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Abstract
This study is on a strong impression of effective management of resources in solving unemployment problem in Awgu local Government Area, how they have carried its operations to bring this phenomenon to its minimum. In order to active this empirical survey and library research were carried out. The sources of data are the administrative questionnaire and oral interview, while the secondary sources includes statistical tools. The research reveals that the local government has not put the necessary machinery in place to tackle unemployment problem. One reason being lack of managerial skill operating in the area. This factor has been a force militating against solving unemployment problem. It was discovered also that the local government under study engages in various activities and schemes, including provision of pipe borne water rural electrification project to attract investor to harness the available natural resources to create employment of the people in the grassroot.
Table of Content
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of Study
1.2 Statements of Problem
1.3 Objective of the Study
1.4 Research Hypothesis
1.5 Significance of the Study
1.6 Scope of the Study
1.8 Definition of Terms
CHAPTER TWO
2.1 Literature Review
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Effective Management Of Resources In Awgu
2.3 Advantages of Effective Management of Resources
2.4 Advantages of Effective Management of Resources
2.5 Problem Generated by Unemployment
2.5.1 Effective Management
CHAPTER THREE
3.1 Design of the Study
3.2 Selection of Population
3.3 Sample Size
3.4 Development of Research Material
3.5 Questionnaires Design
3.6 Research Procedure
3.7 Treatment of Data
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION & ANALYSIS
4.1 Presentation and Analysis of Data
4.2 Summary of results
CHAPTER FIVE
DISCUSSION RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION
5.1 Summary of Finding
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendations
Bibliography
Appendix
Questionnaire
Introduction
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Unemployment has been and stills a major problem in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State. A study recently carried out by researchers shows that about 80% of the labour force in the local government area are unemployed people in Awgu Local Government the people that made up the are youths and young school levers whose number in the labour market is on the increase yearly because of the high rate of people graduating from both the secondary and tertiary institution. A few of them who are employed solely depend on the government and a greater percentage of them depend on the non governmental organization or corporate bodies for their unshed labour which according to Byrness and stone (1981:147) said that people are only employed when they
are unable to work and would be willing to accept a prevailing wage paid to people that posed the skill they have but cannot find or have yet joined suited employment” Byrness believed that a person becomes unemployed when he has a required skill to sell to an employer who is willing to buy his skill for a wage the problem of unemployment can be reduced if the already existing establishment within Agwu local government Area are effectively managed.
The first problem that confronts the young job seeker is hope on getting mainly administrative jobs which with the changing economic trend and high labour cost become very expensive for the employer who will prefer to improve the skill of his staff or computerize his company therefore cutting labour cost and maximizing his profit when this become unemployed with little or no hope of getting employment because of the charging trends of modernization and technological development of labour management based on this short fall in employment becomes problem.
But the way to improve employment is through the effective management of human and material resource in an establishment. Effective management of scarce resources in Awgu Local Government Area will encourage specialization and division of labour which means that more will be also be encourage to exhibit the dexterity in certain skill, so as to perform the tasks more effectively at a
higher rate of output so as to meet the demand of their customers by they specialization is encouraged at opposed to the use of the computer which need few people to feed imformation into them. Effective management of scarce resources in Awgu will reduce unemployment and the dependence on government corporate bodies as the last hope of job seeker for engaging income generating ventures.
As a matter of fact this will put smile on the faces of school leavers who will be assured that they can be gainfully engaged and acquire proficiency in desired skills through their engagement in profitable of any establishment’s the effective management of resources in Agwu- Local Government Area will no doubt eradicate or reduce the social outery about the tills perpetrated by the employed people who as a matter of fact constitute a social menaces to the society. Some of the soil toilers and moilers will however be employed by these establishment
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The problem of how unemployed can be solved by the effective management of resources is the core of the study. The researcher instead to find out what effect effectively managed resources will have in the reduction of unemployment rate in Awgu Local government. The population on which the study will be based on the researcher intends to look at based on the operations of the establishment within the area and how effective the managers of these business or establishment will contribute in the study area
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