LAWAL BAMIDELE

The study goal was focused on examining the impact of social media use on interpersonal relationships among couples. In achieving the study goal, specific objectives were developed that include: investigating the opportunities and potential problems created by social media usage on interpersonal relationships among couples; assessing the preference for social media on interpersonal relationships among couples as a means of communication; and ascertaining the impact of social media use on interpersonal relationship among couples. Adopting the survey research design, the primary source served as the means of gathering the study's data. Data collected from respondents using a questionnaire was then used for additional analysis. This study also used the snowballing sampling technique. From the entire population, 110 people who are or have been in relationships were chosen as a sample using the snowballing method, though 109 respondents actually competed the questionnaire. The questionnaire, which allowed for the collection of data from respondents, served as the survey research instrument. Utilising both descriptive and inferential statistics, the study found that among other things, distraction was the common factor that affected couples that are engrossed in the use of social media. The study therefore concludes that some of the challenges arising in interrelationship among couples and affect their relationships include distraction, easy communication, sharing of information, staying connected, entertainment and suspicion of distrust. Despite recognising some benefits, the study recommends that couples should be open to each other despite on the extent of the use of social media.

This study was done to examine the impact of Human Resource Outsourcing on the organizational performance of different micro-finance corporations. Specifically the objective was to firstly determine the relationship between outsourcing human resource and organizational profitability of the micro-finance corporation, and to also find out whether outsourcing human resource leads to increase in profitability of different micro-finance corporation. The study used the descriptive survey because the data needed for this study is of primary nature and the sampled elements and the variables under investigation are to be observed without any attempt to control or manipulate them. This is a process where data are collected from the sample population through questionnaire. And with the help of Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22.0 on the completed questionnaire to assess the relative strength of response to each of the items on the questionnaire.
The findings revealed that there is a relationship between Human Resource Outsourced (HRO) functions and organizational performance and reasons for outsourcing Human Resource functions in your organisation include: to provide human resource service which your organization cannot provide, ensure effectiveness in the human resource services/activities, save money to reduce operating cost, to have access to talent and expertise, streamline human resource service, make up for reduction in HRM staff, and ensure compliance with standard. This study recommended that management of micro-finance corporations could outsource their Human Resource function to ensure they are able to focus on core functions in the organization and that it also helps to measure Human Resource functions.

The broad objective of this study is to examine the effect of organizational learning on employee performance among selected employee in Edo state. The geographical scope of this study is Edo State of Nigeria. The employees in the University of Benin form the population of the study. This study employs the cross sectional survey research design. The population of this study is made up of all teaching and non-teaching in University of Benin, in Benin City, Edo state. Primary data are obtained from personal interviews and the use of questionnaire to concerned individual. The major instrument used for data collection during the research is Likert type questionnaire. Based on this, the study revealed that there is a relationship between shared vision and improved employee performance; there is a relationship between transfer of knowledge and employee performance; there is no relationship between team learning and employee performance and; finally, there is no relationship between system thinking and employee performance. The study recommended that training in the discipline of strategic thinking is recommended, along with the focus of building synergy by creating teams in the organization.