Browsing by Author "Okunola, John Lola"

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    Community Participation: A Pragmatic Solution to Negative Impacts of COVID-19 on Household's Socioeconomic Lives.
    (Insight into Regional Development, 2021-12-30) Okunola, John Lola
    The worldwide outbreak of COVID-19 and its impacts have become an academic concern. The concern has generated a plethora of studies and reports that have identified a number of negative impacts of COVID-19 on household socioeconomic lives in Nigeria. Therefore, Nigerian governments at different levels in conjunction with several international organisations have tried to deal with these impacts; however, the expected result is far below the reality. Advocacy of adopting bottom-top approaches to solving various community problems and the grand relevance of Community-Based Organisations (CBOs), as a form of community participation, prompted this study. The specific objective of the study was to investigate the roles of CBOs in complementing the governments’ efforts to alleviate the negative impacts on household socioeconomic lives. The location of the study was Ife-East Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria where there existed a number of various CBOs as in other part of the country. The study was cross-sectional and exploratory in nature while a qualitative method, in-depth face-to-face interview, was employed to collect the primary data for this study. The study covered all the 10 electoral wards that exist in the study location. Via purposive sampling method, 5 CBOs were selected in each of the 10 wards, making a total size of 50 CBOs. To obtain the primary data, 2 CBO leaders (a man and a woman) and 4 CBO members (2 men and 2 women) among the 5 selected CBOs in each of the wards were purposively selected, making a total sample size of 60 from all the electoral wards for the in-depths face-to-face interview. Both thematic and contents analyses were utilized to analyze the collected data. The study found that the CBOs rendered economic support in forms of pooling resources together for fund provision, purchasing goods in large quantities at lower prices, creating platforms to attract loans, assistance and to invite experts for empowerment programmes for their members. The study further found that the CBO members benefited social support in form of provision of platforms to share their experiences, to boost members’ morale to avert psychological challenges that tended to generate committing suicide and to invite medical experts on sensitization programmes about COVID-19 and its effects. As this study solely focused on ways that several aspects of households’ socioeconomic lives were shielded from the negative impacts of the pandemic through community participation via various CBOs, this study solicited future studies that shall focus mainly on the challenges that the CBOs encounter in realizing this goal and the means of coping with the highlighted challenges.
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    Entrepreneurship: A Post COVID-19 Intervention Strategy for Reintegration into the Labour Market in Nigeria
    (Benin Journal of Social Work and Community Development, 2021-01-05) Okunola, John Lola
    A recent surveys by the Nigeria Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) on labour instability in the country showed that 42% of Nigerians in labour market have lost their jobs as an aftermath of the lockdown declared by the Federal government to prevent further spreading of the pandemic called COVID-19 otherwise known as corona-virus among her populace. The rate at which industries, factories and enterprises are been grounded and the subsequent growth of the endemic poverty in Nigeria calls for serious concern by all stakeholders. On this backdrop; this paper examines entrepreneurship as a necessary tool and intervention strategy for reintegration of labour into the employment market in Nigeria in post COVID-19 period. The paper reviews the conceptualization of entrepreneurship, influence and the alliance between entrepreneurship and economic growth; sources of fund available to entrepreneurs in Nigeria and the issues of COVID-19 pandemic. The method is basically an examination of and reports on job loss by Nigerians through information collated from the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS), United Nations World Food Programme, International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Nigeria dailies. Subsequently, skills, acquisition and ingenuity are various means of eke out of the dangerous post COVID-19 effects.
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    Entrepreneurship: A Post COVID-19 Intervention Strategy for Reintegration into the Labour Market in Nigeria
    (Benin Journal of Social Work and Community Development, 2021-01-05) Okunola, John Lola
    A recent surveys by the Nigeria Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) on labour instability in the country showed that 42% of Nigerians in labour market have lost their jobs as an aftermath of the lockdown declared by the Federal government to prevent further spreading of the pandemic called COVID-19 otherwise known as corona-virus among her populace. The rate at which industries, factories and enterprises are been grounded and the subsequent growth of the endemic poverty in Nigeria calls for serious concern by all stakeholders. On this backdrop; this paper examines entrepreneurship as a necessary tool and intervention strategy for reintegration of labour into the employment market in Nigeria in post COVID-19 period. The paper reviews the conceptualization of entrepreneurship, influence and the alliance between entrepreneurship and economic growth; sources of fund available to entrepreneurs in Nigeria and the issues of COVID-19 pandemic. The method is basically an examination of and reports on job loss by Nigerians through information collated from the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS), United Nations World Food Programme, International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Nigeria dailies. Subsequently, skills, acquisition and ingenuity are various means of eke out of the dangerous post COVID-19 effects.
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    Impact of Training on Employee Performance at Redeemers University Ede, Osun State
    (Internal Journal of Research in Economics and Social Sciences, 2017-05) Okunola, John Lola
    Training has always been a matter of contention in most organization, because of the huge capital outlay associated with it, However, most organization are beginning to have a rethink, because of the outstanding achievement recorded by organization with good training culture. This study is majorly about Effect of training on Job performance of employees in Redeemer University, Ede, Osun State. It is based on primary data obtained from distribution of questionnaires. Furthermore, the variables considered in this study are training and employee performance, also the data generated from the distribution of the questionnaire were analyzed using regression analysis, and the result shows that training has significant relationship with job performance. Base on this finding the study, recommend that management of universities in Nigeria, should always make adequate plan for training, since this will significant increase their motivation.
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    Teachers’ and Students’ Attitudes Toward Disruptive Behaviour and Disciplinary Styles: A Comparative Analysis of England and Nigeria
    (Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017) Okunola, John Lola
    The issue of disruptive behaviour in schools has become a major stress and concern to teachers. However, in order to minimize these behaviours, teachers are utilizing various disciplinary strategies. The aim of this study was to examine students’ and teachers’ attitudes toward disruptive behaviour and disciplinary styles and to compare the views of the participants from Nigeria and England. 285 students and 41 teachers from high school completed the disruptive behaviour and disciplinary styles questionnaires which contain behaviours and intervention methods commonly reported in high schools. These questionnaires measure individual’s attitudes toward behaviour problems and the strategies used to regulate such behaviour. The results depict that there is a relationship between disruptive behaviour and disciplinary styles. Significant difference was found among nationality, gender, student and teacher toward disruptive behaviour and disciplinary styles. Nationality also significantly predicted disruptive behaviour, while aggressive style and relationship based style of discipline predicted juvenile delinquency and school misconduct respectively. In conclusion, the style of discipline adopted in school is associated with students’ judgement of behaviour. The implications of the findings to disciplinary styles that may be most effective at regulating disruptive behaviour are discussed.