Located in West Africa and bordering the Atlantic‚ Nigeria is a big country that occupies 356‚667 square miles with a total population of 168 million. Nigeria is abundant in natural resources like coal‚ gold‚ lead‚ iron‚ salt‚ copper‚ and zinc‚ but it is best known as a big producer of oil. Thanks to its size‚ population‚ and resources‚ Nigeria is dubbed as “the giant of Africa” (Falola‚ 4). According to World Bank Data of 2010‚ Nigeria has an annual percentage growth rate as 8.0%‚ one of the world’s
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Conservation officers work for the department of natural resources or (DNR)‚ some work for state bureaus with similar names. Conservation Officers have the same or more authority as police officers. They enforce laws related to commercial and pleaser fishing‚ hunting‚ poaching and outdoor recreation and environmental infractions. They may also be known as game wardens‚ even though some of these people help protect both wildlife and land. “For 125 years Michigan conservation officers have shared
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Policy Sciences 35: 269^284‚ 2002. ß 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. 269 Bounded rationality and public policy: Herbert A. Simon and the decisional foundation of collective choice1 BRYAN D. JONES Department of Political Science‚ University of Washington‚ Seattle‚ U.S.A. Abstract. By 1958‚ a model of human behavior capable of serving as the micro-level foundation for organizational and policy studies was in place‚ due primarily to the e¡orts of Herbert Simon‚ organization
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CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN THE MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA. Presented to Blekinge Institute of Technology‚ Department of Management‚ Ronneby‚ Sweden‚ in fulfilment of the requirement for the Degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA). BY: DR. ENIOLA SAMUEL SUPERVISOR: TOM MICHEL © December 2006 ABSTRACT Customer satisfaction is a fundamental marketing construct in the last three decades. In the past
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TABLE OF CONTENT TOPIC PAGE NO 1.0 Company Background 2 2.0 Function of Human Resource Department (HRD) 4 3.0 Challenges & Issues 15 4.0 Solution & Decision 17 5.0 References 19 1.0 COMPANY BACKGROUND KTS Holding Sdn Bhd (KTSH) is an investments holdings company started in 1962. The KTSH are mainly non-public listed companies. Principal activities include timber logging‚ timber processing (into plywood‚ sawn-timber‚ etc) reforestation‚ plantation (oil palm) & estate development
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TAXATION AND FISCAL REGULATIONS IN NIGERIA INTRODUCTION The Nigerian Tax System has undergone significant changes in recent times. The Tax Laws are being reviewed with the aim of repelling obsolete provisions and simplifying the main ones. Under current Nigerian law‚ taxation is enforced by the 3 tiers of Government‚ i.e. Federal‚ State‚ and Local Government with each having its sphere clearly spelt out in the Taxes and Levies (approved list for Collection) Decree‚ 1998. Of importance at this juncture
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and assumption of the contingent environmental liabilities. The land underneath the gas station has potential environmental problems but Cho did not take any remediation to fix environmental problems before the exchange. A year later‚ Patten pays a third party $100‚000 for environmental clean-up costs to remediate the site. The transaction does not have tax avoidance purpose. Issues The main issue encountered in this case is whether the contingent environmental liabilities assumed by Patten is
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Recruitment & Retention For all companies‚ recruitment and retention of personnel is a challenge and a goal for the Human Resource Department. The Human Resource Department must identify the qualities that are important in potential personnel and comprehend what qualities the applicants are looking for in a possible employer. In addition‚ the Human Resource Department has a responsibility to the company to ensure that once the applicant becomes an employee‚ the investment that is made in that
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IKEA in Nigeria Nasser Mardini Virginia International University Global Sourcing and Logistics - MBA 628 September 15‚ 2012 Dr. Stephen Onu Company history IKEA was founded in 1943by Ingvar Kamprad aged 17 in a small farming village in Sweden. The name IKEA was formed from the founder’s initials I.K. plus the first letters of Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd‚ the farm and village where Kamprad grew up. Originally IKEA sold everything from pens and wallets to picture frame‚ watched and even ladies
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Cost Club Memo To: Pat Sutton From: Leonna Whitfield cc: Norma Sutton Date: Re: Downsizing the Human Resources Department I have received your confidential update in regards to the downsizing of the Human Resources Department. Although it was a difficult decision‚ I have made recommendations on the three employees who should be terminated from the company as a means to cut back on costs. I will begin by listing the three employees I selected‚ along with the reasons for why I selected those
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