IOSR-JHSS   Volume-16 ~ Issue-4 ~ Sep-Oct-2013

Abstract: Clouds of turbulence are in the air my friend and strafing through these times has been a bumpy ride for almost everybody. Many organizations have seen their dusk, some have seen the dawn too and it has been barely a few who have been able to shine bright. These turbulent times have been classified under economic slowdown, unemployment as well as workforce unavailability, social uprising, war for resources etc. and all these factors, individually or in conjunction have led to huge ambiguities for businesses. Many types of leaders have tasted these waters and some of them, who have been able to manage these, have soared. One common attribute that has been common among all the dons (read dawns) in these times has been their ability to induce action in others and steer the team to glory. Such inspired leaders and their leadership hold the key to the good times that lie ahead of this turbulence. This paper presents a model on how the leadership of an inspired leader can rally the masses generally and the youth specifically, to steer out of these turbulent times and build a better & a more sustainable tomorrow.

1. The 2020 Workplace – Jeanne C Meister & Karie Willyerd
2. Best Practices for Developing Change Leadership in Turbulent Times - The Conference Board Councils on Leadership Development, Organizational Learning, HR and Talent Management, and Diversity and Inclusion
3. Capitalizing on Complexity, IBM Corporation 2010
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7. McKinsey Quarterly – July 2009 - Leadership lessons for hard times - Dennis Carey, Michael Patsalos-Fox, and Michael Useem
8. ILO Report on Global Employment Trends, 2013
9. http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/02/28/the-perils-of-unfulfilled-indian-youth/
10. State of Indian Economy, 2013 – Deloitte Paper

Abstract: The Arab revolution started on December 18, 2010 in Tunisia and spread to Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria among others. The revolution is an ideological struggle that arises from the crisis of governance resulting from political enclosures in the Arab states. Explanatory notes within the context of the internal conspiracy theory reveals that the revolutionary uprising is a consequence of the conflict between patriarchal democracy and its leadership intransigence and democratic modernism with rising expectation from the civil society for broad participation in the process of governance. The paper also place in context the external conspiracy theory arising from the shift in American foreign policy under the Secret Presidential Study Directives II that has influenced American foreign policy in North Africa and the Middle East in favour of Israel. The clamour for political change is justified by remote consensual factors like human right abuses, corruption, unemployment, poverty, growing rate of inequality and social exclusion orchestrated by religion and this is juxtaposed with the immediate causes for objective analysis. The paper tries to examine the challenges these countries would face in her efforts at building a sustainable and virile democratic nation and how this will generate favourable foreign policy outcome for western nations. Under rational consideration and away from any ideological deception, the paper argued that there is no universal pattern of governance and tends to question the consideration that western democracy is the only pathway to achieving sustainable development. On this note, the paper concludes that countries governance by patriarchal democracy should be encouraged to broaden the scope of governance rather than the use of subversive means to effect regime change at the expense of national, regional and world peace.

Key Words: Ideology, Revolution, Governance, Alienation, Democracy, Patriarchy

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Abstract: In this paper, housing affordability problems on residents in Calabar Metropolis, Cross River State, Nigeria is assessed. Systematic random method was used to administer one hundred and twenty copies of questionnaire to residents in three districts across the Metropolis. The study showed that majority of the tenants in Calabar Metropolis pay N2, 500 – N15, 000 monthly for their rented rooms. Majority of the tenants living in one bedroom and 2 – 3 bed room flats were in the low and middle-income groups. The study reveals that people in Calabar spend substantial amount of their monthly income on housing. The study showed that residential housing problems varied significantly across different socio-economic groups (p ≤0.05). The study also revealed that significant relationships existed between housing affordability and age, sex, income, educational attainment, marital status and occupation. The study suggested that agencies should be set up by the state government to monitor rental values charged by landlord/landladies across Calabar Metroplis as well as more housing schemes should be instituted by the government to reduce the monopoly of private land developers as well as meet the housing demands of its populace.

Keywords: Housing affordability, Socioeconomic groups, Calabar Metropolis, Tenants

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Abstract: This paper examines how the Religious beliefs have a strong influence on the culture of a community. Indeed, for many people around the world, religious beliefs are central to their culture and provide the moral codes by which they live. These Cultural changes have promoted linkages and interactions among castes, tribes, religious groups and cultural regions. We notice significant magnitude of the spread effect of these cultural changes across regions and ethnic boundaries. These developments have, however, also reinforced people's self-consciousness and narrow cultural identities organised on principles of ethnicity, religion, caste, language and region. The intensity of media exposure, political participation and competitive outlooks towards social mobility has added strength to these processes. Politicization of religion is reflected in conscious distortions of meaning and uses of religious symbols, artefacts and rituals. In the context of overall social change, it is essential to examine the importance of Human dignity, respect, integrity with the Parables for a better way of life and for cultural integration.

Keywords: Cultural changes, narrow cultural identities, Politicization of religion, Parables, cultural integration.

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