Browsing by Author "Isiaq Abdulwaheed Atanda"
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Item Organizational Factors Affecting Employees’ Commitment: A Study of Global Soap and Detergent Industry, Ilorin(Department of Sociology, Faculty of the Social Sciences, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti., 2017) Abdulbaqi Salihu Zakariya; Alaya Hafeez Ibrahim; Isiaq Abdulwaheed Atanda; Balogun Obasanjo SolomonAll commitment-based organizations have come to term with believe that employees organizational commitment contributes in no small measure to workforce stability, better customer service, increase business performance and productivity. In this study therefore, the researcher explores the factors which are likely to affect employees' organizational commitment in a manufacturing industry. A quantitative survey was conducted and data was collected by personally administered questionnaires from 147 respondents consisting of both management and staff of Global Soaps and Detergent Industry Ilorin. The data collected was processed and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics including Chi square and SPSS version 20. The results reveal that there is a significant relationship between different organizational factors and commitment of staff of the industry. Regression Co-efficient results also show that all factors that predicts organizational commitment are positively related. Factors affecting the organizational commitment of the workers include reward support from supervisor favourable conditions of the job among others. This Study has implications for managers HR Practitioners by exerting efforts in a way that organizations can easily retain their experienced human capital and reduce turnover. The findings also recommend that commitment-based organizations need to continue to reinforce organizational support for their staff to strengthen organizational commitment.Item Save the Ship: De-Marketising the Economy of Urban Violence in Nigeria(Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria., 2015) Isiaq Abdulwaheed Atanda; Aluko Opeyemi Idowu; Adedoyin Festus FataiThis paper contributes to the discourse on the challenges, possibilities of imagining order and the other in a globalizing world plagued by disorder and otherness. It epitomized a market of violence traded by some actors for personal satisfaction regardless of the havoc within the community These actors should be identified and redefined so as to incorporate their goals in a model that can solve the issues of disorder in Nigeria. The Research questions poised as why is the organized market for violence. persisting in Nigeria? What are the resultant effects on the average Nigerian? The methodology adopted is descriptive statistical method which analyses the perceptions of two thousand four hundred Nigerian on the level of safety and trust in the government. The study was originally conducted by Afrobarometer. The theoretical framework adopts Merton strain theory. Recommendations are directed to both the government and the general populace on the need to strengthen the security level and to breakdown the buying and selling process in the market for urban violence in the polity. No society is free of violence but the level can be minimized and controlled through identifying the actors and prosecuting them appropriately.