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Zagorsek, Hugo, Marko Jaklic, and Stanley J. Stough. "Comparing leadership practices between the United States, Nigeria, and Slovenia: does culture matter?" Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal 11, no. 2 (2004): 16–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13527600410797774.
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The article explores the impact of culture on leadership practices in three countries in culturally and economically different regions: the United States, Slovenia, and Nigeria. It uses the visionary approach to leadership as developed by Kouzes and Posner (1987), who have identified five leadership practices (actions or behaviors) employed by effective leaders. Hypotheses about expected differences in the usage of those practices were developed on the basis of Hofstede’s (1980) country score. The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI: Kouzes & Posner, 1993) was used to collect self‐ratings from 351 MBA students in the respective countries. Contrary to expectations, the data reveals that there are not many significant differences between the leadership practices of American, Nigerian, and Slovenian MBA students, suggesting that some charismatic leadership behaviors may be universally practiced. Some differences to occur in the leadership practices of Modeling the Way and Enabling Others Act. Culture seems to affect gender differences in leadership practices. These differences are greatest for Nigerian respondents and smallest for Slovenian MBA students.
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Olowookere, Elizabeth I., Benedict C. Agoha, Dare O. Omonijo, Jonathan A. Odukoya, and Ayotunde O. Elegbeleye. "Cultural Nuances in Work Attitudes and Behaviors: Towards a Model of African Work Culture." Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 10, no. 2 (2021): 259. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/ajis-2021-0056.
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This study explored managers’ perception of the work behaviors and attitudes of Nigerian workers with reference to Nigeria’s cultural orientation and the global culture. It compared Japan, USA and Nigeria on Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, work culture and organizational outcomes. Descriptive survey design and purposive sampling technique were used in data collection. A total of 131 managers (74 males and 57 females) from manufacturing organizations in Ota, Ogun State were interviewed. The structured interview comprised of 12 statements on work attitudes and behaviors to which respondents agreed or disagreed and made remarks. Four research questions were asked and answered using frequency distribution. The result showed that greater percentage of managers perceived Nigerian workers to require close supervision, sanctions and coercion in driving compliance with organizational rules. Workers were also perceived to be motivated mostly by pay, rewards and benefits. However, only about half of the respondents agreed that Nigerian workers are self-centered and individualistic. Lastly, they perceived that given the right circumstances, Nigerian workers are highly resourceful and capable of participative decision-making and mutual responsibility. This study concluded that Nigeria as well as Japan have collectivist cultures while America has individualistic culture. Although collectivism has paid off as evinced in the successes of Japanese companies, Nigerian organizations, like many others in Africa, have been victims of acculturation with adverse consequences for organizational growth. Hence, a model of African work culture was recommended, one that should not jettison indigenous cultures, but ensure an effective blend with global best practices.
 
 Received: 2 September 2020 / Accepted: 1 November 2020 / Published: 5 March 2021
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Agbara, Clara Unoalegie Bola. "Politeness Indicators in Nigeria Legislative Discourse." Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature 5, no. 1 (2018): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.30605/ethicallingua.v5i1.679.
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In every human interaction, interlocutors strive to maintain appropriate decorum and politeness in order to avoid undue feeling of not being ‘nice’ or being insensitive to co-participant’s self-esteem or image. This culture of being ‘nice’ is expressed not only through verbal codes, but also through non-verbal cues such as pitch, tone, voice modulation, facial expression and other forms of body language. Nigeria legislative House reflects the uniqueness of Nigeria as a multicultural nation with about two hundred and fifty ethnic groups. Each tribe has a unique way of expressing ‘nice’ (politeness). This paper examines how Nigerian legislators from different ethnic groups acknowledge the self-esteem of other legislators during senate debates. The study used Scollon and Scollon’s politeness principle which states that in every interaction there is a continuous ‘face’ (self-image) negotiation and this ‘face’ which is made up of two aspects - involvement and independent- must be balanced during interactions because ‘face’ is a paradoxical concept. The interest of this study is to identify and to explain how politicians, who though are in opposition, acknowledge the self-esteem of others. Six hansards were sampled from 2009 to 2010, one bill from each quarter of the year. It was discovered that speakers almost always punctuate their contributions to debate with different types of politeness indicators as a means of acknowledging both the involvement and dependent face wants of participants. The politeness indicators often used by senators include address forms which are used not only as vocative (to the presiding senator) but also as designative (for reference to a third person mentioned in the speech), first person plural pronouns, rhetorical (speech) politeness markers and ritualized utterances.
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Babatunde, Kamaldin Abdulsalam, and Siti Ezaleila Mustafa. "Culture and Communication: Effects of Cultural Values and Source Credibility in a Multicultural Society, Nigeria." Jurnal Pengajian Media Malaysia 20, no. 2 (2018): 39–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/jpmm.vol20no2.4.
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Coming from a psychological view of self concepts related theories: schemata and self construal, we investigated the effectiveness of celebrity endorsement in a multicultural society-African context. The study was to examine whether the celebrity endorsement strategy is effective in Africa culture as claimed in some studies. We used focus group discussions comprising people of different ethnic backgrounds in Nigeria. Findings indicate that celebrity endorsement is not effective in Nigeria cultural context and that African audience perceptions of source credibility are markedly different from the Western societies’. However, the study reveals that for celebrity endorsement effectiveness, cultural values play an important role. Recommendations for advertising managers and marketers are discussed as well as suggestions for future research.
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Ubogu, Rowell. "Entrepreneurship Education: Challenges and Strategies towards Promoting Entrepreneurship in Higher Education in Nigeria." Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 9, no. 5 (2020): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/ajis-2020-0091.
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Entrepreneurship education has great success in the field of education. Its activity has increased significantly in the USA, Asian and European countries during the last decades. Nevertheless, the training programme in developing countries like Nigeria has concentrated more on teaching knowledge and skills basically in principle. Products of these training are expected to be engaged in either self-employment or being employed. Unfortunately, the Niger-delta region of Nigeria is characterized by high levels of youth restiveness, unemployment, poverty and crime. Attempting to solve these ill, the questionnaire titled Entrepreneurship Education and Students challenges (EESC) was used to gather data from eight hundred and sixty-four students sampled from faculty of education and social sciences in Niger-delta region universities of Nigeria. The study identified various challenges, prospects and government efforts aimed at building the entrepreneurship culture among undergraduate students of Nigerian Universities especially graduates of the Niger-delta region. The study concluded by postulating certain recommendations which if adopted will drastically reduce the social vices faced in this region.
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Olufemi Badru, Ronald. "Nigeria and the Deficit of National Cohesion: Exploring the Political Philosophy of a Third Culture in the Post-Centennial Era." Culture and Dialogue 6, no. 2 (2018): 151–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24683949-12340048.
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AbstractThis exercise that straddles political philosophy and philosophy of culture is to constructively dialogue with the hitherto deficit of national cohesion in Nigeria in the post-centennial era. Employing the research methods of conceptual mapping, critical analysis, reflective argumentation, and historical data, the work advances as its problem statement that the deficit of national cohesion in Nigeria has been a fundamental issue for a long time, which has manifested in various ethnic and religious conflicts in society, taking the conflictual phenomena as the core of the deficit of national integration. The thesis statement of the study is that, if the post-centennial Nigeria is to achieve any substantial national cohesion in the midst of ethno-religious pluralism, then a form of third culture (TC), a culture of positive integration of the essentials of the self culture (SC) and the other culture (OC) ought to be conscientiously developed among Nigerians. But, to successfully develop this third culture, its philosophical dimensions, that is, its epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and logic must be explored and made intelligible to all. Therefore, a systematic exposition of the philosophical dimensions of the third culture and the process of ultimate realization of their prescriptions constitute the goals of the present study.
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Abada, Ifeanyichukwu Michael, Paul Hezekiah Omeh, Obinna Augustine Ovaga, and Ikedi John Ugwuanyi. "Fiscal Federalism and Challenges of National Development in Nigeria." European Journal of Social Sciences 3, no. 1 (2020): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejss.v3i1.p100-107.
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In emerging and developmental state of Nigeria, the construct of federalism has continued to attract gamut of attentions due to its configuration and cosmetic nature. The Nigerian state since amalgamation of the 1914 and subsequent constitutional development that ushered in federalism, revenue allocations and transfers of resource control had become contending issues and debates that had propelled lingering questions on Nigerian federal practices. The witness is the persistent struggle for redrafting of revenue allocation parameters and quest for restructuring. The most worrisome is the power of government at the centre determining what constitutes revenue allocations and how it would be shared among the federating units. However, it is against this backdrop that the study appreciates the intergovernmental fiscal relations, institutions and measures aimed at controlling excesses and imbalances amongst the tiers of government in Nigeria. Methodologically, the study utilized documentary method and data were generated through the secondary sources and analyzed in content. The framework of analysis for the study was anchored on the power theory. The findings of the study had adequately revealed that components and federating units are engulfed with myriads of developmental challenges due to the nature and character of the fiscal and federal deficits. Therefore, the paper recommends the need for defined statutory role of each and culture of self reliant among the tiers of government.
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Ogunjimi, Bayo. "The Herd Instinct and Class Literature in Nigeria Today." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 20, no. 2 (1992): 12–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700501498.
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Right from the period of colonialism the herd or cult of the national bourgeoisie has been consistent in its chicanery of reifying, alienating and approximating the social existence of the peasants, the working class and other oppressed social strata. They operate the political culture from various levels of fetishisms as politicians, businessmen, professionals, religious prelates, feudal oligarchies and cultic forces. Set against the masses is the conglomerate of the class referred to by Wole Soyinka as the “self-consolidating regurgitative lumpen Mafiadom of the military, the old politicians and business enterprises” (The Man Died, London, Andre Deutsche Ltd., 1972, p. 181). This class consists of those that Frantz Fanon refers to as the conduit pipes and errand boys of international monopoly capital.
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Ezenwal, Michael, O., Nnaemeka, C. Abamara, and Evelyn, O. Ozoude. "Influence of Self-Esteem and Demographic Variables on Anxiety among Female Nurses." Research in Health Science 1, no. 2 (2016): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/rhs.v1n2p110.
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<p><em>The study examined the influence of self esteem and demographic variables on anxiety among female nurses. Sixty nurses selected from surgery and emergency units of University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu.</em><em> </em><em>Enugu state Nigeria were used in the study. The Index of Self Esteem (ISE) developed by Hudson (1982), was used as one of the research instruments to measure self esteem and was validated in Nigeria by Onighaiye (1996) which has 25 items and state trait anxiety inventory (STAIY-I) developed by Spielberger (1983) was used to measure general anxiety and was validated in Nigeria by Omoluabi (1987). The design for the study was 2x3 factorial design, while 3 way analysis of variance was adopted as the appropriate statistical tool to test the hypotheses postulated. The result indicated that the first hypothesis which stated that; there will be a significant difference between high and low self esteem on anxiety among female nurses was accepted at P&lt;.05 level of significance. The second hypothesis which stated that, there will be a significant difference between emergency unit and surgery unit on anxiety among female nurses was accepted at P&lt;.05. The third hypothesis which stated that, there will be a significant difference between short service and long service on anxiety among female nurses was accepted at P&lt;.05. The fourth hypothesis which stated that, there will be a significant interaction influence of self esteem, hospital units and years of service on anxiety among female nurses was accepted at P&lt;.05. The result vividly showed that nurses generally manifest anxiety with respect to self esteem and irrespective of hospital unit and year of working experience at P&lt;.05. These results were discussed in line with health care delivery system and culture in Nigeria and their implications stated. </em><em>Based on </em><em>the findings, the researchers therefore recommended that clinical Psychologists should be employed in various critical units (Emergency and Surgery) to help nurses to cope with anxiety and other psychological problems.</em><em></em></p>
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Austin, Williams, and Faith Adebayo. "Lean Implementation Barriers and the duality of lean in an Organisations." Applied Journal of Economics, Management and Social Sciences 2, no. 1 (2021): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.53790/ajmss.v2i1.6.
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Lean strategy is all about elimination of waste and redundant process; competitive benchmarking, introducing continuous improvement programs, preventive maintenance optimization, cycle time reduction, just-in-time (JIT), new process improvement, quality management programs, value engineering, self-directed work team, total quality management. The study investigates how people and duality of lean impacts lean implementation in organizations, looking at the case of the food processing manufacturing firms in Nigeria. To achieve the objective, the study employed Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) using data collected from 340 questionnaire collected from food processing firms in Nigeria. It was discovered from the study that factors hindering implementation of lean could be in the form of poor communication strategy within organisation, organizational culture, organisational knowledge, management support, policies on human development. The paper concludes that lean implementation does not have a stand-alone methodology, but the existence or lack of the identified factors may make or hinder successful implementation of lean especially in the food processing manufacturing companies in Nigeria.