Social Work and Administration Research Papers/Topics

Problems of leadership

The link between leadership, management and enterprise performance is widely understood and accepted.  Improving leadership improves management and raises the probabilities of better performance.  That boards often change leaders when enterprises are slipping confirms the importance placed on leadership.The flip side of leadership is followership.  It stands to reason that if leadership is important to performance, followership must have something to do with it too.  But c...

Substance Abuse among undergraduate students. A study of Lagos State University Students

line-height:200%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif""="">ABSTRACT Substance abuse is a social problem that has spread and increased rapidly in our educational institutions even in secondary schools but especially among the under graduate students in Nigeria, this social mal adaptation is considered an issue of serious concern as it adversely affects the lives and performance of students involved as well as the harmonious functioning of the entire structure of the society the theore...

THE ROLE OF MASS MEDIA IN EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERAL A CASE STUDY OF NTA ENUGU

ABSTRACTThis examine the role of mass medial in educational development in Nigeria.  The background centre on the role of mass medial in educational development in Nigeria finding out whether television plays an effective role in formal education.The researcher has attempted to carry out series of analysis and study to confirm that the NTA programme-“Science for schools” actually perform its educational role.This study confirms that the programme actually projects the educational con...

THE INTERNAL AUDITING AS AN INSRUMENT FOR EFFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT (A CASE STUDY OF INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY I.M.T.) ENUGU

ABSTRACTThe variable instrument for the control of the organizational resources is the internal control, which has internal audit as its instrument.  This important father makes the researcher to choose “Internal auditing as an instrument for effective management”.For this project on institution of management and technology (IMT) Enugu as a case studying, the researcher made use of both primary and secondary data.  Structured questionnaires were the method used for the collectio...

THE ROLE OF JOB SATISFACTION ON WORKERS PRODUCTIVITY IN THE HOSPITALITY SECTOR

Abstract The nature of hospitality refers to the sharing of food, drink and accommodation to the people who are not regular members of a household. These people here can be strangers, neighbours, outsiders etc. basically, the host provides food, drink and shelter in their own home and share them with guest without concern for financial payback. Telfer (1996) The hospitality industry is comprised of commercial organizations that specialize in providing accommodation and/or food and/or dri...

The performance of Nigerian manufacturing sector on economic growth in Nigeria

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYManufacturing sector plays a catalytic role in a modern economy and has many dynamic benefits crucial for economic transformation. In typical advanced countries, the manufacturing sector is leading, sector in many respects. It is an avenue for increasing productivity related to import replacement and export expansion, creating foreign exchange earning capacity; and raising employment and per capital income which causes unique consumption patterns. Furthermore, it create...

How Policy and Public Administration can Contribute to National Development

INTRODUCTION:National development can be defined as the development of the people. Public administration represents the system of authority of a government in power, which in many cases make policies that determine a nation's development, this government is therefore saddled with the responsibility of improving the lives of its citizens. The decisions of any government can either improve the lives of its people or bring down the living standards of...

THE PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY SOCIAL WORKERS IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE (A case study of Selected social welfare centres)

ABSTRACT In totality the project is concerning the problem encountered by social workers in social work practice. In details, this project consists of five chapters, the first chapter is the introduction part were the researcher highlights the background, aims, objectives and significance of the study as well as research question. Constitute the chapter one, second chapter the researcher review the different contribution made by authors about the problems encountered by social workers in...

THE EFFECT OF STREET HAWKING AMONG TEENAGE GIRLS

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Nigeria, the most populous black nation in the world with an estimated population of about 140 million people (2006, Census), is endowed with abundant human and natural resources like oil, tin, limestone, zinc, natural gas, good vegetation  and climate which varies from being equatorial in the South, tropical in the centre and arid in the north. This great country, 3rd world largest producer of crude oil has about 5.3% annual growth rate but it is estimated t...

THE EFFECT OF GENDER INEQUALITY ON WOMEN EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

ABSTRACTThe issue of gender inequality is one which has been publicly reverberating through society for decades. The problem of inequality in employment being one of the most pressing issues today in order to examine this situation, one must try to get to the root of the problem and must understand the sociological factors that cause women to have much more difficult time getting the same benefits wages and job opportunities or their male counterparts therefore, this research work will examin...

THE CONTRIBUTION OF YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

INTRODUCTIONIn Nigeria, youth activities date back to the pre-colonial era within youth, in spite of their limited number, organized themselves on age grade basis in their various communities. Today, youth in Nigeria constitute of bulk of the population, from statistics available, persons between the ages of 12 plus and 30 years account for about 43% (forty three percent) of our population. Consequently, youth are not merely an object of passing concern on academic study, but a factor to be r...