IOSR-JBM   Volume-16 ~ Issue-10 ~ Oct. 2014

Abstract: The study examined the effect of Mentoring on Organizational Resilience in the Nigerian manufacturing industry. A total of 140 employees were randomly drawn from employees of the 31 manufacturing companies in Port Harcourt. The instruments used for data collection were questionnaire and oral interview. A total of 93 copies of the questionnaire were retrieved and analyzed. Spearman's Rank Correlation Statistical tool was used to test the hypotheses. The findings revealed that Mentoring is significantly related to Organizational Resilience. Based on these findings we concluded that Mentoring has significant influence on Organizational Resilience. The study therefore recommends that organizations should use its mentoring programmes as a knowledge retention measure that will strategically channel efforts towards organizational success. In other words mentoring should be used as a tool to enhance organizational resilience.

Key words: Mentoring, Organizational resilience, Organizational learning, Adaptive capacity, Dynamic capabilities.

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Abstract: This study empirically examines the relationship between sustained knowledge acquisition and organizational effectiveness, with respondent managers drawn from 32 manufacturing firms in Rivers State. The study analyses the role of sustained knowledge acquisition in achieving optimal productivity, profitability and market share within the Nigerian socio-economic context. A triangulation of methodologies was adopted in the study, entailing a dominant nomothetic and a supportive ideographic approach. The aim was to adequately capture, not only the objective but the subjective stance of the respondents in the evaluation of the study variables. Our findings reveal a significant relationship between sustained knowledge acquisition and organizational effectiveness and in view of our results, the recommendations are made.

Keywords: Knowledge acquisition, effectiveness, change, market, survival

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Abstract: This study aims to identify and assess the relevance of the Role of Government and Social Capital in the process of empowerment of Small Industries. To achieve the goal by taking a sample of 155 business units / entrepreneurs of small industries as the primary data in this study were purposively selected competent officials at the Office of the 12 heads of 12 districts / cities corresponding field of each task to examine the pattern of relationships among variables used research tool inferential analysis of the SEM with PLS approach. The results of this study indicate that the role of good government would increase Social Capital and Empowerment of Small Industries. the Small Industries in Southeast Sulawesi Province. This study also produced findings that to increase the presence of small industries for the better when a variable is the role of government and social capital managed optimally. Keywords: the role of government, social capital and empowerment of small industries

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