Browsing by Author "Aliyu, Mustapha"

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    Analysis of contemporary labour market and unemployment spectrums in Nigeria.
    (Ilorin Journal of Human Resource Management, 2020-08) Anyim, Francis; Shadare, Oluseyi; Chidi, Chris; Ideh, Dumebi; Aliyu, Mustapha
    The study analysed a contemporary labour market and unemployment spectrums in Nigeria. The stratified sampling technique was employed to select 50 respondents from the Head Offices of five (5) HR Consulting Firms and 300 job seekers in Nigeria, making a total of 350 respondents. The findings revealed that the presence of expatriates in Nigeria labour market has a significant relationship with the rate of unemployment in Nigeria and that reforms and regulations in the labour market have a significant relationship with the unemployment situation in Nigeria. The study concluded that the presence of expatriates and labour market reforms and regulation correlates with the unemployment situation in Nigeria. The study, hence recommends that there is need for the Nigerian government to implement a broad set of employment generation strategies that can help abridge unemployment, for instance, fighting corruption in all sectors of the nation’s economy, invest more on entrepreneurship education, facilitating work environment for foreign direct investment, provision adequate power supply, among others.
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    Analysis of psychological contracts and discretionary behaviour in Nigerian Academics: The role of Academic Staff Union of Universities
    (Journal of Economic Behaviour, 2022) Aliyu, Mustapha
    In the history of tertiary education in Nigeria, there had been incessant strikes to draw the Government’s attention to a range of problems that have continued to hinder the education sector. Despite the various phases of industrial action, embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), this action has not been able to bring a permanent solution to its demand. As a result, the study examines the analysis of psychological contracts in Nigerian academics: the role of academics’ staff union of Universities. The study was anchored on social contract theory to explain how every human competes with each other for the resources they desire. in-depth interview (IDI) was employed to collect qualitative data from two management staff members (from the registry unit) and two members of the Academic Staff Union (from the ASUU leadership). Thematic analysis was used to transcribe, identify, and analyze the data collected from IDI. The qualitative findings revealed that university academics were dissatisfied with their working conditions, underfunding, shortages of facilities and equipment, and, most importantly, the quality of service, which had resulted in multiple industrial unrests, brain-drain, and plans to transfer high-skilled academics to other universities. The study found that the Breach of Psychological Contracts (BPC) affected academics in a variety of ways, with a preference for Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) and Deviant Workplace Behaviour (DWB). Unfortunately, the proclivity for DWB surpassed the proclivity for OCB. It was recommended that building psychological linkages between organizational and staff goals should help universities integrate employee behavior
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    Research and Training as Panacea for Unlocking Human Potential for Sustainable Economic Development in Nigeria
    (2017) Abogunrin, Abiodun; Aliyu, Mustapha; Abogunrin, Omolade
    Research and training has occupied a position of priority in corporate world for achieving set goals but what has not been common in the quest for developing nations like Nigeria to create sustainable economic is optimal use of potential hugely deposited in human resources. Yet, people of a nation are the ones responsible for the development of their lots through continuous improvement on themselves. In this paper, research and training are conceptualized linking economic development to research and training of human resources in all facet of economic life. The paper suggested that human potential available in every person in the nation be exposed to continuous research and training for creating sustainable economic development in Nigeria.