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  Assessment of the Measures in Place to Forestall Aviation Aided Spread of Pandemic in Nigeria

  M.S. Stephens, I. Njoku, O.S. Adebimpe

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  Vol.10 , Issue.1 , pp.1-6, Mar-2022

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  The study assessed the measures that have been put in place by the aviation industry of Nigeria to forestall future occurrence of the outbreak of infectious diseases; and evaluate the adequacy of these measures to forestall future outbreaks and spread. The research work majors on the measures in place at Murtala Muhammed International Airport before 2020 outbreak and how adequate those measures are in forestalling future outbreaks and spread of infectious diseases. The research employed the use of primary data obtained from the administration of a well-structured questionnaires. The data collected were analyzed using Likert scale (5 scales). The study shows that, the measures in place are neither adequate or inadequate to curtail future outbreaks of any infectious diseases in Nigeria. This is shown in Table 4.2, which indicates that 0.99% of passengers chose undecided, 16.8% Strongly Agreed, 32.7% went with Agreed, 35.6% Disagreed while 13.9% went for Strongly Disagreed. We then observed from the Likert scale table there was aggregate of 3 (Agrees 49.5%, Disagree 49.5%).

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  Influenza, Transmission, Geographical Information System, World Health Organization

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  M.S. Stephens, I. Njoku, O.S. Adebimpe, "Assessment of the Measures in Place to Forestall Aviation Aided Spread of Pandemic in Nigeria," World Academics Journal of Management, Vol.10, Issue.1, pp.1-6, 2022

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  Employee Empowerment, Employee Satisfaction and Innovative Work Delivery among Polytechnic Academic Staff

  Lynda Osalentin Akhigbe, Ben Pam Wurim

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  Innovative work delivery research can help develop technical workforce of polytechnic graduates. However, so much have not been known about how innovative work delivery can make sustainable and manifest impact on polytechnic academic work delivery. It is on this ground that this study investigated the mediating role of employee satisfaction on employee empowerment and innovative work delivery in the Plateau State Polytechnic. In order to achieve the research objectives, the study adopted a quantitative approach with a sample size of 265 employees and used SPSS package to analyse the data. The results showed that employee empowerment has a positive and significant relationship innovative work delivery (?=0.348, T=5.849, & P=0.000<0.05), and employee satisfaction (?=0.564, T=10.747, & P=0.000<0.05). Employee satisfaction positively and significantly influences innovative work delivery (?=0.587, T=11.423, & P=0.000<0.05); while employee satisfaction has a full mediating effect between employee empowerment and innovative work delivery. It was recommended that the rector, management and National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) should together ensure the consistent upgrade of infrastructural, technological and practical technical framework for polytechnic institutions as a necessary sustenance of the mediating role of employee satisfaction.

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  Employee Empowerment, Employee Satisfaction, Innovative work Behaviour

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  Lynda Osalentin Akhigbe, Ben Pam Wurim, "Employee Empowerment, Employee Satisfaction and Innovative Work Delivery among Polytechnic Academic Staff," World Academics Journal of Management, Vol.10, Issue.1, pp.7-12, 2022

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  Resolving Challenges Related to Local Markets Development in the Dodoma City of Tanzania

  George Julius Babune

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  Vol.10 , Issue.1 , pp.13-19, Mar-2022

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  The paper explored the challenges of local markets development in the Dodoma city. It contends that there are managerial challenges related to local markets development that require the attention of actors to benefit from local goods and services. Using a 90 sample size acquired by systematic random sampling procedures, the study employed the cross-sectional design. The qualitative and quantitative data were generated using observation, documentary review, and interviews with sellers, and buyers of Majengo, Sabasaba, and Bonanza Markets. The study found that the markets experience long distance from sources of goods beyond Dodoma region like Shinyanga and Mbeya regions. The existing scarcity of goods in the wet season also contributes to periodical high cost of goods in the city markets. Markets were faced with poor solid and liquid waste management and storage problems despite valuable revenue generated from them. It concluded that markets have a great contribution to the Dodoma city and the general livelihood of the public yet they had received poor infrastructural development, management and high prices of goods resulting from a periodical scarcity. It was recommended that there is need for the Dodoma city authorities to use effectively the Public-Private Partnership in the management of markets and allow the private sector to build and maintain market centres in the wards. This will redistribute the population by establishing other urban market centres that will add on revenue to own source of the Dodoma City adequately and be able to sustain the availability of goods in the markets.

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  Challenges, Development, Dodoma city & Local markets

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  George Julius Babune, "Resolving Challenges Related to Local Markets Development in the Dodoma City of Tanzania," World Academics Journal of Management, Vol.10, Issue.1, pp.13-19, 2022

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  Urge of Gandhian Village Reconstruction Approach in Covid-19 Milieu

  Mohan Singh

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  Vol.10 , Issue.1 , pp.20-25, Mar-2022

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  Development is basic instinct of human being but the deliberate planning helps in achieving the desired development targets faster and judiciously. Indian development plans have been through varied facet after independent but remained skewed towards most centralised, heavy industrialised and market driven modern concept of development and eventually, our conventional set up of self-sufficient village economy subsided as a means to achieve full employment, comfortable economic condition and socio-economic justice to the rural people. The result of askew policy we get not only widened gap between village and city, poor and rich but also miseries of urbanisation, over dependency, increase in unemployment and hysterical chase of material acquisition. The most recent data on unemployment and poverty concedes helplessness of the existing format of economic development and induces to think about some alternative or supportive system to assimilate the evils of modernisation. Gandhian concept of village-reconstruction in which villages to be develop as self-sufficient economic, social and political unit called republic which may function of principles of equity, equality and humanity. By supporting agriculture and developing related industries opportunity must be created to provide full employment to the rural people to stop migration and exploitation. In this ongoing world pandemic period of Covid-19, the unprecedented return migration to the village and consequent need for their livelihood, urged to devise localised, sustainable and village-oriented development plan may be based on the Gandhian approach of village-reconstruction.

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  Development, Village-Reconstruction, Industrialisation, Self-Reliance

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  Mohan Singh, "Urge of Gandhian Village Reconstruction Approach in Covid-19 Milieu," World Academics Journal of Management, Vol.10, Issue.1, pp.20-25, 2022