underdevelopment at the grass root of the Nigerian society and politics has made it imperative for this paper to focus on the role of traditional institutions and Local Government Administration in Nigeria as agent that are supposed to enhance and promote development in the rural area. The basic argument of the paper is that during Pre-colonial days in Nigeria, traditional rulers enjoyed full power in their Kingdom, command respect and obedience from their subject; however colonialisation and basternialization
employee becoming the highly priced capital in the company and this has been the birth to the concept of Human Resource Management (HR). These days, business world is undergoing a significant change .The traditional Human Resource style fails to draw level with such rapid changes. The traditional style mainly focuses on encouraging personnel activities of a company. It is an unassertive, submissive execution, without self-motivated participation into strategic issue to envisage the challenges of tomorrow
Honda Motor Company Q1: Prepare a chronology for what you regard as the key events/concepts/decisions that characterize Honda’s “attack” on the North American motorcycle industry and help to explain its success. Year Key events/concepts/decisions 1946 The Honda Research Institute was established. This institute, dedicated to improvements in internal combustion engines, represented Honda’s opening move in the motorcycle field. 1947 Honda introduced its first A-type, 2-stroke engine 1948 Honda’s Japanese
time in European politics. We have seen and felt the effects of both economic prosperity and vast recession and we can now analyse the political implications that this brought about since the economic crisis broke out. The results have changed the traditional political landscapes in many countries, but have also changed the way parties do business, to varying degrees. Recent trends and election results would suggest that the parties that were once seen as natural parties of government (a UK example:
always been globally underrepresented in the major decision –making processes in the political as well as in the private sector. This low participation is due to various societal norms that plays a major role in the lower participation of women. Leadership and political sphere is still considered as a ‘dirty area’ from which women needs to be protected. Also women are considered to be following social norms which would dictate them there domestic role. Despite these challenges women has made a remarkable
This chapter focuses on broad review of various literature and models on the research topic. The researcher consulted books, articles, and journals from EBSCO library, search engines and other relevant sources. These materials provide an insightful depth in the study thereby demonstrating the efficacy of developing an effective performance appraisal strategy as a tool for enhancing employee motivation. Key words: Performance Appraisal, Motivation, performance management, human resource management
MARKET-ORIENTED REFORMS IN PUBLIC SECTOR: A CASE STUDY OF LAHORE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BACKGROUND New Public Management (NPM), a public sector reforms started from 1980’s onwards. It is formally conceptualized by Hood in 1991. United Kingdom claims to have been its birthplace; many papers and researches providing evidences from UK. These NPM reforms are widespread and the Anglo-American countries and International organizations are among its strong advocates. In many developing countries including
A STUDY ON VERTICAL MOBILITY OF EMPLOYEES IN PRIVATE BANKING SECTOR WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CUDDALORE DISTRICT CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION TO BANKING Bank is defined in many ways by various authors in the book son economics and commerce. It is very difficult to define a bank; because a bank performs multifarious functions may be defined in many ways according to their functions. The evolution of different types of banks, each specializing in a particular field, gives emphasis on each
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION “History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of