Journal of Human Resource Management

Special Issue

Leadership and Sustainable Human Capital Development

  • Submission Deadline: Jun. 10, 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Idongesit Eshiett
About This Special Issue
The development of human capital is conceptually the mechanics for transforming human effort both physical and mental into productivity and overall organizational growth. To achieve sustainable advancement and economic development, human capital theorist has advanced the need to motivate and train organizational personnel that could fit effectively and efficiently into set task, goals and objectives. The inherent challenge of illiteracy and unskilled human capital is one of the vital problems besetting the Nigeria university system from competing effectively with its peers in other parts of the world. This study will assess how Leadership could develop the Universities through effective and dynamic human capital development as the supposed ‘think tank’ of industrialization, overall economic growth and sustainable development. The study will make use of descriptive survey technique as instrument in analyzing and interpreting the study outcome. The findings will be expected to reveal that there is direct relationship between leadership and sustainable human capital management in Akwa Ibom State University, Nigeria. The summary, conclusion and recommendations of the study will be based on the outcome of the findings of the study which will be on the need to train and retrain human capital to enhance all round growth in the university system and the national economy at large.
Aims and Scope:
  1. Leadership
  2. Human Capital Development
  3. Sustainability
  4. Training
  5. Productivity
  6. Entrepreneurial Development
Lead Guest Editor
  • Idongesit Eshiett

    Department of Marketing, Faculty of Management Sciences, Akwa Ibom State University, Uyo, Nigeria

Guest Editors
  • Adekemi Ekanoye

    Department of Management, New Orleans University, New Orleans, United States

  • Silvia Stein

    Psychophysiology Laboratory Project Manager, Vernadsky Federal University, Spokane, United States

  • Abubakar Mukhtar

    Department of Business Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

  • Dr. Marcus Garvey Orji

    Department of Business Administration, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria

  • Oto Eshiett

    Department of Business Administration, ICT University, Yaunde, Cameroon