AN EVALUATION OF OPERATIONAL STRUCTURE OF INSTITUTIONAL CONSULTANCY SERVICES IN FEDERAL POLYTHECNIC NASARAWA.
AN EVALUATION OF OPERATIONAL STRUCTURE OF INSTITUTIONAL CONSULTANCY SERVICES IN FEDERAL POLYTHECNIC NASARAWA.
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2008-08
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MUHAMMED, TANIMU
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Abstract
The dominant intellectual view point on the subject of Institutional
Consultancy Services conceive it as basically service Unit, established to
help generate funds, provide additional income to increasingly impoverished
academic as well as non academic staff and transmit spin-off knowledge and
professional services to government and the productive sector of the national
economy. The study was therefore, undertaken to evaluate administrative
structure and functions of consultancy services units, which is centred on
service delivery, using Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa, NASPOLY Consult
Limited (N. C. L.) as the focus from its inception to date.
Given this objective, it was hypothesized that:
(a) the incorporation of the NASPOLY Consult Limited into the
administrative structure of the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa has
negatively affected the service delivery of the unit;
(b) lack of clear operational guidelines, insufficient financial and
managerial autonomy are the major causes of poor performance, and
(c) an effective performance of NASPOLY Consult is impeded by lack of
qualified personnel that can effectively and efficiently discharge the
functions of the outfit.
Documentary research and survey method were employed in data
collection and the three hypothesis tested were accepted. This means that
inappropriate structure, lack of clear guidelines, insufficient finance and
managerial autonomy and lack of qualified manpower impeded the
attainment of NASPOLY Consult objectives.
It was therefore, concluded that the present system of running
NASPOLY Consult limited as an appendage of public service structure of
the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa will continue to affect performance
tremendously.
Based on this conclusion, recommendations were made with a view to
removing the structural defects and manpower constraints which have been
hindering the realization of its objectives.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POST GRADUATE SCHOOL IN
PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER IN PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION (MPA)
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA.
AUGUST, 2008