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The nexus of employers demands and employability skills in Oyo State Nigeria: implications on japa syndrome
(2023-06) Adio, V.; Gbadamosi, T. V.
This study examines the required employability skills and how important is such employability skills to an employer of labours in Oyo State, Nigeria. Two research questions were answered. The study adopted the sequential mixed methods research design. The multi-stage sampling procedure was used in this study. The economic sectors were stratified into seven sectors in Ibadan Metropolis. 20 employers of labour were selected from each sector using a convenience sampling technique. A total of 140 employers were used for the study. 10 human resources managers were purposively selected as Key informants for interview sections using an interview guide. Two validated instruments of reliability of 0.75 and 0.78 respectively were used to collect the data. Quantitative data were analysed using the descriptive statistic of frequency count, percentage, mean, and standard deviation while qualitative data were content analysed and thematically interpreted. The results obtained revealed that employers strongly agreed that communication, Information Communication and Technology, Problem-Solving, Analytical, Personality, Adaptability, Team Work, and Leadership skills were essential for graduates to have in order to be employable. It can therefore be inferred that the possession of a certificate is only to attest to the fact that someone has been trained in formal settings. Job seekers should display good communication skills, organisation skill, creativity, teamwork, planning, and so on, which are in high demand by the employers of labour. Among others, some recommendations were made that the management of various educational institutions should put more emphasis on experiential learning to gain practical experience through service learning, internships, volunteer work, teaching practice, or part-time jobs to expose learners to employability skills in terms of, organisation skill, creativity, teamwork and, planning. Also, counselling section should be put in place to re-orientate the graduate on Japa syndrome among others.
Impact of quality of work life on performance level of adult and non formal education employees in Oyo and Lagos states
(2010-12) Oladeji, S, O.; Omokhabi, A. A
This study was carried-out to find out the impact of work life on performance level of adult and non-formal education employees in Oyo and Lagos slates. Nigeria. The descriptive survey of the ex-past facto type was adopted as the resign design. The population comprised all the employees of Adult and Non formal Education Agency in Oyo (167) and Lagos Stale (189) respectively. The sample size consisted of 50 respondents from each state and was randomly selected through the simple random sampling technique. A set of questionnaire lagged "Impact of Quality of Work Life and Performance Level of Employees Scale" (0.79) was used to obtain data for the four hypotheses postulated for the study. Data obtained were analysed through simple percentages and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. Findings showed that there was a significant relationship between <0.05), organizational support and performance level (r=0.69 P <0.05). personal/family life and performance level (r=0.55 P <0.05), as well as personal health/wellbeing and performance level (r=0.55 P <0.05) of Adult and Non-Formal Education employees. Based on the findings, the study recommended that Adult and Non Formal Education Agencies have to intensify efforts, particularly in organizational policy and management style, towards improving the employees Quality of work life
Socio-economic factors as determinants of employees’ commitment in a selected organization in Ibadan
(2022) Akinyooye, F. E.; Osainika, A. E
The commitment of employees in an Organization is very important especially in Service providing public Organization. Despite various studies on the determinants of employees' commitment, little studies have examined the influence of socio-economic factors on employees' commitment. This study therefore, investigates employees' educational qualification and income on commitment in a selected Organization in Ibadan. The study adopted descriptive design with multi-stage sampling techniques. About 250 employees were selected into the study, their ages ranged between 20 and 59years, mean of 41.7 white Standard deviation of 8.27. Structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The result showed that educational qualification significantly influenced employee's commitment (F[5,249] =3.05;P<05). Employees with primary school certificate (x=61.00; SD=0.01) significantly different from other employees with OND/NCE (x Diff=15.26; Std Error=6.13; P<.05), B.Sc./BEn/BA (x Diff.=15.01; Std Error=6.10; P<.05), and Postgraduate (x_Diff.= 16.94; Std Error=6.22; P<.05); however, not significantly different from employees with SSCE (x Dijf.=10.27; Std Error=6.57; P>.05) on employees' commitment. Therefore, employees with primary school certificates contributed to the significance of educational qualification on employees' commitment. More so, income significantly predicts employee commitment (R2=.14, R=.38; ß=.38; F (1,248) = 41.75; P<.01). The income of employees accounted for 14% variance that occurred in employees' commitment. The study concluded that income of the employees including their bonus, allowances and other benefits should be closely paid attention to, while considering educational qualification of the employees especially when recruiting and allocating employees into job units

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