People all over the world have cultures; and these cultures determine how they perceive world; think about themselves their relationship with others; set achieve goals. Culture defines sets before a people what is real not real; true untrue; right right; beautiful, good. The Yoruba in South-Western Nigeria, worldview concerning various aspects of life. It well meant that this study investigates...

This study assessed goal-setting and task performance among Nigerian managers. Data were collected from 521 subjects including 176 Yoruba, 147 Igbo and 198 Hausa/Fulani managerial employees in Lagos, Nigeria. The relevant scales of the 57-item questionnaire designed by Mendonca and Kanungo (1994) were used to obtain measures of the dependent variables. Mean scores in goal setting and performanc...

doctors and clients sometimes experience interactive clashes during hospital meetings in south-western nigerian hospitals because of their divergent culture-constrained orientation to politeness cues. the goal of this paper is to unpack the discursive elements that characterize interactive confluence and divergence in selected consultative encounters in the hospitals. the findings indicate that...