Who we are
UNIZIK Business School, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, is a
newly
established school with a vision of breaking new grounds in Business and
leadership training,
and, becoming a management centre of excellence. Its vision is to
galvanize the plethora of
businesses and leadership talents that abound in emerging
economies such as ours,
properly re-orient and galvanize them towards assuming
respectable global position, while
contributing to the improvement of local business
environment.
Globally, as well as locally, the socio-political environment of business is becoming
more
intriguing and complex as businesses continue to face diverse problems that
require
Business Schools with the right mind-set, knowledgeable faculty, to act in
unusual ways, as
they deploy new theoretical models, strategies and best practices to transform these
businesses and give them sustainable lease of life. Today, Nigeria,
over the years has been
steeped in economic and socio-political crises, including but
not limited to, the problems of
decreasing productivity, collapsing companies and businesses, poor liquidity ratio and
declining value of the national currency,
hyperinflation, growing unemployment, scarcity of essential food items, widening
poverty in the land as more than 65 percent live below the poverty line. All of these
seemingly complex problems which are situated in the business, economic and sociocultural
landscapes require multi-disciplinary interrogation. Indeed proffering
solutions to these problems may demand the jettisoning of existing paradigms and the evolution of new insights about how to effectively organise, and motivate people, how
to build sustainable businesses, and how to be
entrepreneurial.