Thesis submitted to the department of Adult Education over the years.
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6.	The effect of women empowerment on participant in community based development projects in
	Ondo and Kogi States of Nigeria. (1986-1994).
7.	Comparative Analysis of Leadership styles and workers motivation in service and goods
	industries.
8.	Retention and failure in distance education: The experience of the National Teacher's Institute
	(NTI), Kaduna. 245 PP
9.	A study of worker alienation in selected establishments in Ibadan 257 PP.
	TITLE: THE EFFECT OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT ON PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY BASED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN ONDO AND KOGI STATES OF NIGERIA. (1986-1994)
	AUTHOR: AKINBODE, C.Y. (MRS) PH.D. (1995)
	SUPERVISORS: PROFESSOR C.N. ANYANWU PAGES: 197
	MATRIC. NO.: 40052
	ABSTRACT
	The study set out to establish the effect of women empowerment on their participation in Community Based Development Projects (Agriculture) in Kogi and Ondo States. This was with a view to determining the most important variables empowering women to fully participate in Community-based Development Projects (CDP), especially Agriculture. This will enable the policy makers to know hoe to assist women in participating to contribute to the CDP especially in an era of self reliance in the Country.
	Kogi and Ondo States under the South West Region of Federal Agricultural Coordinating unit (FACU) projects were used as the focus of the study. A total member of 2000 women farmers were randomly selected as sample for the study. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. A set of questionnaire designed using 4-point Likert scale was the main instrument. This was complemented with oral interviews and available records in the Regional Office of FACU with special reference to Kogi and Ondo States.
	The data collected were collated and analysed using various relevant statistical tools which include: the chi-square, correlation co-efficient.
	Based on the study, the following findings were established:
	1.	The degree of women empowerment and their participation in community based
		Development projects varies from one place to another.
	2.	That participation of the women in community-based development in both Kogi and Ondo
		States are positively project correlated with women empowerment. Participate in project
		identification, design, implementation, cost and benefit sharing and evaluation.
	3.	Sensitizing policy makers, NGOs funding agencies, communities and programme executors
		on gender issues.
	4.	Understanding the need for “bottom-up” approach in development to ensure programme
		sustainability through the commitment of the beneficiaries.
	5.	Focus should be on women-centred Development programme with executors perceiving
		programme as a means of improving the women’s living standard and not as liberation or
		freedom movement.
	TITLE: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LEADERSHIP STYLES AND WORKERS MOTIVATION IN
	SERVICES AND GOODS INDUSTRIES.
	AUTHOR: AKINSETE, T. (MRS.) (PH.D. 1992)
	SUPERVISORS: DR. M. O. AKINTAYO. Pp. 147
	MATRIC. NO.: 40191
	ABSTRACT
	This thesis sets out to determine the motivational significance of leaders styles on subordinates. Attitudes of super-ordinates in managing subordinates affect the latters1 competence and self-determination since leadership in some sort of social transaction whether in a benevolent autocracy or a recognised bureaucracy.
	Teaching is considered a terminal positing with little chance for hierarchical promotion. Consequently what motivates the business administrator may not motivate the school administrator. It is not enough then, in the relevant industries, to ascertain what leadership styles motivate but it is relevant to determine if consistent relations exists among leadership styles, workers satisfaction and productivity.
	Hypothesis tested was to determine the degree of motivational influence of leadership styles on subordinates in both services and good industries. Leadership styles and workers productivity are assumed to be mutually exclusive while the correlation between organizational goals and leadership styles in the relevant industries are deemed positive.
	The Descriptive Survey Research which falls within the Empirical research design was used. The Least Preferred Co-worker (LPC) Questionnaires and the Leadership Practice Inventory (LPI) were used. The mean scores of respondents indicating high or low magnitude of agreement or disagreement to all the statements on the LPC were computed with the use of computer. Managers and Supervisors at the Nigerian Breweries Limited (NBL) and Lecturers, Faculty Officers and Chief Executive Officers at the Ibadan and Satelite Campuses of the Polytechnic of Ibadan were used as subjects.
	Thereafter the t-test statistical analysis was used to compare the degree of motivational influence of leadership styles in the service vis-à-vis the goods industries.
	Our findings demonstrated the motivational significance of leadership styles. The Manager who led by example and showed love obtained greater and prompt results. The policy implications of these findings on industrial education - were established. Suggestions for improved labour management relations and how organisational goals can be better accomplished based on leadership and followership thesis were given in this study.
	TITLE: RETENTION AND FAILURE IN DISTANCE EDUCATION : THE EXERIENCE OF THE NATIONAL TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE (NTI), KADUNA. 245 PP.
	AUTHOR: RASID ADEWUNMI ADERINOYE (PH.D. 1992)
	SUPERVISOR: DR. J. O. OJESINA.
	MATRIC. NO.: 24672
	ABSTRACT
	This study sets out to determine the factors leading to wastages among distance learners of the Teachers’ Grade II Programme of the National Teachers’ Institute Kaduna. This is with a view to finding possible solutions to reducing the failure rate and increase the rate of retention.
	The data collected through the instruments used were analysed with the chi-square and analyses of variance (ANOVA) to determine the influence of the various factors on the failure and retention rate of the Teachers’ Grade II distance learners.
	The findings from the study established that:
	i.	the educational background of Teachers’ Grade II distance learners were found inadequate
		and it greatly affected their retention and failure rate.
	ii.	the course materials significantly affected the learners’ rate of retention and failure.
	iii.	the facilitator/tutor factor significantly affected the rate of their retention and failure
	iv.	the environmental variables were not conducive to learners’ need and thus significantly
		affected the subjects’ rate of retention and failure.
	v.	the financial inadequacies of the distance learners grossly affected their rate of
		retention/failure
	vi.	the distance learners’ are burdened with too much of social responsibilities and this
		invariably affected their rate of retention and failure
	vii	the motivation available to learners was not adequate and it thus affected the rate of
		retention and failure
	viii	that factors like boredome, professional advancement, learners’ welfare, external
		expectation of learners’ and their cognitive ability variedly affected the Teachers’ Grade II
		distance learners.
	Based on the findings, the following suggestions are made on how distance learning system can sustain learners’ interest and improved performance that;
	i	distance learners should understand the basic concepts and attributes of Distance Education
	ii	Entry qualification of learners for a particular course of study be uniform
	iii	the cost of course materials be highly subsidized by the Government or the employers of
		the learners
	iv	distance learners be motivated and encouraged during the course of their progarmmes
		through appropriate reward system in the work place
	v	qualified and trained course writers on distance learning system be employed to write
		course materials for the learners
	vi	study centres be adequately equipped with support materials to facilitate better learning
		environment for the learners
	vii	course materials be produced and distributed early enough for the learners use
	viii	tutorial masters, supervisors and others involved in any distance learning programme be
		promptly paid their honorarium to motivate them
	ix	the various Government policies should take into consideration the implication on the
		working populace.
	TITLE: A STUDY OF WORKER ALIENATION IN SELECTED ESTABLISHMENTS IN IBADAN 257 PP.
	AUTHOR: ADEWUMI, FUNMINIYI OLA (PH.D. 1987)
	SUPERVISORS: DR. ONA SOLEYE & PROF. J. A. AKINPELU
	MATRIC. NO.: 33173
	ABSTRACT
	The study set out to examine the concept of alienation as it affects workers in selected work establishments in Ibadan, Nigeria.
	In Chapter One, the changing nature of work over time was examined and in the process, the origin of alienation was found in the antagonistic social relations of societies divided into different social formations. It was within that context that the problem of the study was situated. A brief description of the work establishments from which the samples were taken was also made.
	Chapter Two examined the various theoretical models that have been developed to study the industrial behaviour of workers. Four theoretical models were considered, out of which the phenomenological variant of the ‘Action Approach was taken. The approach was taken because of its appeal which lies in the fact that it views the individual in his entirely both within and outside the work situation in trying to understand his industrial behaviour.
	Chapter Three is a review of the major positions on alienation. Three positions were identified. These are those of the Marxists, the Anti-Marxists and the Revisionists of Marx. While the three groups appear to concede to the existence of the phenomenon of alienation, there is a disagreement as to its source. The Marxists ascribe alienation to the nature of a class society while the Anti-Marxist would see the nature of modern industry as being the source of alienation. The revisionists would also argue that even in socialist countries there are traces of alienation among workers.
	Chapter Four highlights the research methodology used for the study. In all, 260 respondents from six different work establishments were covered. In eliciting information from the respondents, open ended questions were asked and a number of workers were also interviewed. In the main, qualitative analysis was used in treating the responses returned by the subjects of the study. This was completed by a few ANOVA and MCA.
	The findings of the study and discussion of same, are presented in Chapter Five. The findings confirmed the reality of alienation in the establishemnbts covered by the study, although the extent varied between them, the tendency being highest among the respondents from Isoglass Nigeria, Limited. The lowest tendency was among respondents from the University of Ibadan. The respondents from Vitalink Pharmaceutical Industries, showed how factors or the reality of the work situation can affect the outlook and previous orientations of workers. It was also found that a work situation that does not offer the worker an opportunity for self-fulfilment can lead to frustration.
	In Chapter Six, which is the concluding chapter, a summary of the study is given while conclusions are drawn from the findings. Recommendations and suggestions for further studies were made in the light of the findings. Some of the conclusions reached are:
	(i)	that alienation is real in Nigeria industries.
	(ii)	that an instrumental attitude towards work results from the worker’s inability to find meaning
		or fulfilment in work.
	(iii)	that if the worker becomes frustrated in the course of work, he man resort to
		instrumentalism.
	(iv)	that a work organization that does not take the interests and feelings of the worker into
		consideration, make the activity of work unrewarding and unsatisfactory.
	(v)	that the tendency towards alienation is higher among junior workers.
	(vi)	that the type of work done, will determine the extent of alienator,
	(vii)	that ownership and control of industry may compound the problem of alienation for the
		worker and.
	(viii)	that the disposition of management has its role in determining the level of alienation
		experienced by the worker.
	The recommendations put forward are:
	that efforts should be taken to make work worthwhile and rewarding and this may involve re-designing work.
	that academicians and researchers should gear their efforts in the direction of work re-design.
	that the Nigeria Labour congress should intensify efforts that will enhance the position of workers both within the work situation and the larger Nigeria society.
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