IMPACT OF VALUE MANAGEMENT IN ENHANCING WORKERS’ PRODUCTIVITY OF SELECTED MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN SOUTH EAST, NIGERIA

Many enterprises suffer low productivity because of poor management that lead to huge overhead cost and the resultant inability to take on new projects or products. This phenomenon has continued to send organizations to early liquidation. Without good cost and quality management organizations face the risk that operating expenses may exceed revenues such that they are unable to survive on the long-run and ultimately may be faced with failure.  The study focused on impact of value management

Nweze, Austin Uche PhD. (Nig), Ejim, Emeka Patrick PhD. (Nig), Onah, Sylvester Chukwuma, PhD, Nweke, Benedict Okafor

EFFECTS OF OIL PRICE VOLATILITY ON FOREIGN EXCHANGE OF MAJOR OIL PRODUCING COUNTRIES IN AFRICA

Major oil producing countries in Africa are a mono-product economy, where their main export commodity is crude oil, changes in oil prices has implications on their economy and, in particular, exchange rate. The latter is mostly important due to the multiple dilemma of being an oil producing, oil exporting and oil-importing countries; a situation that emerged in the last decade. Hence, this study explored oil price volatility on foreign exchange of major oil producing countries in Africa; the

Edewusi, D.G, Duru, C.J.

IMPROVING POWER PLANT PERFORMANCE THROUGH ISO IMPLEMENTATION: THE PLACE OF CORPORATE CULTURE

Reliability and quality of electricity are important for industrial operations. A reliable power generation system and well-organized management pay special attention to these two aspects. The company implements a quality management system, ISO 9001:2015 to maintain consistency and improve power plant performance. In addition, the implementation of corporate culture is expected to improve organizational performance. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of ISO implementation and

Juana Mahfiza, Djiteng Himawan

WOMEN HEADED HOUSEHOLDS: A THEORETICAL EVALUATION OF THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES

In most nations, women are not regarded household heads until there is no adult male living continuously in the home. In India, a female headed household is described as one in which the woman is the primary breadwinner due to divorce, separation, immigration, or widowhood. Housewives are one of society's most disadvantaged groups, facing a slew of barriers, limits, evils, and hardships. Women-headed homes are more than twice as likely to be impoverished as all other households. Respondents'

Dr. G. Lebni

COVID-19 IMPACT ON THE OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE AND FIRM VALUE THROUGH FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

 This research aims to indentify the role of financial performance in mediating the influence of ownership structure mechanism that proxied by institutional ownership and ownership of management on th e value of companies listed onLQ45 index during epidemic of Covid 19. The population of research is companies listed on LQ45 index during Quarter 1st 2020 to Quarter 1st 2021. In this study, a sample is chosen by purposive sampling, obtained 29 companies followed by 145 observation data.

Wafiyudin Pratama, Sabilla Tresnawati

GROUP DYNAMICS MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

Performance of road infrastructure projects is crucial for the growth and development of the economy. However, firms especially the local firms experience problems in enhancing team work and cohesion to enable them complete projects within the budgeted cost, time schedule and attaining the desired quality. Despite the crucial role played by project group dynamics management in determining the performance of road infrastructure projects, little attention has been paid to this key factor. This

Dr. Maendo Ochenge Densford

EFFECT OF CULTURE AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS ON FEMALE ENTREPRENURSHIP IN ENUGU STATE

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts etc. Thus, it can be seen as the growth of a group identity fostered by social patterns unique to the group. Around the globe, women participate less in paid economic activities than men. There is gender gap in labour force participation. Women participate less, and when they do participate, they are often conscribed to different,

Nweze Austin Uche PhD, Ajagu Eyuche Helen PhD, Ejim Emeka Patrick PhD, Nweke Benedict Okafor

REALITY OF FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT IN PALESTINIAN HOSPITALS, CASE OF “ALMAKASSED ISLAMIC CHARITABLE SOCIETY HOSPITAL”

This study aimed to assess the reality of financial risk management in Palestinian hospitals, case of Al-Makassed Islamic Charitable Hospital in Jerusalem. Cross-Sectional Descriptive Analytic designs were used in this study at the Al-Makassed Islamic Charitable Hospital in Jerusalem. All employees in the administrative and financial department equal 32 and 60 patients, equally divided for open and closed units at Al-Makassed Islamic Charitable Hospital. Total mean for employee’s agreement

Mahmoud Ooroubah, Faron Sama, Baraka Firas, Bayyoud Mohammed, Darwish Nidal, Ahmad Sayyad Nermeen

EXCHANGE RATE MODERATION OF STOCK RETURN: IMPLICATION FOR ORGANIZATIONAL PROFITABILITY, LIQUIDITY AND SOLVABILITY

The objective of this research is to analyze the effect of profitability, liquidity and solvability on stock return with exchange rate as moderation variable. Research population is 23 food & beverage companies listed at the Indonesia Stock Exchange on the period 2016-2019. The type of the data was secondary data acquired from the annual financial statements displayed on the websites of Indonesia Stock Exchange and Bank of Indonesia. Sample was obtained with saturated sampling technique

Ulupui Suyati, Sirait Sensoy

ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION VALIDITY USING AI-GENERATED ONE-OFF QUESTIONNAIRES

Strategic decision-making is a precise craft that usually happens under time pressure. And often, the data for such decision-making is not (enough) available in the corporate data warehouse: you have to ask employees. This employee polling is usually very time-consuming. In this study, a novel approach is developed that couples artificial intelligence (AI) and a specific survey scale format to make one-off questionnaires in near real-time. We tested such AI-generated one-off questionnaires

Dr. Plewis Mason Zechmeister, Streiner Norman Cairney, Van de Poll