CHAPTER ONE
There many theories or how and when government came into an
existence the origin of government has over the year generated much
controversy. Some people have argued that the constitution of the state or
government originated from the will of God. (The fall of man in the Garden of
Eden). The force theories where by the strong imposed their willupon the weak,
the social contact (by which men consciously established government) the family
(the pantriachal or matriarchal model, the class struggle the Marxist
explanation and processes of evolution) the government having developed like a
living organism etc.
The ideal government is for managing the affairs of the
whole society. The society conpase of bourgeoisies, the artisan, the tecnocrats
the peasants or the masses. All are in an effort of making the society worthy
of living for it citizing.
The
government has the power to make law and enforce them with all the mean of
collusion it care to employ. This could be upon individuals, clubs or
association, companies or industries within its area of jurisdiction.
The set of rules or regulation made by government to
control all spheres of the society it governed could be found stated in its
policy like government policy, foreign police, education policy and socal
policy etc. the position of any government on any matter can easily be
acquainted will through the study of its policies.
Generally speaking, government policies are means to set
standard of operation procedure. A policy is designed to facilitate strategy
implementation and how to counter act tendencies for part of the organization
to resit or reject the chosen strategy.
At this juncture therefore this research work aims at bringing to limelight
the effect of government policy on private enterprises with much emphasis on
global soap and detergent industry Asa-dam area Ilorin Kwara state.
1.2 THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The aims and objective of the study are to
give detailed information in respect of effect of governmet policy on Global
Soap and .
The study is also to analysis the effort of government policies on the industry
and the people. The study is also aimed at bringing forward instrument of
government economic policies and their uses.
1.3 DEFINATION OF RELATED CONCEPT
The definition of concept in this section are important for
through understanding of this study.
GOVERNMET: Is the agency through which the will of state is
formulated expressed and realized. It included the study sum total of the
legislature, executive and judiciary bodies in a state.
POLICY:
Help to shape the character of the internal work climate are to translate the
cooperate philosophy into how things are due how people are treated and what
the cooperate achieves and attitude means terms of everyday activities. At knee
is a local raw materials used for the production of good at global soap and
detergent industry. They substance is source or got from the petroleum product
or chemical. These relate policy concept can also be defined in the ways.
A. FISCAL POLICIES: is the used of government
revenue and expenditure policy to influence the level of economic activities.
Government revenue is the income that accures to the government while
expenditure is the form in which the mony is spent. Hence, both the revenue and
expenditure are opposite side of the balance sheet called government budget on
much occasion government may deliberate through fiscal policies implement
budget deficit or surplus in order to influence the level of economic
(business) activities. In a case where government inplement budget deficit it
is usually done to reduce tax increase government spending and subsidies firms
so that more employment demand and money in circulation will increase and this
will effect business firm positively (all this is due to curb deflation) on the
other hand when government implement budget surplus it is done to increase tax
reduce government spending and increase subvention paid by firm so that demand
will reduce, employment will reduce money supply in circulation will reduce and
this will affect business firm negatively ( all these done to curb inflation)
B. MONETARY POLICY: This is also a government
policy that affect business venture. The government use to regulate money
supply in the economic. This is done through central bank instrument which
include: bank rate open market operation, spear directive, liquidity ratio
selective controls etc. all these tools are properly defined and explained in
chapter four (4).
C. PHYSICAL POLICY: This is the use of wages and
salaries paid to worker to influence the level of economic activities. This is
done by the government fixing minimum wages and salaries to be paid to workers
and other individual and private company. This is also done to control the
money supply in the economy. Government fixed a high minimum wages to increase
money supply it equally increase demand and this effect business firm
positively through increase fixed their minimum wages to reduce money in
economy this negatively through decrease in money in circulation.
1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
These studies focus attention on the effect of government
policies on the Global Soap and
.
The work shall also gives details on the attempt made by
the authority of Global Soap and Detergent Industry Ilorin to adjust and
control the general effect of government policy on their marginal profit and
the customers
1.5 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Data collection in any project work or research of this
nature is very important to the researcher as well reader.
To enable the researcher to collect
adequate data needed for this studies and to obtain very reliable information
the researcher conducted interview to some key officer of the company among
such officer are managers operation manager production manager mechanical and
manager personnel.
1.6 SOURCE OF DATA
PRIMARY
DATA: information of varying degree of
usefulness regarding effect of government policies on global soap and detergent
industry was collected through personal interview to form the primary data for
this research work. Personal interview are conducted through pre-planned
questions ask for conducting the researcher in different department.
SECONDARY
DATA: apart from the information gathered through personal interview other
materials were obtained from the company at Asa-dam road in the course of carrying out this
research work. For security reason we were not permitted to photocopy
materials.