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    Exploring the challenges encountered in managing diversity and inclusion in the telecommunications industry by selected multinationals in Ghana.
    (2019) Appiah, Erasmus Kofi.; Adeyeye, Olufemi Patrick.
    This study investigated the challenges encountered as well as examined the elements influencing the management of diversity and inclusion by multinationals in the telecommunications industry in Ghana. Diversity and inclusion are emerging aspects of management, which hinge on disciplines such as sociology and psychology and have been established by scholars to be a potent management tool in the globalised world. Africa and for that matter, Ghana, a West African state, has not been featured adequately in the emerging literature of diversity and inclusion. A sensitive aspect of the Ghanaian economy is the telecommunications sector. However, little is known about the challenges encountered by multinationals in the telecommunications industry regarding the management of diversity and inclusion in Ghana. Secondly, the elements influencing diversity and inclusion management is relatively unknown. Thus, the study was necessitated by the country's diversity, a vibrant economy in the last decades with telecommunications as one of its main drivers and enhanced democratic credentials. Further, the situation attracts individuals and organisations from other nations deepening the already diverse nature of the country. A qualitative (case study approach) approach was employed to answer the research questions and realise the objectives. In line with the tenets of the chosen methodology, which requires data absoluteness, the interviewees and focus group members were purposively selected through expert and maximum variation sampling respectively. There were three in-depth interviews and two focus group discussions conducted in the selected organisations, being the two market leaders in the telecommunication industry (MTN-Ghana and Vodafone–Ghana) in Ghana. Coding and thematic analysis were employed to identify the challenges and elements influencing the management of diversity and inclusion in the selected organisations. Challenges in managing diversity and inclusion regarding demographics, socio-cognitive and organisational diversities were identified. In addition, challenges associated with the economic condition, historical context, government, corporate and organisational policies as well as elements (ethnicity, corporate and government policies) influencing the management of diversity and inclusion in the organisations under study were identified, contributing to theory in this regard. In practice, the findings point to the fact that corporate policies or strategies are not adequately aligned to the societal context. The study further shows that an individual's social construct influences his or her sense of belonging. A proposed framework was created out of the findings of the study, aiming at mitigating the identified challenges, leading to a deeper understanding of the phenomenon. Arising from the findings of the study, it was recommended that further studies are needed to make the socio-cultural dynamics more explicit and align it to corporate strategies. In addition, the study needs to be broadened by employing mixed-method and include the entire number of organisations in the industry to obtain a conclusive result. More importantly, further studies are needed to highlight the impact of diversity and inclusion management on the bottom-line of organisations. The appreciation of the impact of diversity and inclusion on organisations will increase its significance as a management tool.
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    Influence of biopsychosocial factors on entrepreneurial education and students' entrepreneurial inclination in selected Nigerian universities.
    (2021) Odewale, Gbemisola Titilayo.; Migiro, Stephen Oseko.; Adeyeye, Olufemi Patrick.
    Entrepreneurial education has attracted a great deal of attention worldwide because of the idea that it is one of the panaceas for today's societal unemployment problems among university graduates. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial education and the entrepreneurial inclination of students at Nigerian universities. Even more importantly, the study examined the role of biopsychosocial factors as a moderator of the relationship between entrepreneurial attitude, entrepreneurial knowledge and venture creation skills and entrepreneurial inclination. Using cross-sectional data, 385 usable questionnaires were received from final-year undergraduate students from five universities in the South West geo-political Zone. Final-year students were selected based on the assumption that they must have completed their entrepreneurship modules in order to make decisions about their entrepreneurial activities. Of the sample, 68.31% were management students and 31.69% were non-management students. Preliminary statistical analysis was conducted using the IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (version 23), and covariance-based structural equation modeling was used to examine the study hypotheses using Analysis of Moments Structure (AMOS) (version 24). The study established that strong positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial education (entrepreneurial attitude and venture creation skills) and entrepreneurial inclination among Nigerian university students and the sub-samples of management and non-management students. The most gratifying results are those that indicate that biopsychosocial factors negatively moderate the relationship between entrepreneurial attitude and entrepreneurial inclination among Nigerian university students and non-management students. With regard to differences between groups, this study reveals that management students have higher levels of entrepreneurial attitude, entrepreneurial knowledge and venture creation skills than their non-management counterparts. The study contributes to the literature by highlighting the role of biopsychosocial factors in influencing entrepreneurial thinking amongst Nigerian university students. This suggests that university students could become potential entrepreneurs when they consider biopsychosocial factors to enable them develop the right attitude towards entrepreneurial inclination. The managerial implication of this study indicates that university administrators and other stakeholders should consider biopsychosocial factors to be important in response to increasing the inclination of university students to entrepreneurship. This will help increase prospective entrepreneurs and reduce graduate unemployment. The study opens a new frontier with regard to biopsychosocial factors as a moderator in the field of entrepreneurship.
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    Influence of psychological factors, political environment and information awareness on entrepreneurial behaviour among youths in Mpumalanga province.
    (2018) Sowole, Oluseyi Emmanuel.; Hoque, Muhammad Ehsanul.; Adeyeye, Olufemi Patrick.
    Determining the Influence of Psychological factors, political environment and information awareness on youth’s entrepreneurial behaviour in Mpumalanga province is important to foster effective entrepreneurial interest. Although there are many investigations into youths seemingly lack of interest in entrepreneurial participation; however the level of influence of these constructs on entrepreneurial behaviour has not been extensively researched. It is on this premise that this study investigated these constructs to determine its influence on entrepreneurial behaviour and also seek to provide suggestions that can assist government effect paradigm shift in Mpumalanga youths interest in entrepreneurial activities thereby reducing the social vices that comes with high unemployment rate in the province. Adopting pragmatic philosophy and mono-method approach to collect quantitative data to find answers to the research questions with 355 questionnaires administered among unemployed youths in three districts of Mpumalanga province, South Africa. A simple random sampling technique was adopted to draw samples from each of the three major districts and descriptive, inferential analysis was used to analyse data. Regression analysis finds causal relationship between the independent variables (psychological factors, political environment and information awareness) and dependent variable (entrepreneurial behaviour) to see the level of influence on the constructs. The study found a statistical significant relationship between psychological factors and entrepreneurial behaviour, with home stressors and community stressors showing significant statistical agreement to the construct. So also, do political environment and information awareness have significant influence on Mpumalanga youths entrepreneurial behaviour. While psychological factors and information awareness has significant influence on entrepreneurial behaviour; political environment is the main influencer of Mpumalanga youths’ entrepreneurial behaviour. To sum up, the results of the study enabled constructive suggestions that can assist government effect paradigm shift in Mpumalanga youths interest in entrepreneurial activities thereby reducing the social vices that comes with high unemployment rate in the province. Finally, the study outspreads the limits of knowledge in the field of business administration by offering- a four- stage approach suggestion to influence Mpumalanga youth’s entrepreneurial behaviour which includes (a) communication, training and entertainment, (b) Carrot and stick system, (c) Reward mechanism to foster entrepreneurial behaviour (d) Teach-back and feedback system.