PERSONNEL OUTSOURCING AND ORGANIZATION’S COMPETITIVENESS

ABSTRACT The study sought to determine the nature of the relationship between personnel outsourcing and organizational competitiveness, ascertain the extent to which commercial banks outsource their personnel services, identify the areas in which commercial banks outsource personnel services, determine the benefits from outsourcing personnel services. The study had a population size of   613, out of […]

OUTSOURCING SECURITY FUNCTIONS IN MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISE (A CASE STUDY OF TONIMAS NIGERIA LIMITED)

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Vision is the ability to see what change is needed and how it will benefit people when the change is made. The vision of outsourcing business functions to external provider came out of the desire of corporate executives who out of exigency of time purposed to improve […]

OUTSOURCING MANAGEMENT: THE DILEMMA OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES

CHAPTER ONE                                       1.1     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY                   As companies’ attempts to focus on core competences, many are considering outsourcing various aspects of their in-house operations. The rapid growth in outsourcing has occurred because organizations are struggling to cope with the demands on their skills. Aoki 1988- says when products becomes increasingly differentiated and renewed, […]

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND CORPORATE PERFORMANCE. A STUDY OF SELECTED FIRMS IN PORT HARCOURT

ABSTRACT The business environment today has become dynamic that the decision to structure or restructure an organization has become pressingly significant. There has been some serious economic/financial sector reforms in Nigeria due to the fact that performance in the manufacturing and service (banks) firms were not effective and efficient.  It is believed that organizational structure […]

ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS AND IMPACT ON ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Politics seeks to govern a group of people with rules or regulations. It is the whole system directed at acquiring power to rules. This process of acquiring power is affected by a combination of many processes: democracy, autocracy, military, nepotism, plutocracy, and aristocracy, anarchy. Organizational politics earns […]

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AS A STRATEGIC TOOL FOR RE-ENGINEERING (A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED (NITEL)

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY In the business world, there are high levels of uncertainty in the operative activities of business organization.  These uncertainties came to be because of changes in the business environment due to limited resources and the misapplication of the required management technique. It is noteworthy to know that […]

MANPOWER TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE NIGERIAN BANKING INDUSTRY (A CASE STUDY OF CBN ENUGU)

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The task of managing the human component of the business is central and most important task, because the success of any enterprise depends entirely on the effectiveness of its human resources on their job. Human being per se is not a “resource”. He becomes a resource only […]

MANAGING THE HUMAN RESOURCES OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS IN A DEPRESSED ECONOMY

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Organizations are increasingly looking at human resources as unique assets that can provide sustained competitive advantage. The changes in business environments with increasing globalization, changing demographics of the workforce, increased focus on profitability through growth, technological changes, intellectual capital and the never ending changes that organizations are […]

MANAGING PERSONNEL SERVICES IN A MISSION HOSPITAL: A STUDY OF BISHOP SHANAHAN HOSPITAL, NSUKKA IN NSUKKA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ENUGU STATE

CHAPTER ONE 1.0       Introduction 1.1       Background of the Study Before the advent of private hospitals, mission hospitals had existed side by side with few Government-owned hospitals otherwise known as General Hospitals.  Nowadays, however, almost all over Nigeria, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of hospital of various types and sizes.  This can […]

MANAGING INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN SELECTED BREWING FIRMS IN SOUTH EAST NIGERIA

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION  Background of the Study The commencement of the Industrial Revolution is linked to a number of innovations, beginning in the second half of the 18th century. By the 1830s the following gains had been made in important technologies: textile, steam power, iron making, machine tools, chemicals, cement, gas lighting, glass making, paper […]