Browsing: 2013, Vol. 17, Issue 1, May

2013

Corporate Covernance As A Tool For Curbing Bank Distress In Nigeria Deposit Money Bank: Empirical Evidence

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Introduction. The Organization of Economic Corporation and development (OECD) paper defines corporate governance as involving “a set of relationships between a company’s management, its board, its shareholders, and other stakeholders. Corporate governance also provides the structure through which the objectives of the company are set, and the means of attaining those objectives and monitoring performance are determined. Good corporate governance should provide proper incentives for the board and management to pursue objectives that are in the interests of the company and shareholders and should facilitate effective monitoring, thereby encouraging firms to use resources more efficiently”.

Aim of the study. The study objective is aimed at finding the relationship between corporate governance bank distress in deposit money banks. The research design adopted in this paper is the case study method, in other to have an intensive insight of the subject matter. Primary data was used specifically the survey technique. The method that was used in the presentation of data in this study is the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) which contains all the necessary and important statistical technique for data analysis. For testing the hypothesis, correlation analysis which measures the degree of relationship between variables was used to analyze the result generated from the questionnaire. The evidence shows that corporate governance has no significant improvement on the prevention of bank distress but has significantly improved the performance of the Nigerian banking sector. We therefore recommend that banks should demonstrate strong internal policies to identify and manage conflict of interest and zero tolerance posture against cases of unsound corporate governance practices.
Keywords: Corporate Governance, Bank Distress, Code of Conduct, Pearson Correlation

2013

A typology of organizational cultures in terms of improvement of the quality management

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Introduction. More and more frequently it is believed that quality management improvement is influenced not only by the so-called „hard” management aspects, but also by the „soft” ones, such as organisational culture or leadership. In this publication the results of studies conducted within the framework of a research project devoted to the influence of organisational culture on quality management improvement have been presented.

Aim of the study. There is in the paper, the analysis of research conducted by author’s carried out under the Higher Education Grant. There is an original typology of organizational cultures in terms of improvement of quality management. Organizational cultures were divided in their four types: the culture of pro-quality (success), avoidance culture, culture of conservative (stiff) and the culture of enforced changes. The study focuses especially on the culture of pro-quality, for which it had been a detailed characterization.
Keywords: quality management, organizational culture, pro-quality culture, cultural dimensions