ABSTRACT
Co-operative society was
introduced into Nigeria in 1935.The objective include the pooling of sources
together to achieve common goal and the substances of rural economy through
marking fund available to the enterprising rural populace.
However, members have
been too much reluctant over the service offered to them by these co-operative
societies, especially in Oji-River local Government Area of Enugu state.
There is need to ensure
effective and efficient management system in order to realize the aspirations
of its member, for this reason, management system of Oji-River cooperative
supermarket and the full participation of its members constituted the core of
this research work. The research dealt with preliminary studies and statement
of the problems, purposes, scope and significance of the study were properly
treated.
Furthermore, history of
co-operative movement in Nigeria, importance of co-operative movement in rural
development was covered. The research used both questionnaire and face to face
interview method in data collection
In addition, the research
highlighted problems and prospects as it concerns to co-operative education,
marketing and production some of the problems besetting effective management
system of co-operative supermarket Oji-River, not only emanated from their
functional constraints and lack of orientation and massive education of member
and staff but all due to poor accountability by the leaders, with respect to
fund handling.
PREFACE
Organization constitute
one of the major components of society. They are usually formed to meet objectives
which can best met collectively whenever people embark upon group activity,
management problems are bound to arise. Thus concern for the effectiveness of
our organization should also lead to
concern for
effective management.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
BACKGROUND OF STUDY
1.2 STATEMENT OF
THE PROBLEM
1.3
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE STUDY
1.5 SCOPE OF THE
STUDY
1.6 LIMITATION OF
THE STUDY
1.7 RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
1.8 RESEARCH
HYPOTHESIS
1.9 DEFINATION OF
TERMS
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 meaning and
definition of co-operative society
2.2 A brief history of
co-operative movement
2.3 Cooperative in
Nigeria
2.4 Kinds of cooperative
societies
2.5 Structure and
organization of cooperative movement
2.6 The role of
government in cooperative development.
2.7 Theories of
cooperative movement.
2.8 Meaning of
cooperative as a business venture.
2.9 Importance of
cooperative in rural development.
2.10 Sources of finance.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH DESIGN AND
METHODOLOGY
3.1
RESEARCH DESIGN
3.2
AREA OF STUDY
3.3
POPULATION OF THE STUDY
3.4
SAMPLE AND SAMPLING TECHNIQUES
3.5
INSRUMENT FOR DATA COLLECTION
3.6
VALIDITY OF THE STUDY INSTRUMENT
3.7
METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION
3.8
METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS
AND INTERPRETATION OF
DATA
4.1
ANALYSIS OF DATA TO THE COOPERATIVE SUPERMARKET OJI-RIVER
4.2
ANALYSIS OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE TO THE COOPERATIVE
4.3
TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS
CHAPTER FIVE
FINDING RECOMMENDATION
AND CONCLUSION,
5.1
FINDINGS
5.2
RECOMMENDATIONS
5.3
CONCLUSION
REFENCES
INTERVIEW GUIDE
QUESTIONNAIRE
“A”
QUESTIONNAIRE
“B”
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Cooperative movement is
by and large a product of the altered socio-economic condition brought about by
industrialization and a better farming economy in many of the advanced
countries as well as the developing countries. Cooperative movement is designed
to bring independent persons together for the betterment of their economic
condition.
Cooperative I one or the
other, have been used for effective in one form or the other labour,
combination of Agro-industrialization development programme with the aim of
promoting more egalitarian distribution of economic growth in all communities.
Hence, the slogan “ self help through mutual help” by cooperators.
The government of a
country has been helping in the formation of cooperative societies, since it is
a way to improve the economic as well as the standard of living of the
populace; Greater emphasis has been laid on rural development and self
dependency and sufficient in food production.
In Oji-River Local
Government Area Enugu State and in Nigeria as a whole, Urbanization for
instance is taking place at a rap rate owing to a variety of such factor as
Immigrations growth of industrialization and high rate of population increase.
These rapid Urbanization bring in it’s wake several problems for industrial
workers and other fixed income earners who also have to compete for
commodities.
In developing countries,
scarcity of commodities leads to high degree of adulterated products and high
prices. In this case, cooperative societies has to ensure adequate supply of
commodities, anticipate members demand, buy commodities in required quantities,
ensure that selection and quantities of commodities selected are in accordance
with the consumer taste and cooperate in an efficient manner at the prevailing
margin to build up enough capital for future development.
These task call for a
high degree of management skill and development of proper organizational
structure and system that ensure efficient operation.
This research therefore
tend to improve the extent of which his subject organization has been able to
apply the main techniques of business management with the view of identifying
the area for improvement.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE
STUDY:
Onwukike M.J.C in his
lectures titled “ structure and organization of cooperative said that a
cooperative society is a business organization registered under the cooperative
society law. It belongs to people who own and use it’ services. It is also run,
financed and controlled by them for socio-economic benefits.
Management it self can
be defined as the process of designing and maintaining an environment in which
individuals, working together in groups accomplished efficiently selected aim.
As managers, people
carry out the managerial function of planning. Organization staffing, leading
and controlling. Management is concerned with productivity that implies
effectiveness and efficiency with the sole aim of creating surprise. This help
to rectify the problem of poor management in cooperative societies and to
mobilize the rural people to fully participate in socio-economic development.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE
PROBLEM
This success of any
cooperative society depends on the managerial ability of the executive and the
unification or cooperative of the members. Therefore, poor management planning
and market planning has being the case of Kerworm eating the productivity and
revenue generation of some cooperative societies. Another problem facing
cooperative societies is inadequate organizational structural and execution of
plans.
One of the problems of cooperative
societies is that most of the members are illiterate and some have never had
the opportunity to attend workshops, seminar or symposia on cooperative society
management.
Also inadequate and
effective allocation of funds to business ventures hinders cooperative
management.
Other problems include
inadequate capital, poor competitive position and poor communication management
strategies have caused a great failure in cooperative societies. This is the
case with cooperative society in Oji-River
1.3 PURPOSE AND
OBEJECTIVE OF THE STUDY:
The broad objective of
this research was to identify the problems in managing cooperative society.
However, the following specific objectives have been carefully delineated by
the researcher for achievement.
I
To identify
Ii
To find out
Iii
To determine
IV
To ascertain
V
To suggest ways of eradicating these problems
Another purpose is to
know the factors militating against the growth of cooperative societies and the
contribution of government in finding cooperative societies.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
STUDY:
The important of this
study is to meet the following demands:
1
To provide more available information to student of cooperative studies,
management and trainers in cooperative discipline and other who may be keen in
undertaking further research in cooperative management.
2
To make available to the government and operational and decision making tool
for efficient, effective and virile cooperative development.
3
Numerous cooperators in the state will be exposed in area to exploit business.
4
To help lectures in the cooperative field to teach properly.
5
To help the cooperators as well as the future ones on the area of planning,
organizing and business control to avoid liquidation.
1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
In Oji-River Local
Government Area, there are over 23 cooperative societies as at last year, over
85% of these societies lack effective management system. My study is therefore
limited to Oji-River Supermarket cooperative area as a representation of
problems cooperative society movement in Enugu State are Nigeria in general.
This research is limited
to Oji-River supermarket due to time constraint and limited space
Other restriction occurs
due to the attitude of the respondents that is their inability to give out
information about the cooperation society.
Another limitation arises
as a result of cost of transportation which was white exorbitant in buying text
book and research work.
Finally inaccurate
information supplied in the questionnaires and financial problem.
1.6 DEFINITION OF
TERMS
Cooperative societies: This is defined as a form of organization
where people voluntary associate together as human beings on the basis of
equity for the promotion of the economic interest of themselves.
Small Business:
Small business is defined as a type of business which the managers are also the
owners; they operate mainly in local areas with a limited size. According to
NBCI (Nigeria Bank of Commerce and Industries). It is defined as and industry
with capital not exceeding #750.000 including working capital but excluding
cost of land.
Share Holders: they are those that contribute the capital
used in established the business.
Cooperators: they are the member of cooperative societies
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| No of Pages | 84 pages |
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