Abubakar S Yushau Alfakoro*, Yahaya Aliyu Ismaila and Abdul Hadi Ayodeji
DOI: 10.37421/2223-5833.2021.11.416
Overtime, the social media as contributed to the development of citizen’s participation in government, as it has the potentials to create public awareness and interactions between people in a simple form and different means. Majority of citizens are users of one form of social media or the other in which they interact on daily basis and Nigeria have been experiencing bad leadership, corruption, and economic problems due to bad governance without citizen’s consensus and consent. The objective of this paper is to access the role of social media on consensus and consent building in governance as citizen’s full flagged participation will guarantee accountability, transparency and responsiveness in government. The paper made use of secondary sources of data. The paper recommends that free access to information, responsible journalism and citizen’s participation will aid in governance building.
Neha Gangwar* and Sivana Andrea D’Costa
DOI: 10.37421/2223-5833.2021.11.418
The onset of COVID-19 in 2019 brought with it a slew of issues at the personal, economic, social, and mental levels. COVID–19 has proven to result in increased stress, loneliness, anxiety, and depression particularly among people already dealing with health issues. While the impact of the virus has been studied extensively, the impact of the one variable of working from home especially in a country like India with a predominantly rigid culture has been missing. Hence, the research focused on understanding the relationship between working from home and stress as well as burnout among full-time employees, particularly in the millennial age band. The research found that there is a strong positive correlation between stress and burnout where an increase in one leads to an increase in the other as well. The research also found that gender differences exist, but this is particularly in stress levels with women reporting that they feel more stressed out than their male counterparts. The research also observed that the working from home experience has been a mixed bag of ups and downs for mist however, 80% of people are still keen on continuing to work from home for at least a part of the workweek even post coronavirus.
DOI: 10.37421/2223-5833.2021.11.417
Employments have risen as a vital subject in the advancement plan of most national governments and a few worldwide associations in the course of recent decades. In the created nations, tenaciously high and expanding joblessness rates have offered to ascend to restored worry for occupation creation, while in many creating nations profitable business is viewed as a method for neediness lightening. As of late, the procedures of globalization have likewise brought about specific patterns in labour advertises in both the created and creating nations which have increased the enthusiasm for the suggestions on work of universal exchange and venture streams. In created nations, concern has been raised over the movement of employments due to redistributing and moves of cash-flow to creating nations. Then again, in the creating nations, fears have been communicated of dislodging of labourers in the up to this point ensured segments because of worldwide challenge. Anxieties have additionally been raised about the probability of an expanding number of specialists getting utilized in generally poor states of work, on low wages and without government disability, because of the businesses 'quest for cost decrease' so as to stay focused, along these lines prompting what is regularly named as the 'race to the base' in regard of work principles. The issue has along these lines accepted worldwide measurements and handling it would require universal activity. In the meantime, worldwide improvements will deliver their effects on the business circumstance inside the national economies. Likewise, it must be perceived that since the idea of the issue is significantly unique in the created and creating nations and has nation explicit measurements also, a substantial piece of the push to address the difficulty should be made at the national dimension. The Global Employment Agenda (GEA) was created by the International Labor Organization (ILO, 2003a) as a reaction to the above concerns and the test of meeting the objective of profitable and tolerable work for all. It is a piece of the technique to actualize the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially the objective of "splitting the extent of individuals whose salary is not exactly a dollar daily constantly 2015". Perceiving that business is principal in the battle against destitution and social avoidance, GEA urges governments, managers' and labourers’ associations, the private segment and common society to offer the need to full, unreservedly picked gainful work as the establishment for OK work in defining monetary and social approaches. The fundamental point of the Agenda is "to put work at the core of monetary and social arrangements". ILO sees the Agenda as a piece of its more extensive objective of Decent Work, similarly accentuating the advancement of business openings and enhancing the subjective components of work. Nature of occupations is seen both as far as efficiency and states of work. Enhancing profitability is essential to business, particularly for the ‘working poor’ that comprises a vast piece of the workforce especially in creating nations, and, in this manner, requires being the focal concentration in any neediness lightening methodology. Recognition of center work principles as a component of the states of work is seen both as a flat-out the necessity of decent work just as profitability improving variable.
DOI: 10.37421/2223-5833.2021.11.e113
DOI: 10.37421/2223-5833.2021.11.e114