CAPACITY PLANNING AND PERFORMANCE IN THE NIGERIAN BREWING INDUSTRY IN SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA

CHAPTER ONE 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Capacity Planning has enhanced the performance of the brewing industry in Nigeria right from 1946 when Nigerian Breweries Limited set up the First Brewery in Nigeria (Nigerian Breweries PLC, 2011). The direction has been to increase the number of breweries. Guinness Nigeria Plc set up a Brewery in … Read more

BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE BANKING AND MANUFACTURING SECTOR

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study BPR could be described as a process that contributes to each company’s transformation in a bid to achieve a radical and dramatic improvement .BPR would continue to remain constant in our business activities as a means to restructure our aging processes to achieve the strategic objectives of … Read more

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIAN COMMERCIAL BANKS CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Right from the early influences Business Process Management at the informal level has continued to exist even in the trade by barter era. There was a situation where goods were being exchanged without the use of money system, management was relevant because of group relationships that were aimed … Read more

BUILDING HUMAN CAPITAL FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF MICROFINANCE BANKS IN NIGERIA

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The ability of any organization to execute its strategy and achieve its goals depends on how it can attract, organize, develop and manage its human resources effectively. Any organization that aspires to a positive change or improved quality service delivery would as a matter of necessity strive to … Read more

BENCHMARKING AS A PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY (A CASE STUDY OF THREE MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN ABA, ABIA STATE)

CHAPTER ONE                                       INTRODUCTION 1.1    BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Organizations vary in their performances. Some register high performance while some register low performance. Even, some organizations’ performances show a cyclical trend over a long period of time. However, high performance can be maintained for a relatively long period if organizations take necessary measures to avoid … Read more

BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL IN PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS (A CASE STUDY OF WARRI PETROCHEMICAL COMPANY)

CHAPTER ONE 1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Public sector organizations are government owned enterprises established to provide specialized products and /or services in the economy. People from diverse interests are appointed by government to make policies as well as handle the day to day running of these organizations. Usually, the aim of government in establishing … Read more

BALANCE SCORECARD: KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AS A PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT TOOL. A CASE STUDY OF ZENITH BANK PLC

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY From the beginning, it is important to understand why measuring an organization’s performance is both necessary and vital. An organization operating without a performance measurement system is like an airplane flying without a compass or a CEO operating without a strategic plan. The purpose of measuring performance is … Read more

ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE BANKING REFORMS ON THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY

chapter 1 1.0   introduction There is a fair agreement in the literature that economic reforms, especially what came to be tagged structural adjustment programs (SAP), have almost always been mounted in response to national financial distress whose foundation could be traced to macroeconomic distortions (World Bank 1986). While such distress manifest mainly as deep economic … Read more

ASSESSMENT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET ON THE SUSTAINABILITY OF SELECTED SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN SOUTH-EAST, NIGERIA

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Interest in the functioning of the human mind can be traced back to Plato and Aristotle who dealt with issues of perception and motivation. While the Greeks may have contemplated the human condition, the modern study of the human mind can be traced back to Sigmund Freud (1900) … Read more

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF OVERDEPENDENCE ON OIL REVENUE TO NIGERIA ECONOMY

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Oil is a major source of energy in Nigeria and the world in general. Before the advent of oil (Crude oil), agriculture used to be the mainstay of the Nigerian economy which plays a vital role in shaping the economic and political destiny of the country (Abolaji1985:2). In … Read more

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