Wilfred Isioma Ukpere

University of Johannesburg | uj · Faculty of Management

An enormous number of firms fail to deliver economically profitable growth in output even thoughthey may have strong managerial teams and adequate capital. In this paper, we provide new empiricalevidence to demonstrate a few fundamental factors that can account for the ability of a firm to achieveeconomically sustainable scaling. In a bid to achiev...

This paper evaluates the impacts of self-efficacy, employee attitude towards organizational change, Leadership 4.0, and perceived organizational support (POS) on employee acceptance of the organizational change (EAOC) within businesses in the 4IR era. The study’s sample was taken from ten (10) businesses in the Lagos and Oyo States of Nigeria. This...

The study presents a burden on theory and practice for discovering a reward criterion that achieves workspace morale in a hyperinflationary context. It aimed to determine the relationship between the individual components of rewards (extrinsic, intrinsic, and social) and workspace morale and the mediating role of employee engagement in a hyperinfla...

An enormous number of firms fail to deliver economically profitable growth in output even though they may have strong managerial teams and adequate capital. In this paper, we provide new empirical evidence to demonstrate a few fundamental factors that can account for the ability of a firm to achieve economically sustainable scaling. In a bid to ach...

This study implemented a cross-sectional questionnaire method, and surveys were randomly distributed. Nevertheless, from the 400 surveys distributed, 388 were retrieved, concluded adequate for use, and analyzed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS version 28). This study indicated a substantial relationship between perceived DL, QWL...

Global warming has been escalating along with its major damaging effects. One such effect is its negative impact on economic growth. This paper is premised on the fact that, in addition to its threats to economic growth, climate change can affect financial institutions unfavorably and become a significant cause of financial risk. Therefore, this st...

This research investigates the impacts of organizational learning and resilience on adaptive performance within the banking industry during the 4IR. This study implemented a cross-sectional survey approach, having its sample (250 employees), purposively obtained from five (5) Lagos State of Nigeria's banks. These five (5) banks are First City Monum...

This paper assesses the relational effects of perceived organizational support (POS), fear of COVID-19 (FOC-19), and work-related stress (WRS) on the safety performance of healthcare staff. The sample for this research was extracted from the University College Hospital (UCH) in the Oyo State of Nigeria. The participants were midwives, doctors, auxi...

Given the uniqueness of the stock market in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the fact that empirical conclusions have always been drawn based on more advanced stock markets, it becomes necessary to investigate the nexus between stock market performance and selected macroeconomic variables in SSA countries. With a purpose of unveiling the relationship b...

This paper assesses the impacts of teleworking, perceived technostress, and job insecurity on the organizational performance (OP) of Nigeria’s business organizations in the post-COVID-19 era. The sample was obtained from 10 business organizations in the Oyo and Lagos States of Nigeria. This investigation espoused a cross-sectional scientific study...

Taking a leap from the perspective of organizational citizenship behaviour, pro-social behaviour examines how volunteering intentions such as helping or assisting colleagues, to how collaboration tendencies such as selfless or willful participation in workplace functions, events and issues can affect or influence administrative sustainability and l...

This study evaluates the impacts of work stress, risk-taking propensity, and resilience on psychological wellbeing in Nigeria's Police Force. Its sample was extracted from four (4) police stations in Ibadan, Oyo State of Nigeria. They are the Iyaganku, Eleyele, Orita Challenge, and Iwo Road testing ground police stations. This study has adopted a c...

Globalisation debate in recent years is characterised with trade literature, growth and formation of multinational companies, the internationalisation motive, market liberalisation and the impact of these on nation states’ labour markets (Giddens, 2004). Zimbabwe as a nation is not exempted from the impact of globalisation on its labour relations....

Existing literature has examined a plethora of factors that can affect the effectiveness, performance or nature of fiscal policy in an economy. In this paper we build on the fundamental tenets of micro-economic models to examine the potential ways cryptocurrencies can affect the effectiveness of a country’s fiscal policy. Our finding is that under...

This paper investigates perceived leadership 4.0, psychological capital (PsyCap), and high-performance human resource practices (HPHRPs) for sustainable organizational performance (OP) and employee psychological wellbeing (EPW) in business organizations.This investigation’s sample was obtained from twenty (20) organizations in Nigeria’s and Ghana’s...

This investigation examines the impacts of perceived workplace fairness, ethical leadership, and workers’ demographics on ethical behaviors within Nigeria’s public service. A sample was taken from ten local government areas of Oyo State, Nigeria. However, this investigation has utilized a survey study approach, where the researcher randomly dispers...

The study set out to affirm that Traditional Public Administration existed in pre-colonial Africa, specifically Nigeria. These pre-colonial administrative systems performed all the functions that are currently being executed by the modern public administrative systems, such as designing the best strategies for efficient delivery and the attainment...

This study evaluates the correlational effects of perceived leadership 4.0, workplace ostracism, innovative work behavior, and organizational performance within work organizations. The sample for this investigation was extracted from ten (10) organizations in Oyo and Lagos States, Nigeria. They are organizations from Nigeria’s service, financial, a...

The paper aims to establish the challenges facing the implementation of the Formal Sector Social Health Insurance Programme (FSSHIP) in South-East Nigeria as well as determine the level of awareness of FSSHIP among the federal workers in South-East Nigeria. The study relied on a survey approach. A sample size of 513 federal workers was determined u...

Globalisation led to the reduction of barriers between countries and intensified international interdependency such that developments unfolding in a faraway country now affect the rest of the world in economic, political and social aspects (Giddens, 1990). The Zimbabwean labour market and its national labour legislation has not been spared from the...

The risk that a borrower may not fulfil his/her borrowing obligation presents credit owner (lender) a default risk management opportunity to maximize the risk-adjusted rate of return and to maintain minimum exposure to default associated cost. This paper investigated respondents’ perception of the cost of credit default and examines requirements fo...

This study investigated the impact of succession management on small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs’) sustainability in Lagos, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research method and its participants were selected from five SMEs across Lagos State, based on their number of years of operating, staff strength, and branch locations. The ent...

This study assesses the effects of employee voice, perceived leadership integrity, and work-related curiosity on counterproductive meeting behaviors within Nigeria’s work organizations. The study’s sample was taken from nine work organizations in Lagos and Oyo States of Nigeria. The nine work organizations were selected from Nigeria’s financial, ma...

Fraud is rampant in a nation like Nigeria, reflecting virtually all national areas. Hence, organizational behavior researchers are attracted to reducing this fraudulent behavior. Therefore, this paper investigates the effect of frugality and materialism on employees' attitudes towards fraudulent behaviors within the work organization in Lagos and O...

In response, employees exercise additional efforts within an organization environment as they perceive that an organization gives opportunities or resources and treats them according to the standard of exchange. Drawing on need theory, social exchange theory, and the two-factor theory, this paper, examines the influence of employee participation in...

This paper examines the relationships among organizational factors (organizational culture, commitment, and support) and employeebehaviors (organizational citizenship behavior and workplace deviant behavior) within Nigeria's public sector. The current researchers drew the study's sample from 6 public service ministries within Oyo and Lagos States o...

The current investigationexamines the influences of work stress, coping strategies, and employee demographics on the perceived quality of life among female bank employees within Nigeria’s banking industry. The study’s sample was drawn from a selection of banks (Zenith Bank Plc, Guarantee Trust Bank Plc, Full-Range Microfinance Bank Limited, United...

This paper investigates employee engagement, authentic leadership and human capital factors' influences on the creative behaviors of bank employees within Nigeria's banking industry. This investigation's sample was taken from a selection of banks (Guarantee Trust Bank Plc, First Bank Plc, and United Bank For Africa Plc) across the Lagos and Ibadan...

Agenda 2030 is the Sustainable Development Goals with 17 indicators. Like its predecessors, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),with only eight goals yet African states could not achieve half of the eight goals then and may not get close to a quarter of the SDGs because of the pathologies of development which are legendary in Africa. This study eva...

The current paper examines the influencing factors in sustaining psychological wellbeing amongst married career women in Ibadan, Nigeria. Hence, this paper proposes increasing and sustaining psychological wellbeing amongst married career women in Ibadan, Nigeria. The paper espoused a quantitative research approach based on a survey research design....

The tourism sector is currently one of the hardest hit by the pandemic, with impacts on both travel supply and demand. The transport system forms a key part of tourism, including the tourist experience at a destination. This research sought to understand how the taxi industry operates within the City of Johannesburg under the government restriction...

This paper examines the influence of work-related stress, social support, fear of COVID-19, and demographics in promoting mental health (MH) amongst healthcare workers (HCWs) in Nigeria. Hence, it adopted a survey research design. The results showed that work-related stress, social support, fear of COVID-19, and demographics strongly and jointly in...

In recent years domestic airlines are improving their services, and the major airlines in Nigeria are ahead of others based on superior strategies; in fact, some airlines are not fully utilized, which affects their profitability, while others are highly utilized. Market dynamics and regulatory forces are the key variables that influence airline att...

Despite the surge of studies on employee achievement motivation, there is little research that looks at the combination of self-efficacy and social adjustment as predictors of achievement motivation in Nigeria. Hence, this paper examines the influence of self-efficacy and social adjustment on achievement motivation in Nigeria’s banking industry. Th...

This paper examined factors constraining the effective performance and sustainability of cooperative credit and thrift schemes in the local government areas (LGAs) in Enugu State. The study used a survey of 269 households drawn from 17 LGAs in Enugu state. The current researcher tested the study’s hypotheses by conducting a descriptive statistic th...

This paper explores the impact of frugality and materialism on workplace deviant behaviors in business organizations. The investigation sample was drawn from selected business organizations (Stanbic IBTC Bank, Globacom Limited, International Alpha Limited, and Nextzon Business Services Firm) across the Ibadan and Lagos cities of Nigeria. This study...

Obviously that less motivated teachers are less productive and less disposed to perform their best, despite their acquired teaching experiences in secondary schools. Drawing on equity theory, valence expectancy theory, and the two-factor theory, this paper examines the influence of minimum wage and prompt salary payment on teacher effectiveness in...

This paper examined the growth and unemployment linkage from a gender-classification perspective using the Nigerian economic environment. The autoregressive distributed lag model in its baseline form, the bound test, and error correction representation were used as the estimation approach. Annualized time series spanning 1981 to 2017 were used for...

This paper intends to examine the work stress, perceived organizational support, demographics, and burnout of registered nurses in Nigeria. Therefore, this paper plans to advocate strategies for reducing burnout within the Nigerian health sector, especially among registered nurses across states in south-western Nigeria. The present paper quantitati...

We investigated the transmission effects of the trade spat between the United States and China on the relative trade openness of the West African sub-region. We found that economic policy uncertainty in China positively and significantly influence relative openness and the trade war is a positively significant driver of relative openness of the Wes...

This paper aims to look into leadership styles and employees’ demographic factors as predictors of work stress among bankers in south-west Nigerian. The paper adopted a quantitative research approach. Besides, the current paper adopted a purposive, stratified, and simple random sampling. The empirical results indicated that out of the two leadershi...

This paper aims to empirically examine the causal relationship between sustainable entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention amongst undergraduates. The paper investigates how the outcome of an effective entrepreneurial education system- attitude, skills and knowledge affects the intention of university undergraduates to building a c...

Abstract The current study examined the influence of materialism, job satisfaction, and perceived managerial trustworthiness on attitude towards fraudulent behaviors among finance officers of selected universities across the south-west, Nigeria. Therefore, it is hoped that this paper will help to reduce employees’ favorable disposition towards frau...

Consumer shopping behavior is becoming increasingly polarized, which has an impact on price decisions, and the performance and sustainability of supermarkets. This study sets out to empirically determine the impact that pricing practice management has on the performance and sustainability of supermarkets in the urban area of Enugu State, Nigeria. T...

The present paper intends to explore individual and organisational factors (substance abuse, perceived workplace fairness, work stress, and co-worker support) that predict absenteeism among civil servants in Oyo State, Nigeria. Hence, this paper plans to suggest ways of significantly reducing absenteeism within the Nigerian civil service, especiall...

The purpose of the present paper is to examine the influence of perceived remuneration and performance self-appraisal on work motivation among bank employees in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria. Therefore, this paper plans to suggest ways of increasing employees’ work motivation within the Nigerian banking industry, especially, banks in Oyo state. The cu...

Abstract Research purpose: The reason for this paper is to investigate the effect of job satisfaction on employee productivity in selected manufacturing companies in Oyo state, Nigeria. Research approach/design and method: The present paper adopted a quantitative research approach, as well as a survey research design. Main findings: The empirica...

The present investigation intends to explore the influence of employee’s lifestyle and organisational trust on job satisfaction among non-teaching staff union (NASU) members of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Therefore, this paper plans to suggest ways of increasing employee job satisfaction within the Nigerian educational sector, especially, am...

We analyzed money growth and inflation between 1967 and 2015 for 6 and 8 member countries of West African Monetary Zone and the West African Economic Monetary Union respectively, using Panel data techniques. In our main specification, the regression result shows that a positively significant relationship exists between money growth and the rate of...

Motivated by the desire to expose the possible nonlinearity and non-proportionality in linking financial deepening and economic growth, we investigated the finance-growth nexus from a linear and nonlinear perspective using dataset from Nigeria for 1981: Q1 to 2017: Q4. Using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Nonlinear Autoregressive Dis...

This paper focuses on examining the relationship between work stress and workplace deviant behaviours in the Nigerian banking industry. Hence, the paper plans to propose ways of reducing work stress in the workplace, which will consequently reduce workplace deviant behaviours in the workplace, particularly within the Nigerian banking industry. Howe...

Abstract Purpose: The aim of this paper is to advance employability of tourism graduates, using a three-way partnership. The concept of employability differs depending on the context, as well as the views of the people making employment decisions and those seeking employment. Graduates are not always employable, because they lack specific knowled...

The tourism industry requires that increasing attention be paid not only to the quality of products and services but also to the quality of the human resources that constitute one of its major assets, since tourism is essentially a people-centered service industry. As such, a high-quality skilled workforce will ensure greater competitiveness and in...

To some scholars, workplace deviant behaviours are seen as employees’ intentional actions, which differ from vital organisational values, and are menacing to an organisation’s wellbeing, that of her members, or both the organisation and her members. Additionally, this viewpoint regarding workplace deviant behaviours has similarly been adopted in th...

This paper aims to look into the influence of leadership styles on workplace deviant behaviours in the Nigerian banking industry. The paper adopted a quantitative research approach, which based survey. Also, one non-probability sampling method and two probability sampling methods were used in the study, namely purposive, stratified and simple rando...

This paper aims to explore E-commerce as a strategy for sustainable value creation among selected traditional open market retailers in Enugu state. Every town in Nigeria boasts of an appreciable number of traditional retail markets, which play an essential role in African life, acting as both an economic necessity, and a cultural phenomenon that ha...

Compared to other components of the Cyberspace, Cybersecurity is emerging the most prominent domain of concern. The reason may not be unconnected with the geometric growth in in the evolution of new computer-based technologies by the day and the deployment of such technologies for both positive and negative purposes. There are four major areas wher...

In this paper, we focused on the growth of the economy looking at the impact of Bank lending. The study disaggregated growth into agricultural sector, manufacturing sector and growth in commerce. Volume of Bank credit represents the major regressor with Growth of Agriculture (GAPI), manufacturing (GDPI), commerce (GDPT) as well as overall economic...

Abstract: This work sought to determine the impact of business process re-engineering on the competitiveness of deposit money banks in Nigeria. The specific objectives assessed the nature of the relationship between corporate restructuring and competitive advantage, whilst examining the extent and nature of the relationship between innovative reth...

The decision of Chinese government to devalue the Yuan has attracted serious condemnation by majorly developed economies, despite the government position that the devaluation was aimed at aligning the Yuan with the market rate. The general argument is anchored on the notion that the devaluation was a strategy to increase China's share of global tra...

People perceive globalisation differently. Some consider it to be the internationalisation of local economies in terms of trade, foreign direct investments, agriculture, technology transfer and dominant culture, amongst others. However, globalisation, with its liberalisation and deregulation policies, seem to have created additional turmoil in the...

This study examines the determinants of excess liquidity in the Nigerian banking system using generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) for the period January 2008 to December 2015. The identified determinants of banking system excess liquidity are capital importation, Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) distribut...

Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the facticity of the dominant construction of black professionals as job hoppers that derail workforce reforms in corporate South Africa particularly in leadership roles. Design/methodology/approach – Historical literature review was conducted to trace the genesis of the alleged...

Universities have been experiencing maladministration, declining standards and academic fraud, hence their search for proactive partners to help reverse this situation, and to achieve more favourable ranking in the world of learning. External auditors, though have a well-defined legal duty to report on the accuracy and reliability of records, howev...

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are under increasing pressure to equip graduates with the necessary knowledge, skills, and attributes that would make them employable and highly versatile in various tourism sectors. This means that the various qualifications in tourism that are awarded by HEIs should reflect the tourism industry’s needs and exp...

This study explored the debt overhang hypothesis by an empirically examining the nexus between high indebtedness and economic development with particular focus on HIPCs while relating the outcome to the Debt-GDP ratios of the seven highly developed and indebted countries. This work looked at the reality of debt overhang and crowding out theories wi...