Senyo Adjibolosoo

The significance of the human factor in African economic development

Preface Introduction: The Significance of the Human Factor in African Economic Development by Senyo B-S. K. Adjibolosoo Rethinking the Sources of Economic Underdevelopment The Saturation Hypothesis and Africas Development Problems: On the Nature of Development Theory and Its Implications for the Human Factor in Africas Development by Benjamin Ofori-Amoah The Human Factor and Maintenance of Democracy in Ghana by Kweku G. Folson The Media Dimension of the African Development Malaise by Wisdom J. Tettey Culture as the Epitome of the Human Factor in Development: The Case of Ghanas Collectivistic Ethic by Francis Adu-Febiri Human Factor Engineering, Leadership Development, and Utilization The Significance of Leadership Development for African Government Operations by Don Page Indigenous Leadership Styles: Can Grapes Be Picked from an Orange Tree? by Claude G. Mararike Leadership and Productivity Growth: A Path for Africa by Michel M. Mestre Towards Moral and Social Development in Contemporary Africa: Insights from Dangme Traditional Moral Experience by J. N. Kudadjie Structural Adjustment and Manpower Utilization: The Case of Nigerian Scientists and Engineers by Chikwendu C. Ukaegbu and Christian C. Agunwamba The Relevance of Human Resource Development: The Case of Ghanas Experience in the Agricultural Sector by Edward M. Abakah The Human Factor in Sociocultural and Political Contexts The Polity and the University: An African Perspective by Ali A. Mazrui Cultural Perspectives of Political Instability in Africa by Mike Oquaye Human Context as a Critical Factor in Effective Technology Transfer for Development by Harold Harder Managerial Practice in Privately Owned Manufacturing Industries in Nigeria and Its Implications by Chikwendu C. Ukaegbu The Human Factor in a Free-Market Open-Economy Development Model: Educational and Cultural Attitudes in Chile by David E. Hojman Index

Globalization and the human factor : critical insights

Introduction: the globalization-development debate: the need for a paradigm shift, E.O.K. Prempeh, Joseph Mensah and Senyo Adjibolosoo. Conceptualizing Globalization and the Human Factor: Globalization and the human factor: some preliminary observations, E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh Tapping into and benefiting from the forces and agents of globalization: creating an integrated vehicle for global participation and gainsharing, Senyo Adjibolosoo. Globalization, the Human Factor and Cultural Identities: Integrating culture in globalization and development theory: a human factor approach, Joseph Mensah African culture and the social implications and consequences of globalization, Victor Ngonidzashe Muzvidziwa Globalization and diversity in the tourism industry: a human factor, Francis Adbu-Febiri. Globalization, the Human Factor and Science and Technology: National agricultural research systems, the biotechnology revolution and agricultural development, Korbla P. Puplampu Globalization, disporization and cyber-communities: exploring African transnationalism, Wisdom J. Tettey Human factor decay, American exceptionalism, and the exclusion of women and minorities from science and science-driven globalization, Randy Moore. Globalization, the Human Factor, Democracy and Governance: Globalization, governance and the human factor, E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh Democracy as political counterpart to globalization: wither the Human factor?, E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh Index.

Perspectives on economic development in Africa

Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments General Introduction What Ails African Economies: Lessons from Over-Stretched Underdevelopment The Human Factor and The Failure of Economic Development and Policies in Africa Theoretical Perspectives on African Economic Development Employment and Productivity in African Agriculture: Theory and Empirical Analysis The Role of Urban Informal Activity in the Rural-to-Urban Transition in Africa Technological Change Strategy for Economic Development in Africa National Income and Consumption Planning in African Countries: Theory and Empirical Evidence Corruption and Economic Development in Africa: A Comparative Analysis African Subsistence Labor Allocation: A Model with Implications for Rural Development and Urban Unemployment Structural Perspectives on African Underdevelopment Africas Debt Crisis: The African Position towards the Solution Industrializing Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cooperative Rather than a Competitive Effort Bankrupting the Lower Income Classes in Sub-Saharan Africa The Political Economy of Development in Africa: Reflections on Orthodox Thinking and Policy Education and Economic Growth in Ghana Index

On choosing the level of significance for the goldfeld and quandt heteroskedasticity pretesting

When heteroskedasticity is suspected pretests are performed to investigate its presence in the data. If the null hypothesis of homoskedasticity is accepted through pretests based on an arbitrarily selected level of significance, the OLS estimator rather than the two stage Aitken Estimator (BSAE) is used. This methodology defines the traditional heteroskedasticity pretest estimator. Until now nothing is known about a generally accepted optimal level of significance for heteroskedasticity pretesting. This paper through exact numerical analysis suggests what the level of significance should be for improved heteroskedasticity pretesting.

The degree of severity of heteroskedasticity and the traditional goldfeld and quandt pretest estimator

The traditional Goldfeld and Quandt heteroskedasticity pretesting methodology disregards the fact that even though heteroskedasticity may exist, its degree of severity might be such that the OLS estimator would still outperform the 2SAE. It, therefore, produces results inferior to the OLS estimator when the degree of severity of heteroskedasticity is very mild. This paper through Monte Carlo simulations shows that the probabilistic pretesting procedure suggested by Adjibolosoo (1989) is more powerful than the traditional Goldfeld and Quandt heteroskedasticity pretesting methodology at the usual traditionally selected levels of significance

Achieving Optimal Quality and Productivity: Human Sentiments and the Passions

Without mincing any words, the key theme and focus of this chapter is about how people within their own business units, organizations, and the various marketplaces and nations can successfully achieve and sustain optimal quality and productivity growth through the relentless massaging and cultivation of the diverse human sentiments and the passions. The presentation in this chapter aims at providing insightful highlight regarding what it takes outside the primary domain of management rules and human resources (HR) laws to achieve and maintain optimal product quality and the highest employee productivity anytime. The primary role of human sentiments and passions in quality enhancement and productivity growth are thoroughly highlighted and analyzed in this chapter. The conclusions and recommendations made relate to the degree to which the maximization of the human factor quality enhances and improves employee performance optimality.

Concluding Remarks: The Human Factor Quality and the Way Forward Toward Effective and Efficient Human Resources Management

This is the final chapter in the book. As the last chapter, its primary focus is concentrated on certain selected concluding remarks regarding the human factor and its role in effective and efficient human resources management and public administration. In this chapter, it is also pointed out that to ignore the human factor quality in any endeavor is in the business organization is to perennially jeopardize its long term survival. Indeed, any people who are either ignorant of or relegate to the back burner the ongoing education of the various levels of personnel in the business organization is to be doomed long before it happens. To avoid this plight, it is imperative to remain keenly aware of the significance of the positive human factor qualities to the long-term health of the business organization.

Transcending the Limitations of Global Organizational Profitability and Longevity: Preparing People for the Tasks and Challenges of Management

The theme of this chapter concentrates on how any limitations on global organizational profitability and longevity can be transcended. Written from the human factor perspective, it is argued in this chapter that leaders, managers, and employees must work together hand-in-hand to achieve and maintain the diverse internal as well as external limitations that are most frequently imposed on company competitiveness anytime. It is pointed out that by channeling some of a company’s scarce resources into programs that foster the enhancement of the human factor qualities of the employees, those involved in the activities of the organization will surely and successfully transcend the various limitations that mitigate against employee efficiency. In conclusion, it is pointed out in this chapter that when the members of any company achieve this goal, it is imperative that they will also increase and maintain the long-term profitability of the company—ensuring its long-term organizational flourishing and longevity.

The Proliferation of the Legal Solution in HR Administration: The Scorecards

The proliferation of the legal solution in the practices of human resources (HR) administration is the main focus of the presentation and discussion in this chapter. It is argued in this chapter that the human desire and willingness to establish HR administrative practices and policies as a result of the scientific management concepts and knowledge gleaned from the works of the various pioneering scholars and their offspring, the scientific management, human relations, and the behavioral movements, opened the doors to the flourishing of the legal solution to the perennial problems evident at the various marketplaces of the modern era. As a result, most scholars interested in this field were presented with excellent opportunities through which they appreciated, accepted, and relentlessly concentrated their own effort and energy on scholarly activities that focused primarily on institution building. These efforts tremendously contributed to the development, implementation, enforcement, and the channeling of more resources into efforts of the key scholars of this effort. The most primary efforts were aimed at practices that promoted, defended, and sustained the legal aspects of the HR management administration and practices. It is argued that the indiscriminate pursuits of the Weberian view regarding the primacy of the Legal Authority led to the limitless proliferation of the legal solution in the domain of HR administration. The scorecards of this practice are presented, evaluated, and suggestions made for better improvements.

The Evolution and Implications of Human Resources Regulations and Policies

The primary focus of this chapter is on a summarized review of the evolution and implications of human resources regulations and policies. A thorough reading of the contents of this chapter will guide the reader towards gaining a much deeper understanding of the primary reasons regarding why management rules, human resources (HR) laws, were primarily fashioned and aggressively implemented, and the main reasons why these laws lack the potency as well as the authority to provide effective and long-term solutions to the various problems at the workplace. In this chapter, the reader is led to become much more familiar with the main thrust and the key teething problems of HR laws. The implications and evolution of HR laws are presented and analyzed. The primary genesis, performance effectiveness, and the primary as well as secondary implications of management rules and HR regulations and policies in the various marketplaces are also discussed in this chapter. This discussion is presented from a critical human factor perspective.