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Leadership And Problems Of National Development: An Assessment Of Unemployment Problem And Movement Of Nigerian Youths To Developed Countries Of The World
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1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
Movement
of Nigerian youths to develop countries of the world. The bulk of the
affected areas are Edo and Delta States, to some extent East and Western
States. 70% are from Edo State, but the study concentrate on Lagos. The
North has insignificant number. The movement cut across religion,
tribe, sex and different educational background, mostly undergraduates,
dropped outs and sometimes graduates. Basically, the study is limited to
youth seeking greener pasture in European countries, Spain, Italy,
France to mentioned a few.
1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS
Various terms will be defined and explained to enable us understand the phenomenon under investigation.
LEADERSHIP
– The closet to a census in the definition of the concept is that, it
is a social influence process. It is defined as the process of
influencing group activities towards the accomplishment of goals in a
given situation. (Harsey and Blanchard 1977) while (Griffin 1984)
defined leadership as the ability to influence others.
EMPLOYMENT – A
concept of which labour is engaged in production i.e. a situation where
all eligible citizens are working either for themselves or for an
organisation on full or part time to earn a living or wages and salary.
UNEMPLOYMENT
– Some authorities have stressed not working and seeking to work and
others like Sen (1988) recognized aspect of underutilization of labour.
It is a situation where some human factor of production is idle, i.e.
where all those eligible to work are not able to find job. There are
different types of unemployment, structural, seasonal, voluntary,
fictional, casual, disguised and cyclical unemployment. Cyclical
unemployment is the one that is most concern for the purpose of this
study. That is unemployment due to depression or recession in the
economy due to bad leadership.
ECONOMIC GROWTH – refers to the entire
productive and distribute system of the state. In an economy, you are
either on production or distributive or both. The unemployed is not
contributing to the production or distribution of goods and services. He
is dependent consumer.
DEPORTEE – A person who is sent back to his country of origin from another country for some reason.
MOVEMENT – For the purpose of this study, means traveling or migration from Nigeria to Europe.
YOUTH – Able bodied (male & female) traveling to abroad for greener pasture
1.8 METHODOLOGY
Refers
to the process and approach in data gathering and analysis. The use of
questionnaires in gathering data will be used. In formation from
journal, survey research and relevant literature review will be used.
Gathering data from the field which is a form of descriptive research.
1.9 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
Problem
may be encountered in answers by the respondents. Problem of getting
unemployed who are willing and also those that were sent back. Data on
theses are not available among those who are traveling out of the
country from January to June, 2008
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Leadership is the key to social upliftment, social stagnation and even social decay, but there is no such agreement as to which kind of leadership is most capable of meeting and enhancing national development. The ability of a leader to coordinate member’s behaviour in the pursuit of goals is referred to as leadership. George and et al (1990) defined leadership as a relationship in which one person accepts the responsibility for the fate of self and others in relation to achieving a task. ... Continue reading---
