Review of employee and management development theories, methods and practices.
Evaluation and critique of these in the light of experiences in Nigeria and other
African countries. Effects of culture, innovation on training and development.
- FACULTY: Abdul Lawal
This course covers various issues on the management of individuals, groups and
organizations. It is aimed at increasing the personal effectiveness and skill of
participants in understanding, analyzing and managing people in organizations.
Introduction to Human Problems in Organizations. The Role of the Manager.
Motivation. Group Dynamics. Delegation. Power and Authority. Management
Style. Organizational Structure: Strategy and Structure. Organizational Forms:
Functional, Divisional, Matrix, Networks. Career Management: Early & Mid-Career.
The Dynamics of Taking Charge. Leadership: Theories of Leadership. Leadership
Values. Change Management: Drivers of Change. Communicating Change.
Implementing Change.
- FACULTY: Chantal Epie
The Strategy Process. Industry Analysis and Attractiveness of Industries. Building
Core Competencies and Competitive Advantage. Generic Strategies. Corporate
Strategy. Strategy Implementation. Strategies for Growth. Strategy in the Emerging
Domestic Markets. Creating New Markets. Strategies in Fast Changing
Environments and Markets. Business Strategy Game. Project – Strategic Analysis of a
Chosen Company.
- FACULTY: Olamitunji Dakare
Marketing Planning. Marketing Implementation. Marketing Department
Organization. Marketing Control. Product/Brand Management. Personal Selling.
Sales Management. Trade Marketing.
- FACULTY: T Otubanjo
Discussion and articulation of recent developments in the accounting literature.
- FACULTY: Akintola Owolabi
Market efficiency tests, term structure theory tests, test of asset pricing models, tests
of divided policy and financial structure issues. Topic focus on statistical and
methodological problems encountered in empirical research in related areas of
finance, economics etc.
- FACULTY: Onafowokan Oluyombo
The course will first lay foundation for different research philosophies and epistemological perspectives. This course shall explore basic research procedures for quantitative and qualitative studies in business, choosing research strategies, research designs and critical review of the literature, determining a sample and sampling procedure, qualitative and quantitative data analysis – statistics, econometrics and mathematical approaches, hypothesis formulation and testing.
Research students will be exposed to different research instruments, how to design a
questionnaire, how to carryout instrument reliability and validity and appropriateness
of different data sources for different studies. Emphasis is on statistical inference and
multiple linear regression models, polynomial regression, test of independence and
goodness of fit. Also how to use dummy variables an
- FACULTY: Perekunah Eregha
- FACULTY: Oluwasola Oni
- FACULTY: Olusegun Vincent
The purpose of the course is to develop basic competence and judgment in using quantitative techniques to solve and analyse decision problems in business fields. This course takes an in-depth look at the practices in quantitative methods for business research. The course is designed to enable students understand use of descriptive statistical tools for establishing normality, variable independence and linearity. Different methods of research instrument reliability and validity will be carried out.
The course promises to expose students to data coding and exploratory analysis in
checking for errors. The course will dig deep into various classifications of research
variables and their implications for choice of data analysis. Different forms of
research questions (descriptive, associational and difference) will be examined with
their relevant data analysis techniques. The students will be exposed to all forms of
parametric statistics and non-parametric statistics used in data analysis.
- FACULTY: Olalekan Aworinde
- FACULTY: Perekunah Eregha
- FACULTY: Olusegun Vincent
The main thrust of this course is to expose students to the dynamics of the business
ethics literature focusing on the different business ethics theories and fundamentals
and their applications to both domestic and global ethical issues in business
management. Some of the core areas of coverage amongst others are theories of
values, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, responsibilities of the
firm to each of its main stakeholders, Corporation's ethical status and values as well as
financial transaction ethics.
- FACULTY: Prof. Juan Elegido