Organizational Culture in a Changing World

The idea of change can be deeply disturbing, unsettling and worrisome. Yes, it is! Often, organizations prefer the comfortable and familiar paths which have helped defined their past, amid huge successes or less. The illusion that an organization can stand still while the rest of the world is in constant motion is just that-an illusion. The imperative for change becomes much more critical since every organization exists within the parameters of time, geography, culture, among others.

Every organization is exposed to the dynamics of external and internal forces, which are also subject to change. The external forces being political, economic, socio-cultural, legal, environmental and technological realities, as well as, internal forces - wherein lies organizational culture.

Entrepreneurship Development Programme In Higher Education: A Nigerian Perspective

Entrepreneurship education serves as a panacea to social economic problems. The present situation in Nigeria posed serious threats and challenges to both government and well meaning citizens. These socio-economic problems call for different strategies and action for it to be ameliorated. Entrepreneurship education has been embraced by almost all the developed countries and its capabilities and efficacy in springing up economies is not in doubt. It is believed that refocusing education system will immensely contribute in developing the spirit and culture of entrepreneurship in country. The methodology here involves review of the current situation especially existing education policies and highlights the need for departure by studying some models that can be applied. It was discovered that the current education system is deficient in providing the necessary impetus for development. It also finds out that same problems keep escalating despite various efforts by the government to review policies and programmes in the past. The uniqueness of the paper is providing entrepreneurship education framework as an explanation of what and how it should be rather than what it is. It also challenges policy makers on the need to refocus their policies in problem solving rather than maintaining the status quo.