Abstract:
Small scale industrialization plays a critical role in the process of economic development and is a fundamental policy objective 1n most developing countries. It is estimated that small enterprises constitute. greater percentage of the nation’s business and produce about he If of its gross national products. However, in the heat of the ongoing economic recession, the collapse of smell-scale enterprises has created considerable concern in Nigeria. Such collapse are usually traced to Managerial inadequacies. This project report intends to study the existing Managerial practices in selected small scale industries in Aba town of Abia state in order to highlight the existing managerial inadequacies in such industries. The study will also endeavour to find out the causes of these menagerial inadequacies and then recommend possible sustainable menageriel strategies for small scale industries survival. In the course of the study, three research questions were asked:
(e) What are the areas of existing menagerial inadequacies observed in small scale industries?
(b) What are the possible causes of such managerial inadequacies?
(c) What plans were made in the past or are being presently put in place to arrest such possible causes? Observations, personal interviews and questionnaires as well SPSS data collected from review of related literature and available documents were used to provide answers to the above stated research questions. Simple random sampling which ls considered as the most bias free selection process was used in this project research
