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Business culture is not just about how others see a business but also about how the individuals within an organization understand it. The cultural perspective has become popular in business studies because it offers a way of explaining performance and understanding differences. FACTORS THAT SHAPE THE CULTURE OF A BUSINESS The Influence of a dominant leader- The vision of management style and personality of the founder or leader in a business often has a significant influence on the values that the business tries to promote. The history and tradition of the business; how things have always been done and why. Which industry or sector the business is in and how much and what type of competition it faces. The customers of the business, who they are and what they expect. Company expectations; based on a large extent on past performance. The types of information and control system used. The legislation and wider business environment. The procedures and policies within t...

In 2011, Nigeria was ranked number fourteen in the Failed States Index, just below other “havens of stability”-Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iraq! State failure has many definitions, so I will bother the reader with only two short descriptions relevant to the Nigerian situation: [A failed state] is one that is unable to perform its duties on several levels when violence cascades into an all-out internal war, when standards of living massively deteriorate, when the infrastructure of ordinary life decays, and when the greed of ruler overwhelms their responsibilities to better their people and their surroundings. [Failed State are seen in] instances in which central state authority collapses for several years. Economic deprivation and corruption produce and exacerbate financial and social inequities in a population, which in turn fuel political instability. Within this environment, extremists of all kinds particularly religious zealots and others political mischief makers...

Gossip is one major character exhibited by a lot of us unknowingly because most of the time we did not intend to gossip but we find ourselves like involuntary actions doing it. Gossip operates in every sphere of life but most common is the gossip within the workplace or the business arena. Unlike some measurable attitude problems, gossip cannot be measured because nobody would agree that he or she is a gossip, therefore finding out the actual statistics of the population that gossips is quiet difficult. Gossip in recent times has been attributed to the women because of their verbal power, they said “Men think and Women gossip” but that is not the case now because we have also discovered that men also gossip even from the pictrue below. So what would you say about that? Now we begin to understand that gossip is not the resultant effect of verbal power but an attitude problem that has the capacity to influence anyone regardless gender. Gossip is groundless, baseless idle talks an...