http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/476 A collection of Graduate theses designated by schools 2026-07-17T10:59:48Z http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/606 The Mediating Effect of Motivation on the Relationship Between Talent Management Strategies and Public Universities Performance in Northeastern Nigeria. Sanni, Abdulkarim Praise There is a notable poor quality of teaching, research, and ranking in Nigerian public universities, and this is exacerbated by a shortage of talented professionals, poor motivation, and an incentive scheme that signifies poor performance. The adoption of talent management strategies to address these challenges has not been completely effective in improving institutional performance. This study examines the mediating effect of motivation on the relationship between talent management strategies and public universities performance in Northeastern Nigeria. The study used quantitative research methods for the investigation, and primary data were collected through questionnaire. The questionnaires were distributed to 359 academic employee selected using cluster and stratified random sampling techniques across faculties and schools in the surveyed institutions. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling. The findings revealed a significant positive relationship between talent management strategies (recruitment, career advancement, and training) and institutional performance. The findings also revealed that motivation partially mediates the relationship between recruitment, training, and institutional performance. However, motivation has no mediation on the relationship between career advancement and institutional performance. The implication is that, for public universities to become more efficient, authorities should continue to invest in talent recruitment, career advancement, and training strategies. The authorities should ensure that academic talents are widely selected based on qualifications, experiences, and competences; and their qualifications and experiences are adequately incentivized and remunerated to get them to perform at their best in teaching, research, and service to improve performance. The authorities should implement promotion guidelines meritoriously, improve talent welfare; and operationalize talent seminars, conferences, and workshops’ sponsorship across all cadres to promote quality teaching and research output. 2023-12-11T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/602 Performance evaluation of Manet proactive and reactiverouting protocols using NS3 Nwuku, Yakubu Ernest Mobile Ad hoc network which is known as MANET is a network communication medium that is made up of mobile wireless node. The network operates as an infrastructure-less network that doesn’t require an existing network infrastructure such as routers, switches or mounted access point for network communication. MANET is a network which its setup is independent regardless of its location, but has the problem of establishing an effective network route. As wired network communication is governed by topologies, MANET in its application is governed by network routing protocols which are the basis for effective network communication. In this thesis, the routing protocols which includes DSDV, OLSR as Proactive and AOMDV as Reactive routing protocols respectively. Simulated using NS3 at 20, 40 and 60 number of nodes in a real-time scenario. Results obtained shows their performance based on the following parameter metrics: Average Throughput, Average End-to-End Delay and Average Energy Consumption. Overall, the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol outperformed the other two routing protocols DSDV and AOMDV for the tested metrics for small networks of 20 number of nodes. Ad hoc On-demand Multipath Distance Vector (AOMDV) performs better at medium networks of 40 number of nodes. While Destination Sequence Distance Vector (DSDV) performs better at larger networks of 60 number nodes. OLSR showed better performance based on the cumulative performance on the network scenario of both small and larger networks, which serves useful information in terms of designing a network. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/601 Acceptance of Learning Management Systems: a perspective of Northern Nigerian Students. Yakubu, M Nasiru Access to the internet in developing countries is on the increase due to the declining cost of internet subscription and the availability of cheaper alternatives to internet-ready devices. This has ensured that most industries can leverage on technology advancements in order to improve their processes. In Nigeria however, there is a disparity between the way government-owned and private-owned industries use technology, while privately owned industries are funded (investment) to make profit, government-owned industries have been neglected. Higher education institutions are a good example of this disparity. Private universities have invested heavily in technological resources to provide value-for-money education; on the other hand public universities are faced with challenges resulting from inadequate funding. In higher education institutions, a very important technology is the learning management system (LMS) and prior research has shown that an LMS, when used prudently, has the potential to improve the instruction and learning process both in and out of the classroom. Till date, only a few of Nigerian universities have been able to implement a fully functional learning management system (LMS) and as a result, the present literature is devoid of research examining the factors that facilitate the acceptance of these eLearning systems by Nigerian students. Most of the studies have omitted critical factors such as instructors’ influence and course content and design quality; thus, there is no study that has been carried out in Nigeria that has comprehensively investigated the acceptance and use of LMS’. There is an abundance of studies on the acceptance of LMS’ in developed countries and these studies have identified factors that are responsible for influencing both instructors and students to use a LMS. However, this may not be applicable to developing countries where there is a significant difference in culture. This dissertation aims to fill this gap by the development and testing of a conceptual framework, which is derived from the socio-psychology domain. The framework is applied to investigate Nigerian university students’ acceptance and use of learning management systems and to compare the similarities and differences between public and private Nigerian university students’ acceptance and use of learning management systems. The universities in this study comprise of 2 (two) public and 2 (two) private universities located School of Information Technology and Computing Fall 2020 xi in northern Nigeria and a total of 1116 usable responses were received. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used test the research model and its associated hypotheses while multi-group analysis method was used to test the effect of the moderators and to compare the similarities and differences between the public and private university students use of LMS’. The findings showed that students from both private and public universities attribute their use of the LMS to the perceived ease of using (PEOU) the system, facilitating conditions (FC) and the influence of others (SI) to use the system. There was no support for the relationship between course quality (CQ) and the usefulness of the LMS in both student samples. Similarly, the relationship between learning value (LV) on BI in both student samples was not supported. Only the private university students attributed the usefulness (PU) of the systems as a determinant of their intention to use the system. The multi-group analysis results showed that age gender and experience have some effect on some of the relationships. The T-test analysis for the equality of the means was also carried out to determine if there are differences between public and private university students use of the LMS. The results indicated that indeed there are disparities in the use of LMS’s in both types of institutions. The results presented by this research contribute to existing literature by validating and supporting the conceptual model used in this study, which is based on prominent technology acceptance models, and provides several prominent implications to theory and practice for individuals and educational institutions. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/598 An Empirical Analysis Of Covid-19 Realities Influencing Small Business Behavior Usoh, Usoh E.; Adeyele, Bose; Essahmed, Sophia; Diah, Joseph P.; Suleiman, Aisha; Agwaru, Rabiu Ismail; John, Mary The novel coronavirus otherwise known as Covid-19 has opened the world to new abnormal “realities” that are posing serious business-related challenges to both national and global economies. This study examines the various realities--in the form of variables--associated with the Covid-19 pandemic and determines the influence of these realities on the behavior of micro, small and medium scale businesses. The data was collected using interview and structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was administered to 1883 respondents across five states in Nigeria using convenient sampling. Twenty-four variables were identified and Exploratory Factor Analysis was used to examine these variables reducing the number to sixteen influencing variables. Multiple Regression was used to determine the contributions of these variables to the behavior of micro, small, and medium scale businesses. The study findings indicate that eleven of these variables were statistically significant and eight significantly influence the behavior of these businesses. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z