been overtaken by some many countries in recen...Continue Reading »

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• 14. THE IMPACT OF CREDIT MANAGEMENT ON THE PROFITABILITY OF A MANUFACTURING COMPANIE...

  » ABSTRACTThe aim of this research work is to appraise “The impact of credit management on the profitability of a manufacturing company focused on Unilever Nigeria Plc Aba”. This is because; trade credit is a short term source of finance and sometimes take the form of bills payable. The statement problem of this research banks about the poor level of credit management and also the proble...Continue Reading »

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• 15. MANAGEMENT CONTROL PRACTICE IN NIGERIAN BREWERIES CASE STUDY OF NIGERIAN BREWERI...

  » CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTIONBACKGROUND OF THE STUDYTraditional budgeting has been criticized for a long time now for its inadequacy as a means of management control. Criticisms concerning its inadequate practices in a changing business environment emerged as early as the mid 1980’s with Johnson and Kaplan (1987) seminal book relevance lost?It called also note from the work of Allen (1998). Who st...Continue Reading »

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• 16. ROLE OF MANAGEMENT IN MOTIVATING WORKERS IN THE BANKING SECTOR (A CASE STUDY OF ...

  » ABSTRACTThis project work was carried out to determine the role of management in motivating workers in banking sector, using first Bank Nig. Plc, Okpara Avenue, Enugu State as a case study. The purpose of this study is to find out how workers in the banking sector derive motivation, taking into consideration the impact of management influence and the effect of this on productivity. Also research q...Continue Reading »

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• 17. IMPACT OF INDUSTRIAL ACTION ON THE ACHIEVEMENT OF TRADE UNION OBJECTIVE

  » CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYStrike action also called labour strike or industrial action is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employee(s) to work. A strike usually takes place in respond to employee grievances. Strike became important during the Industrial Revolution, when mass labour became important in factories and mines. In most countries, they were quietly ma...Continue Reading »

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• 18. THE IMPACT OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIAN BANKING SECTOR

  » ABSTRACTThe research topic of this study is the impact of change management in Nigerian Banking sector, A study of United Bank for Africa (UBA) station Road, Enugu.The research was a descriptive research, the researcher made use of primary sources and secondary sources of data. The primary sources of data was obtained through questionnaire and oral interview while secondary sources was sourced thr...Continue Reading »

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• 19. IMPACT OF REWARD SYSTEM, EMPLOYEE TURNOVER AND PRODUCTIVITY IN NIGERIA

  » ABSTRACTThis project is mainly concerned with the relationship of wage policy, employee turnover and productivity. It’s generally agreed that human resources are very vital to the success or otherwise of any firm, hence, there is need for adequate for human resources. The use of University of Nigeria Nsukka as my case study is because it’s a University with record of high productivity ...Continue Reading »

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• 20. THE IMPACT OF EMPLOYEES PARTICIPATION IN DECISION MAKING PROCESSES OF NIGERIAN P...

  » ABSTRACTIn a centralized organization, employees are not allowed to participate in decision making. This is because it is feared that they are not competent and as a result will not contribute meaningfully in decision of the organization. The essence of this project research is to assess the impact of employees participation in decision making in Nigerian public sector. The study was designs with ...Continue Reading »

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